Maybe this isn’t right, but I remember reading that most young boys 50 years ago dreamed about becoming astronomers, scientists, firefighters and policemen. Now young boys dream about becoming influencers, streamers, and rich personalities. Was Idiocracy written by a time-traveller? Are we working hard to make it a reality?
It was the logical and expected result from the current course of America…
But what people miss is that Idiocracy is always real for a surprising amount of people. Joe didn’t magically get smarter, his frame of reference stayed the same. But everyone around him became a lot stupider. We adjust IQ scores when they drift so the average is always 100 because of that.
And adjusting it at 100, also adjustes the cutoff at 70 for having an intellectual disability. Because the real issue isn’t a line of how smart someone is in a vacuum, it’s that an IQ difference of 30 points or more is enough for both people to realize something is off and communication to be hindered.
An IQ of 145 isn’t that rare, about 1 in 1,200. And that’s the cutoff for what an IQ test can reliably measure so it’s a good reference point. Most people who score over the test limits never get the bigger test, because that bitch can take multiple days and the numbers pretty much stop mattering.
For someone over that line though, over 80% of humans are more than 30 points below them, the majority much lower. To them every day of their lives has been Idiocracy, and they have existed at a relatively stable percentage of humanity for all of our past and will for all of our future.
What people are noticing when they think Idiocracy is coming true, is a widening gap in education. IQ just honestly isn’t that noticable except for a statistically insignificant amount of people at either end.