Super Nova wrote on Mar 3
rd, 2021 at 8:19pm:
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?
You first need to prove that your assertions are true and correct - they may not be. But for the sake of the discussion, let's assume they
are true and correct …
Then I'd ask two questions that are directly related to your wording and meanings in your OP, which is all one has to go by
1) Should the weak and less intelligent be encouraged to breed less to prevent the learned class having less number of children compared to those of the weak and less intelligent masses?, and If so …
2) Should technology be banned or made less "technical" so as to maintain the correct balance between the minority of "clever" people and the majority of the weak and less intelligent?
And a third question drawn from Question 2) ....
What would be the "correct balance", five learned folk to every one thousand weak and less intelligent folk? We'll need to know if we wish to have informed opinions
I'm sure there'd have to be lots of research to find out
Other than all that, if we are going backward, it's probably because we are self-interested rather than having purpose as a species. Having purpose would include planning the future, and that in turn doesn't have to necessarily mean worshiping high tech technology.
As far as high tech medical equipment goes, well what do you think of it, is it stupid for a doctor to send you for a scan? - probably not, so you might then think Medicare rebates and subsidized medicines are stupid, they are what keep people living longer, there's not so much money coming out of their pockets for treatment, therefore scans become financially possible for the weak and less intelligent to help them survive longer