Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6767898-20130409140103/@comment-6078851-20130413150209

i wholeheartedly agree about society getting dumber, but men can be just as dumb (in general) as women can be. if there are more dumb women than men it is simply in relation to the fact that women outnumber men. i've met more men than women and men are dumber by quite some way.

i know this is deviating from the topic substantially but the people who frequent this wiki are significantly more intelligent and learned than 95% of the people i've ever met, so maybe you'll bear with me for a bit :)

the intellectual degredation of our species is intrinsically linked to our monetary-economic systems.

first off - money isn't worth the paper it's printed on, literally. money was based on the 'gold standard', which it isn't any more, and gold itself has no real value. it has very resricted industrial uses which weren't even known about until about a century ago, but before that it's only value resided in people wanting it, "ooh, shiny thing" pretty much sums up it's real value. the "shiny thing" mentality is also the basis of the entire industry of jewelry.

when it comes to the dumb masses repetition is the key - "you need money, you want money, money is important, money can buy you happiness." i'm paraphrasing slightly but this is essentially the cornerstone of every human civilisation on earth (post currency) - those who have money do everything they can to get more while those who have none do everything they can to get some. this then leads to the insitution of voluntary slavery - jobs.

those who have money have managed to skew the world in such a way that life has to be earned. it's almost impossible to find somewhere on this 'free world' where you can actually live for free. from the time we are born onward we are bombarded from every direction about the importance and worth of money, and when we become adults we find out that in order to live we must work. so we work, we make money, we buy the little things (or the big things) that make us happy. we are then bombarded by money-making machines with the vast range of things we can buy that "makes us happy or our money back". all of this is secondary, however, to the fact that we have no choice about working, we either work or risk starving to death, which really isn't a choice and so we slave ourselves to the system. and if there are no jobs to be had? "well tough, we're obviously not looking hard enough" (and if you love your job then it isn't work, you're simply paid to do what you love, you lucky lucky people).

now this idea of mine - 'volunteer slaves', surprisingly (sarcastic) when i bring this up most people took at me blankly, and then go on about how important money is and they can't live if they don't buy their 'shiny thing', not only do they not see the slavery but they refuse to even acknowledge it. in my opinion this is why our race is getting dumber - the dumb people are the ones who support the monetary system so the money-making machines are catering more and more to them. dumb people may not be great thinkers but they're great at having big families, and big families need lots of money and so the cycle continues to expand.

our race is reaching a cataclysmic volume and something needs to be done to regulate our reproduction, but if this was done then it would seriously affect "next year's profit margin", and this is why i think our numbers will continue to swell uncontrollably and why the dumb masses will continue to get dumber.

by the way, please don't think i'm being derogatory towards everyone who i'm labelling "dumb", no-one can help how they're born. i am, however, being derogatory towards all those who do have an intellect but refuse to see past the money, these people i also consider dumb.

ok, i'm done, and thanks if anyone actually read this but now back to topic.....

i'm still voting classical because, as a genre, it can cover every aspect of 40k, in style and epic scale.