>>12889702>So if degeneracy is rewarded, intelligence suffers; it's an vicious circle. A descending spiral into decadence.intelligence is the degeneration of common sense knowledge. (What I mean by that is: to create new intelligence is to collapse [ie. to degenerate {verb}] several distinct pieces of knowledge into a smaller set of simpler rules that still encompass all the old knowledge.) Intelligence makes life easier. An easy life only leads to decadence if you have no self control; that is, if you are the type of person that is incapable of creating intelligence on your own. That type of person tends to cling to the rules they learned as children and will not accept simplification even if it makes life easier.
