I am of the opinion that a large majority of the world population has the brainpower of a devolved chav, and cannot, or will not extend their intelligence past that. This is not a problem, people have always been like this. The problem rising is that more pressure is being applied on the internet, and it is becoming more and more obvious to everyone, including the chavs, that we're ****ing dumb as bricks, with little self-awareness. The older, 40+ year old generation in particular appears to be struggling with this point(from personal observation) as they relay opinions on Facebook as if they are talking to some small band of "lads and/or lasses" in a pub somewhere, clearly with conviction, but the problem here is that they are down to earth, and rather ironically, detached from the internet, or the virtual reality, as it were.
Funnily enough, it appears to me that the younger generation which has grown up in this environment appears to be much smarter than the older population, particularly the 18-25 age range, not because they are smarter, of course, but because they are more in tune with internet etiquette, and therefore more diplomatic and subversive about their posts, being careful to upset anyone in particularly, often going out of their way clarify this, unlike the older generation who seem to make grand, bold statements completely ignoring any information presented in news articles as either fake news, or another successful attempt by "The Man" to control the populace, and these get more upvotes because they are in line with populism. No-one ever says them in real life, but when it's on a computer for all to see, people get REAL ecstatic about it. These people rarely ever say anything like this in their every day life, and while the might believe what they write on social media, they are often far more caring in reality than their younger counter-parts, who in the real world they appear lifeless and vapid, but they don't live in the real world, they live in the virtual world, and that's where their expertise extends to.
That's my opinion. It probably has a bunch of holes in it, since I'm a dumbass in comparison to most in regards to philosophy, but I feel like I'm onto something here, but I cannot/have not fully develop/developed the idea.
