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The irony behind Daniel Pinchbeck’s book “The Return of Quetzalcoatl” during the hype of the Mayan calendar, which I had read and enjoyed as a thought experiment about the returning of a indigenous Mexican god, was that imo he had been correct about at least one thing; the mental shift in humanity. It’s around the year 2012 that I’d attribute to the beginning of the decline in humanity’s cognitive abilities, the start of Idiocracy seemingly appearing more like a documentary than fictional comedy with every year, and all the while simultaneously a rise or plateau in intellect of a few others. Making individuals of average intelligence appear to be geniuses amongst the devolving Neanderthals.
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