The Pyramids, the President and the De-Evolution of Intelligence

[CG6468]

The Pyramids, the President and the De-Evolution of Intelligence

I’ve long since come to realize that I ask too many questions. That seems to be the consensus. Too many questions for the comfort of other people. Too many questions probably for my own good.

Of late, I’ve been thinking about evolution theory. It’s far from proven in my reckoning. The gist of course is that humans have developed — evolved — from lesser life forms to become the intelligent species that we are today. With that idea comes the notion that we should be getting smarter by Darwinian rules.

But it seems more likely that the opposite is true. Instead of becoming smarter, I think we’re becoming stupider — we’re de-evolving. The way of the world seems to be that things wind down and fall apart. Why should it be any different with human intelligence?

Come back with me now in your mind to a time when children played outside, television was called “books,” and hamburgers tasted like meat.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t that long ago. And since the aforementioned changes occurred just within my own lifetime, I can’t help but marvel at what must be a vast and ever-widening gulf between our current generation and those in the far past.

I can recall when I was a child still in elementary school and, purely for the sake of some mental stimulation, I would ransack my father’s library and inevitably find myself curling up on the living room couch with a book by some author like Chaucer, Doyle, Poe or even the occasional Greek such as Homer.

Sometimes, inspired by books we had read on the subject, my friends and I would go hunting for “dinosaur bones,” which invariably involved what today would be unthinkable amounts of digging in the sunshine. Such activities were encouraged by our parents (except for the time we threatened to undermine the corner of my house) — and we actually dug out most of what eventually became a koi fish pond with the help of some additions from the adult “management.”

The insides of our various clubhouses (designated Bases Alpha, Beta and Gamma and used to fend off many foreign invasions) were decorated with pictures of airplanes, cars, monsters, scientists both mad and sane, and some mysterious equations generated from our many discussions of space, time travel and high-energy physics as we understood them at the ripe ages of 5 to 10.

I even recall having intense debates over whether Lancelot du Lac or Gawaine was the better knight and whether either of them could have bested the Viking Sigurd.

The point of all this isn’t merely to reminisce, nor to assert that we were any sort of geniuses. We were just normal kids for the time who liked to read, ask questions and indulge our curiosity, and it’s stood all of us from the old ‘hood  in good stead throughout our lives.

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Compared to the ancients, the modern Egyptians are little more than yammering barbarians, who thoughtlessly burned museums and plundered or smashed countless artifacts at the drop of a hat.

To destroy the pyramids would be the crowning achievement of such ignorant savages. And it’s all been encouraged up to this point by the man currently residing in the White House.

Libs have ruined this nation

[JohnnyReb]

And it’s all been encouraged up to this point by the man currently residing in the White House.

Hey, the man was born in Kenya, raised a communist Muslim in Indonesia, he's barely above a savage himself.

[CG6468]

And it’s all been encouraged up to this point by the man currently residing in the White House.

Hey, the man was born in Kenya, raised a communist Muslim in Indonesia, he's barely above a savage himself.

FIFY

[thundley4]

The Muslim Brotherhood will destroy the Great Pyramids in the name of Allah.  Obama will issue a statement deploring the action but saying that respect for other governments and religion is necessary. That is unless those governments are allies and nations of mostly Christians.

[CG6468]

They've announced that this is one of their goals.

[Freeper]

Oh yeah we are devolving, there are a lot of reasons for this, one is technology has replaced the need to think, if you have a question you simply type it into google and the computer finds it for you, you don't even need to know how to spell it right google will do that for you too.

Then you have the assault by the left on our education where 2+2=4 is no longer enough, we have to make sure that little Johnny feels good about himself and can put a condom on a banana.

Next we have the left who constantly tells  people that they can't make it on their own so why bother trying, just demand that the government step in and give you what you have been taught that you are owed. 

Then we punish those who achieve, we tax them at higher rates, we tell them every chance we get that they didn't build it, someone else did. 

So society has turned into a group of people who can't think for themselves and demand that the people who can, take care of them.

So perhaps getting rid of the pyramids isn't so bad after all, it would just be a monument to when people could do things, and that will just hurt the self esteem of people in the future, and we can't have that now, can we?