Idiocracy

More and more people are beginning to realize that western culture is in serious decay, and that efforts need to be made to save it. Sadly, there really isn't that much left to save. A society can be loosely described to be made up of two components - culture and people. So let's see how each of those components are faring.

Let's analyze the people first. As I mentioned before in my previous article on Jews, I believe one of the reasons for their higher than average intelligence is the fact that they were put through a pretty tough natural selection filter. Although life for dumb people is usually more difficult than for the smart ones, being a dumb white person in Europe was usually survivable. Being a dumb Jew pretty much meant you were destined to be exterminated or starve to death. Without natural selection, or with natural selection severely restricted, entropy kicks in. And it is entropy's ultimate desire to turn us from more or less intelligent entities into a puddle of organic goo. We can see that the process is happening already, as the people of today seem to have significantly shorter reaction times than the people of Victorian era. Although IQ at the time was not yet devised as a way of measuring intelligence, it seems to amount to about a 14 IQ point difference. That difference is comparable to a difference between white and black people today. Or between this:

Primitive remnants of the dark ages

and this:

Modern marvels of vibrant societies

In other words, even if we save the white race of today, what we'll save is really not even close to what the white race was some 200 years ago. Yes, it's still better than being overrun by blacks, but the difference is decreasing abruptly.

Some may say that the society of today is technologically much more advanced than the one of the Victorian era, and that is something that really can't be argued with. But when one thinks of the great scientists of today and yesteryear, one can't help but feel the progress since that era is basically inertia. Large things take a long time to stop and turn around, the same theory that works for physical objects works for civilizations as well.

Even worse than removing natural selection from the picture, the society of today actually has inverse natural selection put in place. Stupid women are having nearly twice as many children as their intelligent counterparts, which means the Africans are about to catch up with us in several generations at most. At least the inequality issue will be made irrelevant by then. Overall health decline is happening as well, because advanced medical care dramatically increases survival chances of people who would previously die way before they had time to breed. While those on the left would be shocked at the cruelty and coldness of the statement, it unfortunately doesn't make it any less true.

We've been able to put off the collapse for a while by ramping up the amount of education the children get. Since the ability to function in a society is a factor of both nature and nurture, increasing one aspect of the equation could compensate for the drop of another. But as the overall intelligence level drops, it will prove to be impossible for the average person of today to achieve the level of functionality a Victorian person had, regardless of how much time and effort we put in their learning. The seeds of what will happen are already visible today, as the school standards are dropping significantly and people no longer even care about their children's education, only their emotional well-being.

Science is also on the fast track to become a shadow of its former self. Instead of being a cold and hard system designed to rationally observe the world around us, it is becoming a way to rationalize people's emotional desires and shortsightedness. People with an IQ score higher than ours realized that a lot of what is called science today is pretty much useless garbage, and could well be done away with.

So, if the people are barely salvagable, how is the culture doing? Well, let's use the first picture from the previous paragraph and compare it to something like this:

Less is more

While the Koeln cathedral is an obvious marvel of math, architecture, art, and design, the latter is, well, something a 5 year old child could draw and construct. Obviously, the zeitgeist of the time when the great cathedrals were built is no more. The zeitgeist of the west today is basically self-denial and a desire to ruin all that once made this civilization great. In other words, the western culture of today is something that should be eliminated with disgust instead of cherished and rescued.

Could we make a new society in the shape of an old one? We could most certainly try. And maybe we'll even succeed. But let's not fool ourselves into thinking that we need to stop at what we have today, and carefully built on it in the right direction. We're way too far at this point. What we need to do is discard almost everything that's been done society-wise in the last couple of centuries. We need to go back to the time before the French Revolution if we want stable foundations. Or even all the way back to the 12th century renaissance, when the actual foundations of science were first made.