I don't know if I should tell everyone this. It kind of falls under the umbrella of conspiracy, which is why I put it here. For the past, perhaps, 50 years of so, they have been basically hiding how dumb people are. And putting them in a special class program in GS and HS. Actually, my friend J told me when they do that now, they are a little more open about it. I don't know, because I haven't attended any kind of classes in about 20 years. It's a large segment of the public, that is low or lower in intelligence, basically. I think most people fall into three groups (more on that below). All roughly a third of the population. And I think people are getting dumber. I'm serious. As I tell people, cashiers used to think I didn't know they had to know what I was buying before they gave me the receipt. When they do that, they're really showing you how low their intelligence is. Think about it. And as I said, people seem to be getting dumber. Some say it's the fluoride in the water. Others say it's our reliance on smartphones and other technology. Maybe they do it because lower our intelligence and the less we know the better. As Gonzalo says in The Tempest: I’ th’ commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things, for no kind of traffic Would I admit. No name of magistrate. Letters should not be known. Riches, poverty, And use of service—none. Contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard—none. No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil. No occupation: all men idle, all. Or as Lisa Simpson says in "Lisa the Simpson", Season 9, Episode 17: Well, Ralph seems happy enough. Maybe I should just give up now and settle into a mindless, happy stupor. Plus as I've said before. Shakespeare was probably developmentally deficient. People with that problem aren't dumb. Sometimes they are just different. Anyways, the three tiers. I am not just making that up. I'm actually basing it on our college system, believe it or not. Some people go to the major universities. Harvard and Yale. Those are the most intelligent of the most intelligent. There were always very few of those people in the world. The second tier are the commuter college people. Commuter college. Where I live, MI, very few qualify to go to U of M/Ann Arbor. But U of M/Dearborn (note that is still called U of M) is a commuter college. I went there from 1988 to 1993. And I did well, BTW. Places like commuter college are 5th grade level. Functional literacy IOW. I think most people fall into that category. Or maybe a clear plurality of people IAE. Now, a lady on another message board told me the 3rd grade is considered functional literacy in the US. In 1978 they used to say 5th grade is. Whether that is because they lowered the standard to 3rd grade or because they raised the requirement for 3rd grade, I don't know. But people seem to be getting less and less intelligent. So I tend to think the first. Which is a little frightening. But we only need a certain number of people on the earth to know how to do things like build a computer. Now people with a 5th grade education could probably repair one. And with computer repair you use electronic devices to help you. The last tier is the community college level. Around 2000 I read in my CC booklet that the school allowed mentally deficient people to take classes. This was 20 years ago, realize. A doctor recently told me that what was once considered borderline mental deficiency is now not considered a disease at all. You're just normal IOW. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. Inclusion is always a good thing. But sometimes people in this group still need a little help. Because each of them might have different problems. There's other things the people in the know are hiding from us. I might as well include that in this thread. Crime and antisocial behavior is just another disease. We've always known that. The real aim of society is and always has been for people to be happy, safe and healthy. You might have heard that scientists believe morality is just a human convention. And that's true. They believe a happy healthy society is what is important. But scientists are certainly moral themselves. They are more moral than the rest of us on average. Also, I think things like retribution do more damage to society than good. Deterrence and moral responsibility are important still. But punishment as an end unto itself is very bad for society and always will be. I also wonder about God. Some scientists say there obvious is none. And some just say they personally are agnostics. There probably is no Judeo-Christian God. At least not as defined in the Bible. But how do you define God? Like Bill Clinton, who I voted for by the way, once said. What is your definition of "is"? God probably isn't a person. He or she could just be an order to things. IOW a Tao or a Zen. Plus as I read in an article in 1988, God created humans. So in that way he or she must be partly personal. Also, if you want to approach God from a religious perspective, that's all right. Einstein always considered himself a Jew. But in reality, he was a pantheist. Also, lastly on the idea of God. Scientist says that it is odd that the universe seems to be designed to just make and support intelligent life. But the multiverse theory tells us that that might be because we got lucky. There might be other multiverses, actually most of them, that are not ideal for intelligent life.
The reason that the entire internet runs on fibre optics, without anyone actually inventing the principal. When I remind people that it started after the 1947 Roswell incident, I just get nervous laughs. Governments want to turn us into a civilisation, where we never think of thinking for ourselves at all.
I am sorry to read this, and confirms some suspicions of mine. A democracy , being a government of the people or masses, can only be effective if its population is educated and well-informed. Consequently there should be free or subsidised academic education for all the citizens . This is not there in the US where college education happens to be expensive. So how can there be an educated and well-informed public necessary for optimal democratic functioning! If deep state entities want to take over the government clandestinely to serve their interests, obviously dumbing down of the masses should be high in their agenda, so that there will be not much dudes intelligent enough to seek accountability and transparency of the government functioning or ask the right questions.
Almost nobody knows how to use a stupid dictionary, making divide and conquer strategies all that much more effective. Like lab rats, they're constantly dividing people up into different categories and boxes, and sorting through them for anything interesting. You could try to blame modern science, or money, but the sad truth is, once you get over 400 people, Three Stooges slapstick sets in, and you require next generation science to sort out the mess, when 8 billion people are making it.
In 1880, a man named Alex Bell created the photophone which allowed the first wireless transmission using a beam of light to carry sound. It wasn't until 1970 that the Corning company could produce fiber pure enough for communication, after 16 years of evolution of fiberglass in communication. So all they had to do was make glass as pure as possible to stop the loss of signal.
Just recently, for the first time, they figured out how to send multiple different frequencies down a conventional fiber optic. We're literally still working our way up to multiplexed fiber optics, similar to the way we eventually created multiplexed copper cables. Its not a question of what is possible, but what is cheap, and we're now entering the age of quantum everything, including quantum radios and other things that make all of our current gadgets look like toys in comparison. They're even making progress with teleporting holograms, which would mean you don't require fiber optics, or even radio waves. Assuming they can mass produce something like that, your cellphone might come with a lifetime supply of entangled particles on a chip.
The early photophone sent light through open air, the principal was then adopted around 1926, to produce the first optical soundtrack in film. Although early sound films used the system as in my avatar picture, this was due to Warner brothers not being able to break the patent. The part of your reply above makes my point. It was not until after the Roswell incident that the concept of using fibre optics to carry data over long distances seemed to appear out of the blue. The same was true regarding development of the transistor. What makes this more interesting, was the connections of the companies developing this technology to the US government. Few companies would have invested those levels of money on unproven technology. During the days following the Roswell incident, the military went public. Then all that changed and the whole thing was denied. Was discovered technology the reason.? Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Spielberg and Peter Hyams all believe that the US government are hiding the truth. They believe that the government have been juggling with the theories between keeping the technology for themselves, to nothing happened in the first place, for more than 70 years.
People sure are dumb. 2020 showed that!! People can be told anything and they just believe it!!! (And they cut us down cause we dont)
The top of my desk is flat. Death Valley is mostly flat. Earth is an oblate spheroid. Your curvature may vary.
The first generation of fiber-optic cable could alternate between a "1" and a "0" at a few hundred megabits per second.
