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 Does if feel like some people you know who were really smart 10 years ago have lost 20 IQ and act like complete idiots now?

Is it me who's changed, them, or both? 🤔  
 Probably a bit of both.  
 And who knows? Maybe they see me the same way 😅 
 Complacency is a bitch 
 I think it’s a combination of things. Some people stop learning, others ossify, some don’t stop learning. 

Improving 1% a day can give you that “IQ” jump? lol 
 intelligence without the guts to face reality as it is , is wasted. 
 How much of this is we make our private lives public now? Just thought about this last night and maybe they were dumber than we thought, we just didn’t see all the stupidity before? 
 Got a dose of that brainwashing...
 
 Man, I can't tell you how much mental clarity I gained from letting go of political ideologies and all the propaganda I still held onto. That stuff is a complete brain drain. 
 It's all about division. 

Blue or Red

Straight or they/them

How you feel, now trumps cold hard facts.
This is what happens when you give idiots, I mean your citizens, the freedom to be stupid.
The worst part is when the government uses these stupid people, for their own evil objectives.  
 I was 145 and now I'm 120

I got sick from the vaccine then kept retesting and watching it go down...

causes brain inflammation 
 IQ is a psyop, but it does seem like folks lose their reasoning ability, or more accurately, their critical thinking capacity over time 🤷‍♂️ 
 Curiosity is an underrated attribute 
 Yes, I definetely lost 20 points. Voluntarily. It's easier to live that way 😂 
 Feels good 🧠📉