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do you think that over time humans will breed out smart people.
Darwin's survival of the fittest, naturel selection.
Closing Statement from Jack Aloise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgAvlEnGPc
joe rogan's stand up routine was the idea behind this argument.
He's got some neat theories check him out.
Thanks for your contributions and ideas they were legit.
take it easy,have a good one
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Allan Macdougall 30+
For instance, sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies would tend to be seen as successful traits and 'being smart', within a reality of acquisitiveness and materialism. It is seen as desirable and normal, despite it being broadly unsustainable. In this collective context, for 'smartness', actually read 'stupidity'.
Being smart is the ability to think outside that which is currently taken as normal. it is the ability to think how our actions affect others, our own living space and our own environment - without being blinded by selfish and base desires.
Acquisitiveness and materialism are related to capitalism, which is an ideal that is wholly dependent on the finite natural resources that sustain it. Therefore, 'breeding out smart people' in this (and similar contexts) WILL probably take place, but only as long as the lifeblood of a particular utopian ideal can feed it.
Natural selection takes thousands of years to affect our physiology and psychology, and would not have the time to take place. Therefore smart people will remain, some of whom might be labelled as 'mad' or 'mentally ill' by a society that despises their way of thinking.