As technology created by a minority of clever people allows the lives of the majority to improve and combined with the learned class having fewer children and the rest breed beyond their ability to support them, are we as a total species going backwards?

Our society and support structures allow the weak and less intelligent to survive and to outbreed those that make it possible.

Will stupidity grow and be the end of us?

Peace and prosperity within [successful] civilisations, also tend to bring with them, [envy and] widespread contempt for integrity.

Once integrity is lost, a civilisation will quickly fail.


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Yadda said somewhere.....
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“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
- The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis


Gallups bemoaned how someone can be called a racist and a bigot simply for loving “common sense, logic, reason and this nation.”
- Carl Gallups


"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- J. Krishnamurti


"Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey."
- Terry Goodkind / Bits & Pieces


"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
- Sallust / Bits & Pieces


"To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth."
- Anonymous


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Faith hears the inaudible, sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible."
- Bits & Pieces



Why It's Called Made In America

Principles to Live By - 1942
1.  You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2.  You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
3.  You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
4.  You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
5.  You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
6.  You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
7.  You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
8.  You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
9.  You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
10  You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.

William J. H. Boetcker, Presbyterian minister, 1942 Source: TruthOrFiction
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/lincoln-quotes.htm



"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Professor Dumbledore - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


There is nothing that is wrong, that cannot be remedied, by doing what is right.
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Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others do the same.
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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Jasin wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2021 at 10:26pm:


I am not so sure about that. In the past life was hard. Your chance of dying was high with death only a moment away. Even when we started civilization, most people lived hard lives, being bullied by their superiors or those with more muscle and power. I am sure this would have led to mental illness and passed off as them being weak.

I remember as a kid they called it a breakdown, now we call it a mental illness. A breakdown come with stigma.

Mental illness is not linked to us getting dumber. Stupid people don't know they need to be stressed about their future because they most times accept their lot and complain about those who have more than they do. Then just get on with their natural urges and produce babies without considering their chances for a better future.

Civilisation is like the centre of the Galaxy where everyone goes down that Black Hole in togetherness (and over-crowding).
H-G lifestyle is like living at the edge of the Galaxy where one can dissapear out into the void.

I try to live my life like where our System is situated.
Not in an over-crowded city, but not woop-woop in isolation.
I would say, our System is not even in the suburbs.
But somewhere regional, where a decent size town exists out in the country/rural - but only a short drive to another town.

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 6^th, 2021 at 12:01pm:


You both have brought up a very hard philosophical subject with your posts there. I'm a bit stumped on that too.

But it's worth looking into.

A Tribe (as recently seen on doco on NITV, but I forget the name of it) in South America would 'cull' their elderly and even infants if it meant compromising the survival of the Tribe overall.

Yet, to use an imaginary Tribe, that keeps it's Down Syndrome member alive and supports it - due to compassion (?), takes a harder path.
Look what happened to the 300 Spartans when they 'rejected' that flawed being that should have been thrown into the pit of imperfection.

I think (so far) that 'both' are right in their ways.

...gee, this one is a tough one. 

You both realise that this Topic could threaten the Nanny State that has evolved. 
Wonder what Aqua would say?

And Gandalf said "Because Bilbo gives me courage"

Super Nova wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2021 at 8:19pm:

What about the elephant in the room that everyone has missed.

The deliberate dumbing down of the population through the education system and the host of electronic data that we are all subjected to every day.

Keep the plebs busy so they are none the wiser.....

The_Barnacle wrote on Mar 8^th, 2021 at 9:52am:


Why isn't it?

When we're talking about the survival of the species, all subject matter is relevant to the discussion

Dumbing down of populations by "top-of-the-pyramid" hierarchies has made civilizations disappear, or be taken over by stronger civilizations

To-day, we have a global top-of-the-pyramid political hierarchy demanding that we all tow their political line. We get dumbed down to their way of thinking, and often punished for saying or doing anything different

Should the survival of the species be left in the hands of only a "God like" global hierarchy?

Remembering of course that single entity hierarchies, "dictatorships", both left and right, inevitably brought misery to their people

At the moment, we are all being asked, nay practically ordered, to follow global PC politics and thought processes. Even our democracies demand it now. "Single entity" hierarchies can be made up of various groups pitching in together, but are no less single entity - destroyer of dissension and destroyer of civilizations

To survive, there must be no "dictatorships" ruling over the masses. Generally speaking, the masses will ultimately work things out for themselves, with guidance perhaps, but certainly not with authoritarian dictatorial methods, regardless of who it's coming from, whether soft or harsh rulers