stupid people nowadays? People seemingly cannot tolerate differences of opinion. People have no idea how to interact, meet, and socialize with other people? People who cannot find their a$$ with two hands and a mirror? What the hell is going on?

IMO there aren't.
IMO it would be more appropriate to ask "why are there so many inconsiderate, shallow, and selfish people nowadays?"


Go back to the beginning of civilization.
What are people doing?
They go around and form groups.
Groups form beliefs, culture.
Then they build walls and tell everyone else to go f themselves.
One tribe against another. One polis against another. One state against another. One country against another. Whatever.
Oh, the wars are so bad. Lets come up with some olympic games to compete and feel superior to those stupid people who aren't as strong, or fast as we are.
Our gods are better than your gods. My Cowboys can beat your Raiders.
My California libtopia is better than your repuklican Texass. My red state is smarter than all the dummies in your blue state.


People only really interact, meet, and socialize with other people when there is a continuing need and subsequent benefit to doing so. Community. Communal interdependence.

Have to be nice to bob the butcher when he's the only butcher in town, you go to the same events, he has the only eligible son for your daughter in your town, and when those stupid people come by to invade and cause war it's also in his best interest to defend his town which is defending you.

No real need to interact, meet, and socialize with that one guy that lives a couple blocks over whom you may have seen once, and you think may work as a teller at some bank you've never been to and don't have any idea who he's related to or knows and if there's war well just get on the interstate and run away and let those other strangers you've never met in the army deal with it.

If there's no real need to do something, people don't do it.
If there are easier alternatives that lead to fewer or less meaningful consequences, those alternatives will be adopted.

Of course you can go into other cultural changes like single parents, suburbanization, mobile populations, falling wage values and need for both parents to work, compulsory education raising children and indoctrination in producing consumer/production citizens, and things of that nature.


The American dream doesn't really have anything to do with a wife, 2.5 kids, a house with a white picket fence, and financial independence.
The American dream was always about the individual having the freedom to pursue individual potential.
So a farm boy that finds they're a prodigy with the violin could, with effort and work and will, exploit self generated opportunities to pursue playing the violin.

People may not need or want to be able to "find their a$$ with two hands and a mirror."

Thanks to utilitarianism and bad mothers we get "I just want you to be happy! Pursue your happiness!"

Does sitting around exploring your "a$$" with two hands and a mirror make you happy?

Probably not.

But you may be a genius at the fryolater. Maybe you know the best amperage and ratio of vegetable to peanut oil to produce the crispiest fry.
Or maybe you are the best in the office at correlating TPS report functions with 10-w23's for optimized horizontal integration in supply chain logistics.
Or maybe you found the best sniper rifle in Call of Duty.

If you were born and raised in the U.S.A. you have an implicit bias towards individual specialization and self importance.

That's what happens when you "pursue your bliss" or "joy."
That's what happens when you value individual merit and achievement, possibly based on individual competition.
That's what happens when you pursue a career. Or an education.

You specialize yourself. Your knowledge. Your abilities.

Group interaction requires a lack of specialization and a need for adaptability to different personalities.
The bigger the group or "community" (i.e. big cities with tens of thousands to millions of people, with people coming and going) the greater the need for adaptable flexibility.

Parents (theoretically) offer a consistent example of a successful relationship, an extension of the cultural values of the larger community, by which kids can use as a baseline in the development of their own personality which helps define relationships.

Do kids spend more time with their parents? Or with a bunch of random strangers, anymore? Do kids spend time developing relationships with the same small group of people teaching them the building blocks for new relationships with strangers? Or is there a push for constant diversity and new, novel, entertaining (titillating) experience without any real depth, necessitating a shallow facade? Or are kids pushed towards isolationist pursuits like video games and individual achievement?



There aren't stupid people.
There's just no real incentive (reward for doing so, or risk for not doing so) for them to continually apply their intelligence or specialized knowledge towards considering the sensibilities of strangers.

I agree with crystal .. I love technology and do not feel it has any impact on my ability to remember or to socialise . I love that any subject I am interested in is just a key press away . I am always reading and researching professionally and personally ..my life is busy .. the internet is a convenience I would not want to be without

A bit angry today? But I do agree with you that some people could
take a few lessons in how to be a decent person. Treat someone the
way you also would want to be treated, simple. You would think in this
day and age it would be so much easier to learn new things every day.
But people are too consumed with silly things. Facebook, dating sites,
celebrity gossip, (Who gives a rats *** anyway) I have no respect for
celebrities and all their millions who do nothing but live in their
mansions and do nothing to contribute to society.We are the stupid ones
for glorifying them. Instead of glorifying God. And wasting so much time
on things that do not matter.

You took care of that one Crystal

It's global warming. Peoples' brains are becoming overheated and are shutting down.

the education system has dropped the ball on things like reading comprehension and using logic

the instant gratification culture has created lazy thinking

the media has immersed the population in examples of bad behavior, impulsive living, and narcissism

stupid people nowadays? People seemingly cannot tolerate differences of opinion. People have no idea how to interact, meet, and socialize with other people? People who cannot find their a$$ with two hands and a mirror? What the hell is going on?

have also noted that a simple act of kindness now is treated as an exception...something that makes headlines...amazing!

stupid people nowadays? People seemingly cannot tolerate differences of opinion. People have no idea how to interact, meet, and socialize with other people? People who cannot find their a$$ with two hands and a mirror? What the hell is going on?