Ten years ago, Professor Mark Bauerlein published, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. The blame was put upon an over-dependence upon IT, reducing natural cognitive processing capacity such as memory. The bad news is that all the objective statistical measures, such as SAT scores, confirm this downward trend. And, the controversial Flynn effect, of supposedly growing IQs, has now ended, and IQ, like almost everything else, is going down the proverbial drain. This factor alone is enough to crash civilisation, since unlike ancient Rome, our world depends upon having a large number of higher IQ technicians to keep it ticking over and to allow the woke bs in the cultural sphere to continue. Also to supply food sand he modern womb-like life support system, to a people who have long lost the capacity to survive in any new frontier.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/23/the-dumbest-generation-has-gotten-even-dumber-10-years-later/
