Humans getting dumber: Really!?! Really!?!

[Star Man]

Stanford University author Gerald Crabtree reported in the journal Trends in Genetics (as reported in Steve Newman's "A diary of the planet" a feature of Funny Times, December, 2012) that humans are getting dumber.

The life and death challenges faced by early humans selected for the survival of the most intelligent. With the development of agriculture and the emergence of urbanization, there was no longer selective pressure for intelligence and no selection against intellectual inferiority.

* * * * * * *
Why am I not surprised at this finding? Let's see:

global warming which was (but probably no longer is) preventable;

overfishing the oceans that has reduced the fisheries to a level where they will no longer support human populations;

overpopulation of the planet requiring more resource consumption and resulting in greater and greater pollution -- a situation that also was preventable through widespread dissemination of contraceptive and reproductive information, actions that were successfully opposed by Christians and their corporate sponsors who require ever growing populations in the vain hope this will result in ever expanding markets and demand;

machinification of the planet resulting in drones, cell phones, autonomous military robots, an explosion of automobiles necessitating ever more consumption of scarce fuel to power cars rather than to warm homes;

corporatization of the government with commodification of elected office that has resulted in government becoming a tool to impoverish citizens and increase the wealth and power of the 1%;

mediafication of the population and commodification of entertainment through TV, video games, and meaningless movies glorifying violence with the result that humans have less and less capacity for entertaining themselves and less and less capability to relate to each other at the human level.

The results are visible to those who have eyes to see or ears to hear. The current Congress is a passel of empty-headed fools driven only by their own self-interest and the self-interest of the 1% and the corporations who support them. There is not one shred of compassion or devotion to the public among them (except for Elizabeth Warren). The populace has been focused on the end of the Mayan calendar, believing that mankind is facing an apocalypse. Guess what people, the apocalypse is not an event, it's a process, and it's been building and building for 50 years. All the people won't die at once, just like all the cave bears didn't die at once. We killed them one at a time, and then they were all gone. The apocalypse is not a bang, it is a deadly, irrevocable dribble.

Star Man

[Peace Voyager]

Stanford University author Gerald Crabtree reported in the journal Trends in Genetics (as reported in Steve Newman's "A diary of the planet" a feature of Funny Times, December, 2012) that humans are getting dumber.

The band Devo, was ahead of their time. It's short for de-evolution. In the words of Joni Mitchell "We've got to get ourselves back to the garden".