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Do you ever lament that old songs seem to have more meaning than those produced today? Do you ever regard the success of books like the Da Vinci Code and the Hunger Games with sadness, comparing their lack of depth and nuance against the qualities of Brave New World, Sons and Lovers, and other bestsellers of yesteryear? Have you ever complained that the media in general is ‘dumbing down’ and that politics is becoming a reality TV competition?
What you may be describing are the effects of a phenomenon called ‘Dysgenics’, the process by which the human population (and thereby the culture) of a given area grows less intelligent with every new generation (needless to add, it is the opposite of Eugenics, a proposed system of discriminatory breeding intended to raise the general level of intelligence).
Out of all the burning scientific and sociological issues of our day, this is probably the most controversial, the one that people are really not supposed to talk about. This is because everyone is affected by dysgenics. It is not a process limited to a certain people, culture or nation. No-one can afford to laugh at it, shrug it off or deny it.
*I must emphasise before continuing that this is not an issue of ‘class’. Just because someone hasn’t gone to university doesn’t mean they are stupid. As a corollary, just because someone has been to university (even Oxford or Cambridge) doesn’t necessarily imply a superlative level of intelligence. In the latter case, people may just be privileged or have had superior or over-dedicated schooling.
When we talk about a new class of stupid people, we are talking about those who are incapable of philosophy and conviction, who shun the political and the cerebral in favour of the popular and facile, who cannot read and write, who are senselessly criminal and randomly aggressive, who have no sexual restraint and who fail to properly raise children.
These people, found in all classes and proliferating furiously up and down the United Kingdom, are something quite novel in British history. Of course, there has always been an idiot class, feckless and wild, unable to become part of the working majority, but they have never been so numerous or culturally influential as they are today.
The underclass is now a sub-culture, a sub-nation, with quirks of dress, language and even cuisine.
As to how the dysgenic process works, opinion is divided. Some blame the welfare state and its habit of paying people more welfare when they have large families, thereby encouraging the most incapable to have more children in order to live off said benefits. Frankly, I don’t think this is common enough to account for what is happening. I think it more likely that the dysgenic process has accelerated due to a longstanding imbalance of fertility and intelligence. In short, the smart people (those with jobs, political opinions and bookshelves) have smaller families than those who chew their toenails. Over time, that imbalance can completely transform the character of a nation, even one with such an illustrious history as ours.
While this is tolerable enough for now, one has to think about the future and how the nation will cope as the ratio leans ever more toward the negative.
Something particularly threatened by this process, I believe, is human liberty. After all, what becomes of a society when people no longer understand politics enough to partake in it? What kind of government will assemble itself in that situation, and what extra powers will it take on?
The voter turn-out for national elections is frighteningly low in the West, frequently clocking in at less than 50%, and sinking as low as 20% in local contests.
You can be sure that the elite secretly approves of this. The progeny of Eton don’t care if the rest of the country begins to moan and dribble. On the contrary, popular degeneration only serves to elevate them to an even greater standing.
Indeed, this is partly why the class system exists at all. It was and is designed to segregate people according to ability, never having them intermix or interbreed with one another.
In reality, the growth of illiteracy and criminality affects all classes equally. You will have met people so afflicted on many occasions, I’m sure, no matter where you live or what company you aspire to keep.
The last time I wrote about dysgenics on this blog, I was accused of being fascistic. I suppose that’s inevitable. Hitler has forever tarnished the discussion of genetics with the stamp of extremism. Be that as it may, this is an important conversation that must be held sooner or later.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
I watched “Idiocracy” on the strength of the comments on last week’s “Fear of Black Planet” blog. Ironically, some of the blame could be pointed at the google-isatin of intelligence. The lack of need to remember a phone number these days can be frightening in itself to one who was once used to rote learning such things.
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Socrates and Plato never had to learn telephone numbers either :-). The human brain is fantastically adaptable. I think google is more part of the solution than the problem – I found this blog using google.
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Google can be very enlightening, but it pretty much depends on the intentions of the googler (I’m sure that’s a word now). For every political blog or scientific website, there are millions of sites devoted to pornography and empty-headed celebrity coverage.
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Ok but if those sites are increasing then surely that’s just a symptom of average hereditary intelligence declining. It may be that only a small percentage of people are actively involved in useful debates but I see daily evidence that these conversations are also increasing and getting more interesting. We are no longer just being spoon fed opinions from over-powerful media organisations like the BBC, we can easily find lots of different points of view. I believe that this will eventually turn into a real revolution in human thought. Technology is not the enemy.
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I agree. Technology can be part of the solution.
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It would also be the internet which gives legitimacy to rapid (d)evolution of the English language. I heard a news story on local radio here in Australia that the new online edition of the Oxford Dictionary includes more than 2000 new words specifically from Australia.
While the news story here was a celebration that Australianisms can make their mark in the eyes of the esteemed Oxford Dictionary board, the majority of words were slang, putting them in the dictionary gives them credibility.
Imagine how many more words have “evolved” in the UK and North America? With this kind of pace, it means that a student writing an essay with the inclusion of LOL, or similar can lay claim that it is legitimate English as its in the dictionary. Why bother learning the big words when can legitimately express in base level…
Now, if only scrabble would catch up to the Oxford inclusions, I could crack some more 500 point games!
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It’s extremely difficult to read comments on facebook these days. Language is becoming deformed.
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This post brought a memory flooding back, of how as a teenager I read ‘Sons and Lovers’ in the course of a long weekend, curled up in a chair in what was then my bedroom. The book made a huge impact on me…I was studying Virginia Woolf as part of a college course at the time and D.H. Lawrence seemed to me a far more powerful and elemental writer than her. Although now I think that, technically at least, she was the better writer.
Perhaps if I was a teenager nowadays I’d have spent that time on Facebook and Twitter. And how much poorer I would have been for it.
Your point about how the Etonian elite secretly want most of the population to be dumbed down was very good. Another generation of the grammar schools and their game would have been up. Thanks to Shirley (now Baroness) Williams the grammar schools were butchered and the future of the public schools was made secure. Tristam Hunt strikes me as being very much in the Shirley Williams mode, a high-minded idiot who will do huge damage to the education system if he ever gets the chance.
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Lawrence was a great stylist, even if his political views were somewhat warped.
I spend too much time on facebook, I must admit. Youtube is also an addiction. I have to force myself to turn the laptop off for a few hours a day to read. In the past, I’m sure it was natural to read for entertainment. Nowadays it takes real exertion. There must be millions of young people who have never opened a book outside of school.
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I think part of the problem here is that due to political correctness there is simply no serious research being done into the subject. Therefore we can only really guess about how big a factor welfare is. I have searched before in vain for any facts and figures on the internet. Due to the stranglehold that the left have on academia I don’t see much chance of this changing any time soon. The closest thing I ever found was a university study into Gordon Brown’s “War on child poverty”, which found a clear link between the increased child benefits and birth rates. I think this was done by Bristol University but I cant even find any info on it any more. One internet blog I found did suggest that those on welfare have 3x more children than the rest of us on average, but where this info came from I don’t know. We need facts and figures, not idle speculation.
A very high percentage of Muslims in the UK are unemployed – over 50% of men, 76% of women, over 21% have never had jobs. They have a high birth rate in the UK but their birth rates in other countries have fallen dramatically, notably Iran. I think this lends some support to the theory that welfare is part of both the problems of dysgenics and the rise of that particularly backward religion in Europe.
One big reason to talk about welfare is that, of the doubtless many factors involved, it may be the only one that we could easily do something about, if the political will existed. Putting some funding into more reliable contraception might help a bit, as might better sex education. Let’s hope that people presenting arguments like you are doing here may eventually help by encouraging people to stop believing that they are saving the planet by not having any children. Ironically the lefties that persist with this bad idea are in fact probably not so intelligent though so they at least are helping out a bit there :-).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8054403/Britains-coping-classes-at-breaking-point.html
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The only serious academic studies into this are The Bell Curve (mainly about America) and Dysgenics by Richard Lynn (a very right-wing professor in Belfast). To buy the latter, you’ll need 30 pounds. It’s not in mass-market print. The Bell Curve meanwhile is out of date.
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Another great read on dysgenics from a fiction perspective is NW by Zadie Smith.
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I like her. Anyone recommended by Martin Amis is worth reading.
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I think rather than worrying how to stop the underclass breeding, or other unsavory, easily attacked subjects, it is more productive to focus on producing the kind of UK and Europe that allows successful people to thrive and do well in life, and less successful ones to struggle more than they currently do. At the moment we penalise success and encourage dependency. This has effects that are further reaching than dysgenics.
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I don’t think we could ever stop people from breeding. What I do think is important is that we reclaim the right to talk about these things. Dysgenics is very serious and it explains many of the bad things that are happening to our country.
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Free: https://archive.org/details/Dysgenics-Richard-Lynn
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Great find! Thanks. I hope people take time to read it. It’s a very short book.
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You’re welcome!! Search engines rock…
I try not to use the main search engines out there. I used to use Scroogle, but it was eventually killed off, after many attempts by Google to remove them as a “pirate” search engine… but there are other ones that also try to avoid the commercial-paid results that come from your search terms… Now, whether the NSA or whomever can or cannot actually see my searches, to me, is actually besides the point, as i have little confidence in avoiding Big Brother on the internet. However, the avoidance of paid results is more the reason why i prefer search engines like DuckDuckGo and Zuula.
Using those two (and there likely are more of them now) actually helps me find more useful results, such as book archives, professional association papers, university master’s thesis, etc.
sacred-texts.com and gutenberg.org also have some older classic texts and whatnot.
I love reading, tho i never did as a younger person. And as much as YouTube videos are helpful, i can get lost in reading on the computer for weeks at a time… LOL! (Where was this person when i was going to college???)
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The internet is an amazing thing. People are so used to it that they often forget how much it transforms our lives for the better.
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