@TheEternalBungholio @BowsacNoodle
I was watching early episodes, late 50's to early 60's, of the game show, To Tell the Truth, the other day.
https://wl.vern.cc/wiki/To_Tell_the_Truth?lang=en

There were group of actors that I normal expected to make more quips than ask actual questions to determine the real person of the three, like what you would see on future shows like Match Game, because the group hired by CBS, paid B-list actors and actresses, were not known for being the most intelligent of American society. The quipping did happen not at the level I expected. Despite the stereotype, the early panel were able to make questions that people today would never understand, like precise geography of Europe, knowing the nuance of Africa's animal population or specific terms of opera. And CBS at the time thought their audience was smart enough to allow that kind of hard knowledge gate to the primetime show.

It felt like I was watching a show from an entirely different country and entirely different people group who happen to speak English and not just from a show from a mere sixty years ago. How the hell did mass and collective intelligence decrease in that relatively short time? You cannot just blame this purely on immigration. It seems like your typical White normie has become more stupid as well, and I'm not exception. It doesn't seem to matter if you do public schooling, private, or homeschooling. Education and cultural diffusion has degraded all over.

I feel like I've been robbed of many better things that these people received. :jahy_sad: