I also disagree that ppl have become smarter. There are many threads here on WF where we've talked about the intellectual decline of Mankind, but nothing explains why as well as the opening clip from idiocracy:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXRjmyJFzrU]Idiocracy Intro (HR titlovi) - YouTube[/ame]
Many studies have been done to track our "smartness" over time, but you already know it's true when you read any works from the 15th or 17th centuries... Those take MAJOR brain processing to simply read, even if you speak the language well. Imagine how hard it must have been for someone like shakespeare to Write like that?
I doubt we have anyone around today that could have processed the same amount of data & creativity as he did, way back then. And even the little people understood him enough to pay money to go see his plays.
Today? People don't pay for shakespeare plays... It's usually free and only attended by the most intellectual of art lovers. Meanwhile we pay to see hollywood movies that would make shakespeare think we all watch kindergarten-level shallow stories.
Remember; technology like the monitor you're reading this from isn't an indication of your societies' intelligence, it is simply a REPLACEMENT for it.
We're being enabled by technology to an eventual point of drooling retardation... Just like in Idiocracy.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXRjmyJFzrU]Idiocracy Intro (HR titlovi) - YouTube[/ame]
Many studies have been done to track our "smartness" over time, but you already know it's true when you read any works from the 15th or 17th centuries... Those take MAJOR brain processing to simply read, even if you speak the language well. Imagine how hard it must have been for someone like shakespeare to Write like that?
I doubt we have anyone around today that could have processed the same amount of data & creativity as he did, way back then. And even the little people understood him enough to pay money to go see his plays.
Today? People don't pay for shakespeare plays... It's usually free and only attended by the most intellectual of art lovers. Meanwhile we pay to see hollywood movies that would make shakespeare think we all watch kindergarten-level shallow stories.
Remember; technology like the monitor you're reading this from isn't an indication of your societies' intelligence, it is simply a REPLACEMENT for it.
We're being enabled by technology to an eventual point of drooling retardation... Just like in Idiocracy.