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[–] 25140554? ago
I often wonder if there's only so much we can do when 95+ % of the population has an IQ under 130.
We'd need big changes if we wanted to fix anything...
[–] Masaze ago
It doesn't require society with 130 IQ, it requires western civilization, which requires an all white nation to function.
Although if you told me the average person from 100 years ago would now have a 130 IQ due to decreasing intelligence, I'd believe you
[–] Anson [S] ago
i kind of agree. The optimization of the European IQ bell curve is where it's at. Even if it's true that European IQ isn't the highest average, there's still something there that allowed us to beat everyone else. The explanation is probably to complex to verbalize quickly, as can be many multi-variable explanations
[–] 25140752? ago (edited ago)
Nah, but I bet the average intellectual from 100 years ago was rocking close to a 130.
That's what I meant, really. The average person goes to college these days. Since the average is low, intellectual endeavors suffer.
Then you get shit like this:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368
EDIT: As opposed to the average person not going, and only the exceptional furthering their education in that way... which is how they used to do it.
[–] AnotherGrayman ago
We're not going to change anything.
We're going to watch as morons and shitskins cause the next civilizational collapse.
[–] 25140719? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
As Jews cause the next civilizational collapse using morons and shitskins, but yeah, there's a decent chance of that. Sadly.
I've got some ideas so I'll try to fight against that outcome but... eh, looking at all the people here on voat who would rather fedpost than recruit - well it makes me worry about our chances.
Still, better to try and fail than to sit around feeling sorry for yourself and do nothing like a lil bitch, right?
[–] captainstrange ago
Probably this. The sovietization and collapse of the west.
The outcome isn't certain but it is leaning heavily that way in the long term.