This is not meant to be inflammatory in any way, but rather incite discussion.

I’ve lived through both the nineties and the 2000s. I’ve seen the rise of CGI and 3D graphics for games. I’ve lived through the golden era of sci fi pc games and RPGs (Planescape: Torment, Deus Ex System Shock 2, bioshock, Fallout 2 and 3).

I’ve also seen the rise in the mass use of the internet and the natural evolution of the system as both a information system and a pioneering form of non national communication networks and systems.

Games, Film, computers and the Internet mark the beginning of a new era of civilization; The gradual building progression to massive, techno-cultural event known to science fiction authors, futurists, scientists, engineers and computer technicians as the singularity. By the logic of this theory, there will be a point in upcoming history in which major technological advancement will continuously speed up until a crux point, the singularity is encounters, in which technological, cultural and artisinal advancements will begin to increase at an infinitely exponential rate until human civilization will be unrecognizable to us and our preconceived notions of it. I believe such an event will occur within the next 10-15 years with the development of a few primary technologies; quantum computing, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and conventional space-time movement subversion (CERN, Quantum tunneling and entanglement, instantaneous travel across the universe regardless of momentum and mass)

I theorize that there have been smaller singularities over human history, signifying points of rapid development in art, technology and culture. Such examples of smaller singular events are the renaissance, the massive technological growth of the Chinese empire before its rapid decline, and most recently, the rapid development of audio-visual and broadcast media in the early 20th century.

But as we make our final steps to the ultimate final singularity, which threatens or entreats the absolute reconstruction of human civilization and consciousness, a growing trend seems to have popped up since the new millennium. It disturbs me very much. And this growing trend is that people are fucking stupid! And they’re growing stupider every day.



Despite access to growing information networks and consistently evolving forms of informational access, people are becoming less informed and frequently more aggressive when defending the pathetic, half formed excuses. They act in a fashion similar to that of an arrogant genius when in actuality they are low intelligence morons. I make no effort to assert myself as being a intellectually superior being, but I have the benefit of saying that I am far more adaptive and inviting to the introduction of new ideas and concepts into my personal being.

A few cultural points seem to pop up when in defending my development. These are conspiracy theories, social networking, and cultural backlash.

Conspiracy theories, for many, are the basis for fanciful thinking and fiction. For a great deal of others, they represent a concealment of the truth in face of overwhelming counter evidence. These people believe Kennedy was assassinated by his government, the moon landing was faked, and the World Trade Center was destroyed by their own government to justify a war in the Middle East. These people will interpolate, interconnect and invent evidence as they see fit in order to confirm their devout and even insane claims of subterfuge and dishonesty.

In the real world however, the marked stupidity of such people is clearly evident. Despite consistent and continuous proof by non-government experts (history channel, mythbusters, and the discovery channel respectively) countering every conspiracy theory listed above and then some, they doggedly refuse to accept a logical explanation.

I contribute this to a form of evolved natural stupidity. Humans have been able to maintain themselves as the dominant species because of one primary aspect that most animals seem to lack; abstract thinking. While primates and dolphins seem to possess this skill as well, our ability far exceeds them. We win because we can perceive and recognize patterns and hypothesize about the future. We can also inference and preconceive concepts and ideas before we act upon them. It’s what has kept us alive during our development as a species and civilization and allowed us to flourish. Unfortunately, this comes with a downside. This is the persistence of pattern seeking behaviour in a time in our development where it’s mostly vestigial in use. Many are incapable of perceiving chaos and random, non-interconnected behaviour and thus, almost as if it were a defense mechanism, people instantly and doggedly stick to the largest web of events and behaviour possible and defend as if with their lives, despite clear and present lunacy in such hypotheses. It can best be interpreted as a bizarre neurological freak of natural selection. With regards to us, it is a specialization and evolution of desired taken to such a point in which it becomes detrimental to us as a species. Because of such rapid onset programming in people’s brains, its allowed for the persistence and perpetuation of incoherent webs of interconnection and meaning amongst massive groups of people. Through our primary communication systems, writing, imagery and speaking, these ideas persist and flourish amongst groups of people, entering, corrupting and spreading these logic webs/programs in a fashion similar to that of a virulent computer program. An example of such is religion and religious dogma and the problems they cause.


Social networking is another piece in the growing evidence towards mankind’s stupidity. Primarily designed as a informational interconnection in the era of post-national internet communities, networks have devolved into cesspools of human idiocy and childish behaviour. People, because of anonymity on the Internet with sites such as this or networks such as facebook and twitter, lose their ability to act with basic social skills. They let their ID run free believing there to be no consequence for their actions due to the dissociative and disconnected nature of the internet. They build groups and communities of likeminded morons on such websites and social networks to persist in their own childish behaviour. Unfortunately this has larger scale ripple effect upon them and society. They begin to dissociate from their real life and seem to only exist on the internet. They become unable to properly interact with people outside their social network and when they do move within the real world, they begin to act as they do on the internet. Unfortunately the clustering effect of such destructive behavior has generated a whole population of people socially ineffective outside the limitations of the internet. They literally cannot function without facebook or myspace and they become unable to properly interact with real people.



To finally address my point is the idiocy of cultural backlash. As films, books, games and such form of entertainment grow in popularity, there is a vocal group of people who express hatred towards it for no reason other than the fact that it is popular. This is known as cultural backlash. The point of such patterns of behaviour is nonexistent. It instead stands as counteraction in a futile attempt to attain independence by rejecting conventional popular media. They then run to sites such as this and Kotaku and many others, spewing off half baked counter culture opinions to make themselves seem unique from what they believe is everybody else.

Look, while I give credence to the belief that Twilight is poor, exploitative genre trash, I realize why people like it. I respect it, as much as I hate it, for its ability to garner such an audience. But the backlash against films such as Titanic and Slumdog Millionare is idiotic at best. These films are expertly made, confident dramas, which display excellent screenwriting and direction. However, the hatred for these films based on popularity makes no sense. While personal preference not matching up with the film resulting in someone not liking it is perfectly fine, having disdain simply because many people like it is idiotic at best. It is merely an excuse for foolish half-wits to use antisocial behaviour on a group with little consequence. They think, by avoiding popular opinion, they can make themselves more noticeable and unique to others. Such attempts at recognition is the desperate throes of a weak simple minded fool who wants more attention than their personality or intelligence should allow.



But such moronic behaviour has extended even further, leading to backlash before a film is even released. Such is the case with the upcoming film Avatar by James Cameron. Remarks that film looks like it will be shit and further general hatred make no sense. All right, while someone may not like something because they don’t like the art style or they are not interested in the story is fine. But disdain as well as broad generalized remarks when they have no basis in reality and can’t even be determined yet doesn’t make any sense. People displaying hatred for a film which has done nothing wrong yet as it has not even been released is the most idiotic thing ever conceived by a human being. It is essentially the judgment of something, with no proper understanding of its quality. It’s thoughtless hatred by groups of nasty self-serving morons who would go personally out of their way to discredit something because they can latch their lamprey like suckers on any handle of the hate wagon they can reach with their sad, limited intellect.

This may seem like incessant ranting, but there is a specific point to my argument. Why is it that in the era of widespread knowledge and interactivity is people growing stupider, louder and less informed? The rise of fools across the world is a sad reminder that though many wonders await us in the future and the next decade, the world is filled with witless, low brow worms who slither in the dirt of their own ignorance, misery and hatred and do nothing to simply live and be happy for the sake of being happy. I wish the stupidity will end with the new decade and hopefully lead us to an age of intellect and honesty towards oneself and others in their. But I doubt that will happen any time soon.