The Great Stupening: Why I Believe Human Intelligence Is Plummeting and How We Can Salvage What’s Left

 I have watched for years as human cognitive abilities have spiraled downward. This is not a neutral observation. I believe we are witnessing a deliberate or systemic dumbing-down of society. The trust in once-respected institutions has collapsed to an all-time low, and the very concept of truth has become contested. As I have documented in my War on Cognition report, there are multiple vectors of attack targeting human neurology. The result is a population consisting of a large number of people who cannot think critically, reason independently, or even remember basic facts.

This phenomenon, which I call the Great Stupening, is accelerating. People who once could pass a driver's license test now struggle with simple arithmetic. The evidence is everywhere: plummeting literacy rates, the rise of emotional reasoning over logic, and a public that accepts any story spoon-fed to them by corporate media. The real question is not whether intelligence is declining, but why. And the answers are more disturbing than you might imagine. 

Smartphones and AI are enabling people to disengage their brains instead of thinking for themselves. I have seen MBA students outsourcing entire assignments to ChatGPT, turning higher education into a farce. The AI Paradox book correctly notes that AI can make smart people smarter, but it also makes stupid people more stupid. We are allowing algorithms to do our remembering, our reasoning, and even our moral deliberation....<<<Read More>>>....