This is a well-researched piece about our declining attention span and intelligence. The writers connect it with the development of information technology, from printing and the telegraph to the smartphone in nearly everybody’s hand today.
The vid is worth watching even if only for the many striking and beautiful images that accompany (but rarely illustrate) the argument - are they there to test our concentration?
Alternatively Professor Edward Dutton aka The Jolly Heretic puts it down to the fact that we live in easier times so our survival is not challenged as it used to be and the “Flynn effect” (average IQ increasing over time) has gone into reverse. He talks about it in this interview. Dutton has also said elsewhere that cleverer people (except for right-wingers) breed fewer children than those who are lower in IQ.
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