Why are humans so unexceptional now? Bach started writing music when he was only ten...

i dont know what you are talking about then. no one actually believes in equality.

Okay, but then you contradict your statement here

if you baby swapped a peasant child and an elite child you would have the same outcome where the peasant child now has the training to become "exceptional"

That's just not true, first of all. Second, this is a cognitive dissonance. You cannot simultaneously believe that no one is equal but then believe that nurture is what shapes you. It doesn't. It's entirely genetics. IQ is genetic. Physiognomy is genetic.

youtube.com/watch?v=ltgQC_ZCPk8

15% of the operating principles of the human brain have been isolated and can be reproduced and demonstrated in software. It's another thirty year road until robots are convincing people of a real illusion of existence inside the wires, but that's just the cherry on top. The real threat is that all of you are now unemployable through no fault of your own because robots can do what you do better, and tirelessly, and that causes capitalism to bring the price of your wage down to less than a person needs to support themselves. You're all living in something worse than the Rothchild stoked great depression of 1915 through 1935. Remember when Europe was licked, then all you goyim inmates are once again returned to see the sun, and it will make you all joint orgasm and realize you're all Slaves, each and every one of you without a Currency Moneyfountain of which there are a growing number since now counterfeiting USD isn't a crime anymore.

There’s nothing left to do. All lands have been discovered, conquered, inhabited, and built on. All meaningful information flows freely on the internet between every person on every corner of the planet. Every culture and race has been discovered. There’s simply nothing left of note to achieve as a human

"Humanity would sink into darkness, into a dull and primitive state, if Jews were to win this war."

Nigger, the vast VAST VASSSSST majority of humans are unexceptional, past and present.
Name how many famous or talented people you can. Okay, now compare that to the estimated 108 billion people to have ever lived in history.
You pointing out a couple people in history and acting like they're some metric is fucking asinine
Stupid thread made by a retarded anon.

Why are humans so unexceptional now?

humans are just as exceptional as they always have been
you just aren't seeing them because the multi-trillion dollar advertising industry exists to show (sell) you unexceptional things and drown out anything else

past and present.

Wrong. You can take a look at a gentleman from 1920, observe his physiognomy, and understand that this person is superior to 99% of humans in the world.

When I observe this man's physiognomy, I see a banker. I see a salesman. I see a movie star. I see an entrepreneur. And yet, nobody looks like this anymore. Humans are getting uglier and dumber.

Because the world was more ruthless in the past and there were pressures in place to perform in the real world while now people are free to choose and be laid back about it.
A random top competitive gamer today is objectively more impressive than the two names you described just in terms of pure complexity of the tasks he is performing. The energy is just being channeled in a different way now. Case in point, the energy spent posting in here.

Because the world was more ruthless in the past and there were pressures in place to perform in the real world while now people are free to choose and be laid back about it.

But don't you see how that's a problem? Maybe, just maybe, there's some merit to the idea that "good times create weak men"? Should we not enforce some sort of standard where the working class SHOULD essentially be slaves?

Bachs entire family made music. He didnt need to waste time with bullshit education. He absorbed, adapted and build upon music of his day and age. If you want to be a good composer now I dont even know wtf you can build on except gay post modern shit. Besides this he was also a good musician and improviser.

Literally

Why are humans so unexceptional now?

Wdym? Have you ever been to sharty? Jakkers have started the second fucking renaissance and you are here bitching

It's the other way around.

In the past there was a select few who had the opportunity to do something, if Bach was writing music, he probably wasn't digging the fields, was he?

Today everybody has so much opportunity, nobody is chosen. You can't try something and succeed because everything that was easy is already done, and everything that's hard is an open competition for 7 billion participants.

Being Alexander is easy, just inherit an army from your father and take it gor a spin, he didn't have to win the elections or even build that army, he just got it gifted to him.

Today even the geniuses are competing in a field with 10 million other geniuses.

Today’s bach is playing minecraft and watching brainrot on youtube kids
Today’s Alexander the Great lost his vitality cooming and getting lectured by his single mother

Capitalism .

Talented children aren't allowed to be recognized because it might make the retarded Somalians in class feel bad.

Also this.

Is it a problem? Does the world always have to stay the same forever? The state of the world that you idealize didn't stay the same does that mean it was a problem and that's why it changed? There are still men with the potential for greatness today but their potential is being channeled to irrelevant things like leveling another alt. If I would agree with you that there is a problem the problem is our inability to answer the question "why be great?"

Society is full of extremely easy dopamine hits and distractions. The singular obsessive devotion to a craft necessary is simply not as easily inspired today as it was before.

This. It's what GATE and other similar programs were designed to do.

There was a time when the halls of power afforded protection and patronage only to those who could prove themselves valuable. The monarchs and aristocrats themselves may have been functionally useless, yet the opportunity was there for the impressive to rise up and earn prestige by being entertained and then embraced by the court. Peasants would remain peasants, and the least exceptional may actively be killed for the offense of their existence.
Now things are too global, there are too many people, and the systems are bloated and masturbatory. Where you would have kingdoms in competition to present the greatest athlete or the greatest musician, now the nation that stands in place of a thousand kingdoms simply imports a runner from Africa and slap their flag on it.

doesn't remember the other 10 billion dead people

remembers bach

you need to understand what bias means

Most things by now have already been created and discovered, with the exception of very advanced technology. This is kind of why we're seeing a lull in the entertainment industry. They're creatively bankrupt and are just borrowing ideas from the past, or straight up remaking/remastering shit. And now that AI is so mainstream and widely used, it's only going to get worse.

If you can sit there and come up with something original and good, you can be extremely successful in this environment. But like I said, pretty much everything has already been done at this point.

There are still men with the potential for greatness today

No there isn't. That's the problem. We are all a gray, unexceptional blob of mediocrity. Where is greatness, anon? Because I sure as shit don't see it.

You're right that the world is constantly changing, but the greatest existential threat of our time isn't nuclear bombs or a world war; it is stagnation. The worst thing that mankind could be IS staying the same forever. And that looks like the direction we're heading.

Being Alexander is easy, just inherit an army from your father and take it gor a spin,

Oh and BTW, Alexander was also personally tutored by Aristotle.

It's like being born the King of USA and being raised by John B. Goodenough, then taking the US army to conquer canada and Australia.
With a start like that no retard could possibly fuck it up, the army he inherited came with loyal and experienced generals included.

Almost every "great man" you read about didn't make himself, he was granted everything on a silver platter.

why are humans so unexceptional now

names dome of the most exceptional humans in the history of our species, as if 99.9% of humans living in the time of those great figures weren’t just illiterate peasant farmers tilling the soil until they dropped dead

You’re an idiot OP

conquer

Alexander's conquest was more akin to a parade. That's why the "empire" dissolved immediately after his death. There was no glue holding it together. Alexander was a terrible conqueror, and the pedestal he's so often put upon is a romanticism of his failure.

Almost every "great man" you read about didn't make himself, he was granted everything on a silver platter.

Hitlers family was (non-poor) nobodies, and so was Xis, and so was Putins.

it is stagnation

We are living in the dark age when everything that was worth doing was already done.

In the past being great was as easy as going to the river and picking the gold from the sand, it was just there, laying on the surface.

One dude invents electricity

Another dude invents semiconductor

Third dude invents transistor

Integrated circuit

Computer

Internet

Bam bam bam

Easy, obvious solutions were just laying on the surface waiting for the first guy to stumble upon them.

Right now we are entering the dark age, because we exhausted all the eady and obvious opportunities, you cant just sail off and discover America, you cant just establish the new East Indian Company, everything was already done.

~>75% of elementary school teachers are women

Arrested Development; intentionally stunting the populace mentally & physically - see: Prussian Education system

It's impossible to stay the same forever so don't worry about it. It's like worrying a river will stay the same, it's just not possible to begin with.
We don't see greatness in the same way. Someone who can create real Beauty is a great man and that can happen in the darkest pits of hell if you're really looking for it. If all you perceive by greatness is the ability to lead people then you can look at Trump or Elon or Putin as those kind of figures that represent greatness today. Tbh I kinda agree with this anon
even though I wouldn't want to shit on Alexander. Associating greatness with conquest just seems... uninspiring. I think the man who invented the wheel or a beautiful song is the one who is truly great.

Easy, obvious solutions were just laying on the surface waiting for the first guy to stumble upon them.

Yeah, that's why it took 300k years to discover those, dumb dumb

This is so depressing, all the evidence points that this won't elevate niggers, yet the white man never learns. "Maybe if we just give them more, maybe if we white people have less, then they can be like us!"
How far are we willing to fuck over our white children to address racial inequalities before we're willing to just admit the races aren't equal?

Nurture is as important (if not more) than genetics. Saying its all one or the other is just false.

People knew about electricity for thousands of years, but simply had nothing to use it for until the society and industry developed to the point they could start.

When they started the discoveries started just falling from the sky as soon as they got the tools for them.

The difference is that today they already have had every imaginable tool for a century. They have already made everything that was possible to make, the engineering has caught up with the scientific knowledge and the science has discovered everything about nature and turned inwards to invent 12 dimensions, quants, quarks and bosons that are literally impossible to interact with or utilize in any meaningful way.

They built the LHC, discovered a bunch of theory for the sake of theory to reinforce the theory snd didn't produce literally anything of value. The LHC didn't make the robotic waifus real, it didn't output anything that made any tangible difference to anyone.

youre just a depressed loser that rationalizes his own inaction by saying its too late

for every one of me, there's like three billion OPs

Decline of the West by German philosopher Oswald Spengler:

According to Spengler, the Faustian West has reached its peak and is now in decline. He identifies several factors contributing to this decline:

Civilizational Phase: The Faustian West has entered its civilizational phase, characterized by a focus on material wealth, technology, and bureaucratic organization, rather than creative and spiritual pursuits.

Loss of Organic Unity: Faustian society has become fragmented and disintegrated, losing its organic unity and sense of community.

Decline of Traditional Values: The West has abandoned its traditional values and moral foundations, leading to moral and cultural decay.

Rise of Pseudo-Culture: As the Faustian West declines, it gives rise to pseudo-culture, characterized by superficiality, artificiality, and a lack of genuine spiritual or artistic depth.

elevate niggers,

There are two ways to accomplish equality. Either bring the bottom up, or bring the top down.

If history proves anything is that while you cant enrich the poor, you sure as fuck can impoverish the rich

People knew about electricity for thousands of years

Yet didn't even make a light bulb

but simply had nothing to use it for until the society and industry developed to the point they could start.

Sounds like it wasn't as "obvious" as you say it was since it took 300k y

Talent needs to be nurtured since the very young age, ideally at 1, so both the brain and muscle memory grows with that knowledge. That's why Bach, Mozart and everyone were so great, they had parents and teachers that taught them early.

Here's a fact. There isn't a single genius in the world that started in his field when he was already an adult. All the top hackers? All started when they were young.
You can't disprove this.

Who is Charles Bukowski

People had a battery 2000 years ago, but the only thing they could do with it was to lick the electrodes and say "wow it tingles" maybe electroplate some copper jewelry in silver.

To make a lightbulb you'd need industrially available tungsten and vacuum.
Thomas Edison didn't invent the Tungsten or the entire industry, he had them available, ready to be combined into the lightbulb and he simply happened to be the first guy to figure it out.

Ironically, the bearded guy in the picture (Ignatius) is a brilliant comedian and the director of one of my favorite comedy series in Spain: el fin de la comedia. Great stuff. Monty python meets black humor. ALL RIGHT!

Edison didn't invent the Tungsten or the entire industry, he had them available, ready to be combined into the lightbulb and he simply happened to be the first guy to figure it out.

And it took 300k y so it wasn't as obvious as you claim

He's a Jew

Talent must be recognized, promoted, and awarded or it won't manifest.
Anyone who is exceptional in any capacity learns that the only reward for effort is more entitled demands, which is why children are already acting like the cucks in office space.
Also this.

This also niggers and spics and chinks and jeets and kikes

execute all principals and guidance counselors

108Gppl in history

8Gppl now

1/13 of all ppl in history right now

so where are the geniuses? execute all principals and guidance counselors. execute all divorce judges

the only reward for effort is more entitled demands

execute all divorce judges, principals, and guidance counselors. punch a pastor for Jesus

School systems and other structures quash talent and creativity, yet similtaneously leave people lost and their lives without structure.

the purpose of school is to psychologically damage middle class kids, as the purpose of divorce court is to harvest the wealth of middle class men

Also execute christcucks, but sure.

This is partly right. Nature abhors intelligence. It isn't supposed to exist, its an aberration and poses a direct existential threat to the natural order. Instead of looking at the somali as a somali, think of them as natures self correction mechanism to prevent intelligence in action. Should have left the fruit of knowledge alone.

energy spent posting in here

if a thirteenth of the total global population is alive today, why arent people coming up with brilliant new hymns?

Holy Father, Christ our Brother, let your Light within us shine

teach us how to love each other lead us to the joy divine

amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me

i once as lost but now am found twas Grace that set me free

Jesus loves me this i know, cause the Bible tells me so

hark tis the Shephards voice i hear, out in the desert dark and drear, calling the sheep whove gone astray, out in the wild so far away: bring them in, bring them in, bring them in from the fields of sin