I just published a 5000 word book review entitled Why You Can't Fly on the Concorde (here's the podcast version)
Here's the TLDR
The general intelligence of western civilization is declining precipitously.
- Mostly for the same reasons as portrayed in the first few minutes of the movie Idiocracy.
- Wealth and resources discourage the most intelligent from reproducing.
- Civilizations (Rome, China, "Golden age" Islam) go through cycles of rising and declining intelligence which reflect in the waning of the civilization. Western civilization is now in decline.
it's a black pilling message, but in my conclusion there's a white pill
But ultimately, we don’t need transhumanism to save us from Idiocracy, this problem of declining intelligence could be fixed culturally.