“If I left you alone in the woods with a hatchet, how long before you can send me an email?”

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It seems to me that the dumbing down process is a product of our ability to leverage the intelligence of progressively smaller pool of intelligent people – engineers and technicians etc. With increasing automation and efficiency, you need a progressively smaller pool of people who actually know how to think, and everyone else can let their brains atrophy. If this process is occurring on a global scale, and you are moving towards the maximum achievable automation,and your machines are getting cheaper to replicate so you don’t bother really fixing anything, you just swap out components, you eventually end up with a situation where you can keep society running with 0.1% of the population, and the other 99.9% can basically be mindless.

The intelligence of the human race might actually be increasing in this scenario, because you are increasingly leveraging the 0.1% who actually capable of problem solving, so you can create technnologies you could only dream of a few decades before. But average intelligence will be declining because it isn’t required for survival.

The obvious problem with such a society is that it is very brittle. There’s intelligence, but there’s no depth of intelligence. If anything ever happens to interfer with your systems for leveraging the intelligence of the few, you are screwed, because there is no redundancy in the system. It works until it doesn’t, and when it fails it is likely to fail catastrophically. And the most obvious threat to the system is that the 99.9% who don’t understand or care how they are dependant on the 0.1% for survival have a voice and a vote and will eventually break it.

It seems obvious that eventually there will be a crisis that creates a catastrophic failure. But from what I can see justice is not a big part of history, so I’m reluctant so say that this is going to happen soon. I think there is scope for the system to get a lot more crazy and unsustainable before it actually fails. It depends on what sort of shocks turn up in the next few decades.

Eye and Pyramid symbols are everywhere in the media and popular culture, politicians doing masonic hand signs etc.

Great read, and very apt metaphor of Eloi for the brainwashed manginas. So much potential (thus danger for the elites) squandered on desperately aping the herd for a whiff of pussy.

Thankfully it only needs a surprisingly few to actually get shit done.

BTW another clue-by-4 is still to be found here and there in what the ancients told, as far as it hasn´t been totally perverted by (deliberately)faulty translations.
Like the Christian original sin concept(though mainly a control-of-sex tool) or for example Chan/Zen´s teaching that it is the male that has THE CHANCE to actually attain so called Enlightenment.
A small important information that is of course strategically removed from the western circle(wankin´)-meditation halls.
Them bitches got too much money for that inconvenient truth.
And of course the wimminz on their ceaseless quest for the next greener esoteric pasture aren´t much too happy about it either, and write countless counter essays. Or rather their niggerz do.