There are any number of conspiracy theories running around the web, bouncing around social media echo chambers. They are pretty easy to start and spread quicker than than a bad smell in a sauna. Rumours get bumped up to conspiracies in the blink of an eye. Some just seem totally absurd, it would seem unlikely that Biden orchestrated the shooting of Trump. Others, such as the idea that Musk changed the Twitter to X because this was the closest he could legally get to a Swastika seem absurd but are somewhat thought provoking.
Blennus m (genitive blennī); second declension (derogatory) blockhead, dolt, simpleton
Back to the Great Dumbing down conspiracy. I’ve mentioned this before, I should have had a genius level IQ but I got exposed to high levels of lead pollution when I was a kid. So this is very personal!
Let’s go the full monty, there is a secret cabal of of people who are actively doing everything they can to make all the rest of us stupid. The reason for this? The more stupid we are the easier we are to control.
How is this being done?
Warfare has been the go to strategy for millennia now. People start getting tetchy about silly little things. Like not having enough food, unjust oppression by the elite, being taxed too much, whatever. The easiest way to head off a revolt is to demonise another group of people, tell your lot that their problems are because of the other lot and declare war. You then enlist loads of people and head them off to be hacked, shot or blown to death somewhere far away. The nobles have some fun, they may win more territory and they get rid of potential rebels. They also remove thousands of relatively fit people from the breeding population.
Unfortunately, for the elite, this strategy has never been really efficient at dumbing us down. Fortunately, for said elite, scientific research has thrown up a whole bunch of ways that are much more efficient and mean that we do it to ourselves. A sort of auto-dumbing if you will.
Lead
Back in the day an elite shot themselves in the foot because they used lead as a sweetener in wine and also as make-up. This, in part, led to the collapse of the system that maintained this elite. Some say the Brits did it too, they colonised huge tracts of the planet but didn’t appreciate the food they found there. ‘It’s not proper English food’ they would complain. To get around this problem they got hampers of ‘proper food’ delivered, a sort of early Uber-eats. These hampers contained tins of food, these tins were soldered together using solder which is an alloy of tin and lead. Lead seriously dumbs you down. It was however dumbing down the ‘wrong’ people.
How would it be possible to mass distribute lead into the population and have people pay to do it to themselves? Simple, add it to petrol. The more cars there are the stronger the effect. “Yes but the elite will be breathing it in too” I hear you shout. In Europe and the USA the elites live in the western parts of cities. The prevailing winds blow from west to east so the pollution heads straight to the ‘common people’.
You may be wondering if the lead pollution has really dumbed us down? If so read this study “Leaded gasoline calculated to have stolen more than 800 million cumulative IQ points since the 1940s”
All good things come to an end and, despite decades of resistance, lead in petrol is illegal in most countries. Seeing how well that worked the elite decided to find other ways to get ourselves to dumb our selves down.
Food.
Everyone needs it and it’s easy for the elite to avoid highly processed food. Making fake food that will cause cognitive decline (posh way of saying dumbing down) is easy. Making it popular is easy too, just make it cheaper than the fruit and veg which you don’t want people eating because a good diet makes us smarter. We’re all busting a gut working to pay our debts, put food on the table and all the other bills. What we need is ‘fast food’, simple and efficient. Now we can come home from work, bung some things in the microwave sit with the kids on the sofa watch TV and eat our fake food.
It must have been upsetting for the elite that we have renamed these foods ‘ultra-processed’, even worse is that some naughty scientists have shown that they are VERY bad for us. This isn’t a major problem yet for the conspiracists, we all still rush to buy ultra-processed foods and they are still much cheaper than the healthy real foods.
Do ultra_processed foods help this global conspiracy? Well just have a read of this research “Eating ultra-processed foods tied to cognitive decline.” So far calls for legislation to ban these fake foods are having trouble getting any traction, the conspiracists are simply using the same strategies they used to oppose banning leaded petrol.
Chemicals
A stroke of evil genius. You create artificial molecules that hammer intelligence and you get people to buy them. Just as an example we can talk about perchlorate. Used in food packaging, in fireworks and in airbags, amongst other uses. Perchlorate is everywhere, in our food, our water and in our bodies. This chemical messes up our thyroids. Women who carry a percholate load will have children with below average IQ levels when compared to other children. It may be that you have been wondering why so many billionaires decided to build rockets? The fuel needed contains perchlorates so it’s another way to have some fun and dumb us down.
Perhaps other molecules are doing a similar insidious job. Yes, they are everywhere. There was a time when it was lead and mercury that hammered our IQ’s, the levels of these contaminants have been slowly dropping. Their role in the Great Global Conspiracy has been taken over by the molecules used in flame retardents (polybormated diphenyl ethers) and pesticides (organophosphates). Boom! An “IQ drop from 27 million IQ points in 2001 and 2002 to 9 million IQ points in 2015 and 2016.”
Malnutrition
Obviously having a diet based mainly on ultra-processed foods is a form of malnutrition but even in ‘rich’ countries like the UK many people don’t have enough to eat. According to government statistics, 4.2 million people (6 per cent) were living in food poverty in 2020 to 2021. It includes nearly one in 10 children, around 9 per cent. Can it be that malnutrition has a negative impact on IQ? Oh yes and in a big way “Malnutrition In Early Years Leads To Low IQ And Later Antisocial Behavior”
Sleep
Essential for good health and something that too many people don’t get enough of. “If only we could create environments that make it difficult for people to get a good nights sleep.” said the conspiracists. “Make sure that poor neighbourhoods are too noisy, light them up all night and ensure that the bedrooms are difficult to keep cool” replied their advisors. This way people and especially children don’t get the quality of sleep they need and “Sleep Disorders Can Impair Children's IQs As Much As Lead Exposure.”
Climate change
What? Can climate change impact our IQ? Yes it can and does. Heatwaves are getting more severe, last longer and are more frequent. Heat slows the old brain down, it also tends to make us more aggressive and miserable. A four-degree increase (°F) led to a 10 percent average drop in performance across tests of memory, reaction time and executive functioning.
Unfortunately, from the depraved point of view of the conspiracists, climate change is turning out to be a two-edged sword. When it’s hot people are less efficient in their jobs, this impacts the wealth accumulation of the conspiracists. They need wealth in order to avoid everything they have put into place to dumb us down. This explains why some, a minority of the conspiracists, are trying to reduce global warming whilst others want it to get worse.
Recreational drugs
This one went seriously wrong for the conspiracists because Cocaine became very popular with their children, they noticed that their grandchildren were being dumbed down. This explains why, governments are pushed by the elite to ‘wage war on drugs’. But still “up to 80,550 new children will fail in school because they were exposed to cocaine in the womb.” Children in the cocaine-exposed group, on average, had IQ scores 3.26 lower than children who were not exposed to the drug.
Today we have dumbing down molecules everywhere, we live in environments that encourage cognitive decline and we eat foods that do the same. Yet we do nothing, we suspect nothing, we continue as if all is well. This is because the conspiracy is so well hidden.
How do you hide this Great Global Conspiracy?
Simple, you create rumours and conspiracy factories that continually pump them out. The real Conspiracy goes unnoticed as we all get in a blather about the fake ones. In order to ensure that the fake conspiracies spread easily just meant having control of the traditional news media and encouraging some youngsters to create social media networks.
These youngsters then become opinionated billionaires and think themselves competent to have strong points of view on any number of subjects they know nothing about. They then go on to share these views through the media and thus draw attention away from the puppet masters who manipulate them from the shadows.
The conspiracists also amuse themselves watching how even the most absurd fake conspiracy theories get spread around and find believers. They chuckle at how this is helped by the dumbing down of the population. From their point of view a ‘positive’ feedback loop.
There are some people who believe that the Covid conspiracy was also managed by the same conspiracists that run the Great Global Conspiracy. Their argument is that the conspiracists became worried about the ‘great demographic shock‘. Ageing populations, maintain the elite, mean that there are fewer actively working people economically supporting a burgeoning number of retired people. Having so much money go to these people rather than into their own pockets is something that the conspiracists don’t like. They are also worried about productivity declining and impacting their revenue streams.
What could they do? Well according to the Covid conspiracy they created a virus that is particularly deadly to older people. By contaminating packages that were distribute around the world by a major popular network the virus was rapidly spread around the world. Unfortunately for the conspiracists governments slipped their leash and started locking down their populations. This laminated economic production and they had to react fast and bring out experimental vaccines.
I don’t have a point of view on this sub-conspiracy, I don’t know if there is any truth in it.
One thing that is sure that the conspiracists are worried about demographic change (rather than seeing it as the good thing that it is). They don’t want their income streams being negatively affected, as they see it. Demographic change is happening because ‘silly people’, from the conspiracists point of view are refusing to have enough children. Pressure has been mounting on governments to intervene but so far little has changed.
How can we fight against this Conspiracy?
Well, and I say this whilst at the same time recognising that my IQ got hammered, the answers are in all my other articles! I hope you enjoy them.