It’s just hard to accept how stupid the average person is. Increasingly I feel like the Eternal September is over, the masses won, and the original contingent of people who made up the internet all left for Valinor.

Of course then I see public posts by people who were involved with the early internet and it often isn’t any better. Perhaps the COVID brain damage theory is correct. As a society it feels like we have lost ~20 IQ points. (Cue the pro-IQ and anti-IQ fanatics now that I mentioned it.)