"The Best Laid Schemes Of Mice And Men*

 


Gee, I wish I could read the full article but there's the infamous paywall and I'm not climbing over it. I shall try to go around. The article in New Scientist caught my eye because it informs us that humans are devolving. It's been happening for quite some time so we can't completely blame technology. What little I managed to read claims we are mutants, our children will be mutants and so on until we are drooling blobs. 

Well, that explains everything. 

I've gotten around the paywall but looks like I've gone to the wrong address because this article blames the environment for our degenerating state. Maybe New Scientist was going to get to that point. I'll never know. I'm sure there are loads of reasons why we are getting stupider. According to the linked article, IQ's have been going down since the 70's. Damn, I may be one of the last generation of intelligent life on Earth. That doesn't give me warm fuzzies. It's quite depressing, actually. So, let's go back to 1975, when man started losing brain cells. What was going on then? We were listening to the Bee Gees and Meatloaf. Bell bottoms and shiny satin shirts were big. Oh, drugs. Maybe it had something to do with mind altering drugs. Or, as the New Science implies, it's just evolution, but going in the wrong direction.

So let us teleport to 2026. (Sorry, no waffles) I just read an article in the local news that was really disturbing to me. Our neighboring town has failed with our children, especially African American children. According to the latest test results, not one child is going to get into a college. Not one. I know from my own eyeballs and listening ears, young adults entering college are barely literate- at least the one I was enrolled in a few years back with a yearly fee of what a good steak costs now, $34,500. I understand the way we retrieve information might be different, but as far as I know we are all still reading. Aren't we? So why was it so difficult for many of the students to read out loud the words before them? I know Covid screwed our young ones up. My thirteen year old spent over a year "learning" lessons on a computer at home. In the years to come we are going to see the real results of what Covid has done to that generation. Without constant persuasion, pressure and extra tutoring from family members our 13 year old would be years behind the learning curve. I don't know if we can reverse course. Perhaps a new drug will be found before we get to the poopy pants, drooling part while we eat cat hair off the floor.

Oh, this reminds me of a book I read when I was a child- 'Flowers for Algernon.' Now I am thorally bummed out reulizeeng we culd go bacwerds and all the beyuteeful things we no will disapeer


*Mouse- a poem by Robert Burns

**Image: Bookstore which didn't last long in town.

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