HS 498: Human Extinction, At Our Wits’ End, Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent & What it Means for the Future by Ed Dutton

Jason Hartman talks with Ed Dutton, author of At Our Wits End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and Churchill’s Headmaster: The ‘Sadist’ Who Nearly Saved the British Empire, about why our society has reached the point where we’re beginning to become dumber and what point of the cycle we’re in.

Key Takeaways:

[2:04] We’re becoming less intelligent very quickly, which is happening for genetic reasons and just like all previous civilizations

[6:23] Welfare and feminism is a factor in child bearing rates

[9:59] Per capita genius is now at the level we were in the 1600s

[16:18] It doesn’t take many maladaptive people to poison the well

[19:58] Atheism correlates with all sorts of indications of high mutational load

[22:16] Civilization always moves in cycles of intelligence and health

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