IQ tests improve yet where intelligence has dropped in our nation is in the most important areas.
“We've made no progress whatsoever in terms of our political sophistication, and indeed, young people today may be worse because, thanks to their visual environment, they've stopped reading history and they've stopped reading the world's great literature."“If the lessons to be learned in history were heeded we would have never entered into the present mess we’re in with multiple nations in the Middle East. If our political leaders took the warnings from our founding fathers’ seriously then our nation would have never been in severe debt today. If the next generation is even more ignorant when it comes to the subjects of history and classic literature, common-sense and wisdom will continue to decrease. The only hope for our nation is if the next generation will change their mind and choose to not follow the blueprint which failed for their predecessors.”
Consul Nicholas Moore
"The new frontiers are going to be the burnt out urban centers, so it might be the Millennials who become the homesteaders, farmers, and gardeners of Detroit, or Camden," says Celente. "When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it. And you're going to start seeing a lot of young people losing it in a lot of different ways."
“Gerald Celente, Editor and Publisher of the Trends Journal, believes the depressed livelihoods of today's younger generation — "generation eff'ed" as he refers to it in a recent edition of his magazine — will lead to a revolution of sorts.”
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