Here ends the great human experiment.

IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries and that doesn’t bode well for humanity

This drop in IQ does not seem to be due to a single obvious factor, such as importing masses of dumb people. It seems to be occurring across the board, including within families. It seems that in advanced counties such as France and Norway… people are just plain getting dumber.

This would seem to be due to some mysterious environmental factor. The ones that seem obvious:

1: Modern food, water and air have something in one or more of them that saps IQ.

2: The rise of social media, the internet, and staring all day at screens for both entertainment and employment, along with the omnipresence of truly stultifying infotainment, is causing human brainmeats to atrophy.

3: Perhaps modern medicine and/or hygiene have gone too far in some way. Perhaps by artificially keeping the body clean and healthy, rather than in a constant struggle, entire systems are going into decline.

This rise is stupid can certainly explain the concurrent rise in the popularity of such mind-bogglingly moronic ideas as Antifa and Democratic Socialism, along with the revival of antivax and astrology. The biggest problem here is that the only way to get past it is to have intelligent solutions, and if the trend is towards less intelligence… we have an issue. And even if we cannot currently explain why the current populations seem to be in cognitive decline, there are a few things we *can* and *should* do: don’t speed the process up by importing masses of people who aren’t even as smart as out own dumb selves.

We could perhaps also try to come up with ways to inspire people to have smarter kids. Stop incentivizing stupid people to have kids would be a good start there.

Now this would be a *really* good time to make a solid, good-faith effort at interplanetary colonization. The only people who will survive *that* will be the smart ones. In space, no one can hear you be dumb because your corpse will be immediately fed into the recycler.