Slouching Toward Idiocracy

The most reliable way to establish an Idiocracy is to populate your nation with low IQ people. That approach has worked for Haiti and a number of other nations easily identified by the graphic above.

As you can see from the graphic above, low IQ societies will do well to keep the garbage and excrement off the streets. You cannot expect them to be global drivers of invention, commerce, and advanced technology.

A dumbing down of popular culture and intellectual fodder is another path to an Idiocratic future. Even the means by which information is propagated may exert an Idiocratic effect on large numbers of practitioners.

Another tried and true method of establishing an Idiocracy is by dumbing down the schools. This approach takes longer, but if you can force most students to matriculate through the dumbed-down system, your Idiocracy is certain to arrive eventually.

Not that formal education can ever guarantee success. But the time that is spent in school should be time well spent, not time wasted by an incompetent educational system.

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For a number of reasons, the population average IQ for the world has been declining -- and is projected to continue to decline for the foreseeable future. This ongoing drop in average IQ combined with cultural and societal trends which restrict a person's use of whatever innate intelligence he may have, will double the detriment on the street level.

You can speed up the IQ decline in your country by opening the door to a massive influx of low IQ immigrants from countries with low average IQ.

Another way that intelligent action can be restricted is through risk-aversion -- the extreme fear of making a mistake. If people are so afraid of making a mistake that they never take a chance, they are unlikely to accomplish much, or to solve many pressing problems. And so the problems keep piling up, until before you know it the average IQ of the first world has slumped to the previous average level of the third world. And then you have arrived at what is likely to be a very long-lasting Idiocracy indeed.

It took tens of thousands of years for humans to evolve into distinct breeding populations, with different traditions, strengths, interests, and capacities. It may take not much over a century for the world's human population to erase whatever gains those tens of thousands of years of evolution may have seen. Certainly far less than the 500 years that humans in the movie took to establish a lasting Idiocracy.

This will not be a smooth transition. From the Muslim reconquista of Europe to the La Raza reconquista of the Southwestern US -- and dozens more "liberation movements" from Central Asia to Africa to China to Southeastern Asia to New Zealand to Canada to Latin America -- it is certain to be a bumpy ride.

If you have a better way of maintaining wealth than gold -- use it. If you know of a better way of protecting your loved ones and your property than public sector union employees -- bring it about. If you are sure of a location better suited for a more secure and prosperous future than you can presently foresee -- start preparing to move there.

The many tumultuous changes that will occur due to the few trends pointed out above will not happen uniformly, but will instead be focused mainly in certain areas. Take that into account when making your plans.