As the world progresses, so does technology. As some countries progress, it's not so much their technology but their way of living that seems to grow and develop. Well not here in America. Listen guys...I know we have crazy computers. I know we are creating robots to do everything for us. I know hardly anything needs to be done by hand now. I have something to say about this, and I don't think I can stress this enough....THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE GETTING SMARTER. I can't deny that our technology is getting pretty darn amazing, but i do not believe this means we are getting more intelligent. We are getting lazier and lazier and the new technology are mostly things that make us think LESS. We as Americans think "well golly, we got to the moon and know about space and junk". Ok?...and this makes us smarter becuase? "well....not many other people can say this!" ...ok? and not many people can say they have 6 dicks...but does this make them more intelligent? What some of you don't know, is that other countries are much more developed than us. "BUT RYAN! We clearly have better things that are mass produced and we can buy!" Yes, this I know...I don't need to be reminded that we are consumer whores. Listen everyone...France has better health care than us, and can go home for lunch with their families while they are working. "pfft...but we don't have as many diseases and we have fast food and vending machines!" Yes, i realize that we have great condoms and are obese as hell, but France was able to figure out a way to save money or to somehow financial do all of this. What did we do...made the slap chop? added another pron site? figured out how to put a horse feeder on a human? Yeah, pretty much. Also, have you looked at TV? The new thing to get a laugh is getting kicked in the balls. The sad part is, I'm sure some of you laughed at just reading that.
Summing all of this up, the one way I can definitely tell we are getting super retarded is that we think we aren't! That's when you know you are stupid...when you are in denial. I mentioned in my psych class today that we are getting dumber. NOT ONE PERSON AGREED. But I did have like 3 people argue me saying that we are more intelligent. One girl gave an example that the kindergarten kids are learning things they should in first grade! Wow! And my professor said IQ scores are going up. OMG! Well there goes my whole argument....NOT. Listen...that's because other countries are already soooo much farther ahead than us. They are learning things in kindergarten that our 3rd graders learn. And IQ scores...who made the IQ test up? You can answer that yourself. Listen, if you don't think America is getting dumber, you have already fallen into the stage of denial and you help support my argument. So thank you for being an idiot =]
*this whole blog included myself since I am an American. Every one of these examples, you can count me being apart of.
For further explanation on this, watch the movie Idiocracy. It's more of a documentary than a comedy to me.
-Merwine
Wouldn't you admit that there's a gap in there, too, though? From being in Engineering here, I have a two-part definition to technology. The first is that it makes life better, and the second is that it makes life easier.
ReplyDeleteThe better part can be seen in the research that I'm doing right now (among many other experiments here and world-wide). If my team succeeds, I'm looking at breaking down the half-life of standard nuclear waste to mere minutes, instead of many years. That's solving a major issue with one of the solutions to an energy crisis. While that will have no direct use to the public, they're certainly going to benefit from it. Also, it's not something that anyone can just go ahead and do; the science and math behind it is (most of the time) mind boggling, and I find myself in need of a few beers to unwind after a day at the lab.
However, I'll agree with you on one aspect: for the part of technology that is aimed at making life more "convenient," we're losing that audience's intelligence level. Things have become aimed at making life "more convenient" so much, that it's true: people really would rather have a computer program do their entire job for them and get paid for it. However, someone had to know how to do it beforehand in order to write that computer program. The amount of science and engineering that goes into some of even the most simplest pieces of technology are QUITE complex, take my word for it: I've had the privilege of seeing some of this first-hand.
Although, that's not always true for all forms of this type of technology. I mean, to go to the extremes, to a caveman, a pencil is some real bad ass technology, right? Beats the shit out of a hammer and chisel, at least, and it seems to have been working pretty well over the years it has been technologically advanced, agreed?
Overall though, I think you were pretty much in the right by saying we're getting stupider, but I'd be curious to see what kind of audience was studied to get the results of the increased IQ scores. It's hard to compare our academics to that of academics in China. Ever see their academic schedules? Mind blowing.
Oh I fully agree with you lazer. I'm not saying EVERYONE is stupid. Trust me, there have been many amazing things done that was for the better of the world, people, environment, etc. I'm saying the majority is getting dumber. There will always be intelligent people. There will always be scientists that are like "wow...we should solve world hunger somehow" and NOT say "fast food chain!" What I'm saying is there are more scientists, inventors, etc. that are saying "well...i DO hate going to the fridge for my drink...let's solve that problem". There will always be intelligent people trying to fix things, i'm just saying the numbers of those people are definitely decreasing and the number of average joe's that a dumbasses are increasing.
ReplyDeleteYea, the mass public generally is getting progressively more retarded. You dont have to "know" anything. Hell, our phones are mini portable dictionaries. Convenient? Hell yes, but it also is giving a crutch to the person who stubbed their toe. Lazy people take advantage of the technology we are given. Soon kids wont even know how to look up a word in the dictionary. That is sad.
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