Idiocracy: Are we there yet?

A few days ago, the movie Idiocracy was on television.

For those who have never heard of it, it is a comedy film released in the year 2006 and it has the following premise:

While couples with an average high intelligence have fewer children (1 or none) due to various reasons (career, time, lower sexual desire), couples with low intellectual level usually have a very large number of children.

Thus, due to natural selection, genes related to higher intelligence begin to be passed on to the next generation at a much lower frequency than the genes of people with lower intelligence, and over several generations, people of medium or higher intelligence are extinguished, leaving only the idiots on the face of the earth.

An guy with average intelligence is frozen and wakes up in the future, where he ends up being considered the smartest person on earth.

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In recent days I have felt like the protagonist of this film, and I think that I slept at some point in my life and I woke up in a world where a great mental retardation occurred in all the people of the planet.

Overkill? Maybe not. Some facts:

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• In Brazil, in the polls of presidential elections, two candidates stand out: on one side, a former president convicted in two instances for corruption, and currently being tried in the 3rd instance. On the other, an ex-military man who has already made several racist, homophobic, misogynist statements, and flirts with the possibility of creating a new military regime government. Yes, a new dictatorship.

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• In the United States, we have a businessman who has become President but does not seem to have a very high intellectual level, especially in what refers to international relations and the world economy.

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• People claim that the earth is flat, completely ignoring thousands of years of scientific development, and want to convince other people that gravity is a lie, that the Earth's disk is wrapped in an ice barrier, and that everything is just a conspiracy of government and NASA (and now also of Elon Musk) to convince people that the earth is round. Although no one knows what is the purpose of this conspiracy.

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• Also at the level of conspiracy theory is absurd the number of parents who are not vaccinating their children, because according to some of them, it is all a plot to reduce the world population. More people who ignore thousands of years of scientific advancement, but in this case with far more serious consequences for the health of children and even entire populations.

• Back to Trump, we have his little friend in North Korea who looks like two children arguing in the courtyard of choice who has the biggest dick, but with the small difference is that these dicks are nuclear atomic devices that can destroy the entire world population.

• Meanwhile, in everyday life, ordinary people have seen celebrities on the internet talking about ... what they ate for breakfast. Or doing something disgusting and even dangerous, such as eating detergent, or pouring concrete on your own head.

And many, many other attitudes we see every day being done by ordinary people or celebrities.

My question is: Was the world already retarded like this before the age of the Internet, and the only difference is that the Web enables us to have access to these stupid people? Or the average intelligence of the world is in decline?

Please help me with this existential crisis ...