Air pollution and Idiocracy are linked.
By: Morten Erichsen
Tags: Intelligence, Air Pollution, Pollution, Decline Of Civilization

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Air pollution and Idiocracy are linked.

It is becomming more and more obvious that pollution and air pollution specifically is causing cognitive impairment. Morten Erichsen Aug 27·3 min read

Lots of people are noticing that our politicians seem to getting dumber and dumber. There are limits to imcompetence, statistically speaking. We all make mistakes, but when governments around the world seem to be making worsening decisions about everything, it is time to ask if there is a deeper problem. And indeed there seems to be.

Lots of evidence is emerging from scientific studies showing that air pollution, in particular, makes us all dumber.

Your seat of government is probably in an area with high leveles of air pollution.

Most governments are located at the geographical centre of their cities. These places are also places where air pollution is often comparatively high.

So what are the chances that our leaders are getting dumber and dumber because of the air pollution they are exposed to?

What if it isn’t blind partisanship, corruption, secret political donors, or whatever other thing we all suspect driving our countries into the ground? Maybe we should just get on with the job of cleaning up our environment and everything wil, as if by magic, correct itself.

The loss of Common Sense…

Over the span of several generations we have all lost touch with common sense, according to the testimony of most old people. Common Sense is no longer common. The entirety of the industrial revolution can be interpreted as be one long process of pollution. Aside from the extremely usefull things we have gained and the knowledge we have wresteled using scientic methods and commerce combined. Some of the products discovered, and then delivered in the form of commercial products to poulations have caused much harm. The historians of science have variously pointed this out, but it seems worth relflecting on this point in relation to the cazy scientist stereotype. Not least to address the general sense of mistrust in science, the medical industry and most recently the vaccine hesitancy, or anti-vax segments of developed nations.

The Crazy Scientist Trope.

There is the Frankensteinian type of scientist, whose curiousity led them onto a path of terror, and, or death. But then there are also the Marie Curie type of scientist, who unwitttingly die from the subjects they investigate, due to the ignorance of the effects. But a lot of scientists have a kind of crazy look about them, not least Einstein with his crazy hair. And yet Einstein is one of our scientific heroes. I doubt anyone has investigated Einstein’s toxicity levels, at any point, to see if he was indeed impaired. Maybe, just maybe, he just happened to get lucky with his theories after working in that patent office and absorbing other peoples insights, before claiming they were his. It’s a pretty rude accusation to make without any evidence, I suppose. But in his lifetime the amount of toxic materials used in domestic products, from wall paper dyes, to cleaning products, and who knows what other products he was around.

America. Homeland of the stupid, loud and obnoxious tourist.

So, noise pollution leads to deafness (WHAT DID YOU SAY?). Air pollution leads to stpudity and loss of cognitive reasoning (Cognitive is a word. Google it). Unawareness of oneself leads to the “blindness of privilege” (being obnoxious).

America is the Land of the Automobile! Preferably with really loud roaring exhaust pipes. For example, the Ford Mustang, or the Harlay Davidson.

It all makes sense in hindsight. America also has some of the most lax environmental protection laws, as well as some of the lowest levels of regulations of food safety standards and what chemicals can be added to food-like substances, of any developed nation.

Obesity is a huge problem, probably due the chemical disruption of the human gut biome. For example, bleach treated chicken is a really bad idea, because adding bleach to the human gut kills the the health-supporting gut bacteria.

It has been suggested that the real cause of the fall of the Roman Empire was lead pollution from the drinking water. The American Empire is a lot younger than the Roman Empire, but the pollution levels in America are also so, so much higher.

So… What was I thinking about???