>>82248815
But here's the thing: a society having too many smart people is just as bad as having too many dumb people. And the big problem with society right now is too many smart people.
Think about it. In the olden days a tribe was made up of maybe an elder, a medicine man, a storykeeper, and several dozen morons to fuck, fight, gather and hunt their way to success. If the balance is out of whack, and too many people are medicine men, then what the fuck are you going to do with them all? You only need one. You have a bunch of smart but useless men sitting around taking up resources. And that's exactly what's happening now.
Like, I genuinely GENUINELY think the people who browse here are overall smarter than the rest of the population. But look at how useless their lives are. We can't just stuff everyone into a laboratory. We can't stuff everyone into a university. So we have this surpless of modern day medicine men who struggle with menial work, are racked with anxiety and depression, can't get laid, don't have any meaning in their lives, and who would be way better off if they were dumb knuckle draggers who could go into work, do a boring job, got to the pub afterwards and talk about sports and try to pick up.
Society is collapsing because we have WAY too many smart people. Not because we don't have enough.