What EXACTLY is wrong with people today?

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CK76

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Today?

You read about the stuff humans did in the past? We're an odd breed, always have been.
 

Nebr66

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I think it's because a lot of people believe in the whole "least effort for the biggest output" way of thinking.
 

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SUPA FRANKY said:
After spending weeks viewing article after article of people doing stupid/disgusting shit, I just have to ask you all this. Where does it come from? Why do they fell the need to do such things? Is it because they want to stand out? Or their being influenced by something? Is it because of how we treat them?

Discuss.
Because people are people. For every nice guy there's one or two fuckheads. Just the way it goes I guess.

Also I don't care but quite a few Escapists dislike an OP ending with "Discuss"
 

faceless chick

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There was a (pseudo) scientific study that said "the total sum of the i.q. of humanity on the face of the Earth is constant, no matter how much the population grows"

Also a saying from my country "the mother of all idiots is constantly pregnant"

But on a more serious note, things haven't changed much.As it's been said, people have always been pants-on-head retarded, but they never stood out this much because there was no media reporting on every dumbfuck who castrated himself for a laugh.
 

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Monshroud said:
What exactly are you asking us to discuss? Please provide some relevant information on your topic. How about an example. We are not here for your personal entertainment.
DANCE MONKEY MAN! DANCE!

A few examples are, children wearing lingerie, People flat out suing anything that doesn't tickle their fancy. Dictators who don't let their citizens do shit, the existence of shows like Human Wrecking Balls and Jakcass...

Need I go on?
 

Linkassassin360

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This is nothing new. People today are not any worse then the first people. Its just that media has the power to record the bad things much more easily creating the illusion that only bad things happen. It doesnt help that everybody seems to love to watch that kind of stuff.....
 

Dorian6

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Well, in the U.S. the median IQ is 100, which means that half the population has a double-digit intelligence.

case in point http://www.baconnaise.com/
 

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Linkassassin360 said:
This is nothing new. People today are not any worse then the first people. Its just that media has the power to record the bad things much more easily creating the illusion that only bad things happen. It doesnt help that everybody seems to love to watch that kind of stuff.....
Yeah this is pretty much what I was gonna say in a nutshell.

Why is everyone always saying "now?"
"What happened to the world?"
"Why are people so dumb now?"

People have been and always will be morons. It's just who we are. So maybe it's not people being dumb, it's people being people. Humanity in general is dumb. Just now people are more public about it.

My opinion? Stop whining about people if you're not willing to do something about it. People have always been stupid, accept it and move on.
 

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Trust me the planet isn't endangered by scientists, it is endangered by the fuckwits who take a tiny scrap of science they don't understand and then try and use it for profit. If the LHC was made in Vegas for a casino sideshow the world would be doomed as it is these are people who can speak for hours, in your language, and you will recognise four out of every three thousand words. YOU not understanding is irrelevant, THEY understand.

STUPID is the danger NOT smart.
 

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Sir John The Net Knight said:
The only conceivable possibility to the actual truth of fears regarding 2012 is if the hippies running the world do something so inconceivably stupid that it destroys the planet.

Oh, wait...
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and how exactly is the Large Hadron Collider stupid and going to destroy the world?
 

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Dorian6 said:
Well, in the U.S. the median IQ is 100, which means that half the population has a double-digit intelligence.

case in point http://www.baconnaise.com/
Is this a real product?! If it is then I think it's a work of art and I wish to swim in a vat of it.

On topic - It's human nature that anything that can be done, regardless of how bloody daft it is, will be done by someone eventually. Usually with the reasoning 'for a laugh' or 'because I could'.
 

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The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker
 

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justcallmeslow said:
sizzle949 said:
It's because people being constantly called stupid and being asked what is wrong with them gives these individuals poor self-esteem so they act out to make themselves feel better.
From now on, I'm doing stupid stuff and that's my excuse.
That's how I only got 3 days detention in grade 8 when I urinated into some guys school bag