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Assuming the Worst

Todd Hayen

I used to think that people were pretty smart. Meaning if I were walking down the street, or through a crowded mall, I could be pretty certain that most people I ran into were at a certain level of intelligence.

What do they say? That the average IQ is 100? And when you start getting really low in IQ, the number of people who have that lower IQ gets smaller and fewer in number. It is like the classic bell curve. The middle of the bell curve is the number of people with an IQ of 100; outliers on either side get lower or higher.

That’s what I used to think.

For whatever reason, it felt safer knowing that most people you “saw” were not utter morons. Even if you had interactions with people in stores, or per chance bumping into someone and exchanging words, it was not like you were on some distant planet trying to have a conversation with a humanoid alien (or lizardman) who had zero experience communicating with a real human.

Don’t get me wrong. I use the phrase “utter moron” not out of disrespect for humans with low IQs. There was a time that psychologists actually used the terms “moron, imbecile, and idiot” officially to denote IQ levels. (Those with an IQ of 0 to 25, were called idiots, 26 to 50 were called imbeciles and 51 to 70 were called morons.) Of course, today these terms are considered offensive, so no longer used (except by insensitive dickwhacks like me). So, I don’t mean it offensively (well, maybe in the context of this article it is meant offensively).

Something I didn’t realize back then as well, is that what I was observing had little to do with IQ or intelligence. It was more about “common sense.”

Sure, there are times where the degree of “common sense” is directly related to IQ or intelligence, but feeling safer around people with higher IQs really has never been a logical assumption. It was the “common sense factor”…CSF, rather than IQ, that made me feel more comfortable—an assumption, which back then was a plausible assumption, that most people had at least an average CSF.

So, life went on this way. Living among other humans, more or less the same as me. Ha.

I have no way to know, however, if my assumption was accurate, but I think it was more accurate then than it is today. In fact, now there is no assumption that all of the people I run across in a casual way—in the mall, on the street, in a crowded theatre, etc.—have an average CSF. Actually, it is rather obvious they do not. And even if it is not visually or behaviourally obvious, I can be relatively certain most people I run across are below average on the CSF scale.

This conclusion I’ve come to I’ve based on the results of a concentrated effort I’ve made over the years (since 2019) to assess people and their actions and lack of understanding regarding Covid, vaccines, politics, world events, the New World Order efforts, etc. I am very sad to say my assessment has not come out very well.

Sure, I have no way to know if suddenly the human race has been affected by some space ray they all have been exposed to (ala the meteor shower in the Sci-Fi thriller of the ‘60s The Day of the Triffids) or if EMF, or 5G, or fluoride, or poisonous water, or vaccines, or drugs in general, or food, or whatever, has poisoned the minds of so many people. Or if this is a recent phenomenon, like DNA manipulation or spike protein affectation of the brain (however, if something that recent is the culprit, it would not explain why people took the Covid jab in the first place).

If people have indeed been affected for decades, then I was under a false illusion back when I was younger, assuming these crowds of people I routinely came into contact with were “safe”—more than likely they never were. However, TV, films, and whatnot always gave the impression (or at least most of them did) that average every day people were all relatively the same—they all had the same fears, the same desires, the same fallacies, and most importantly, the same level of common sense.

Just for yucks, let’s assume this reality—that most people are below an acceptable CSF—is rather recent. This assumption makes grappling with all this a little easier. It is then easier to realize the agenda’s hand in it all. Although the agenda has been working its black magic for decades, if not centuries (if not since Mr. Snake coerced Eve to eat his apple), let’s assume for a magic moment that most of this meddling is recent, meaning within the last 150 years, starting its major campaigns of manipulation during the first World War, and continuing in earnest throughout the 20th Century and now into the 21st. (As I write this, I realize it goes back, for certain, earlier than this, but bear with me).

So maybe, just maybe, the agenda’s influence on the average every day person has upped in magnitude during the last 30 years or so (that wasn’t that long ago), and it is an exponential “up”—meaning it has doubled in the last 10 years. So, the masses in my childhood were more “normal” than the masses now. Then there is more reason to “assume the worst” while walking down the street on a nice sunny day, and running into people who do not appear to be a problem, but could be completely inept if a problem came up.

So what? Well, if this is true, it means we have to be more on our toes than we think we need to be. We have to always have a plan if things go wrong, because more than likely the person next to you on the street or in the mall will not be able to help you. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily.

The agenda has been trying for years to convince us that we are not in danger as long as they are there to assist us. No one needs to carry a gun, or have a weapon handy, because the criminals who are possibly around the corner will be quelled by the government’s efforts (police or whatnot).

There is no need to take responsibility for the safety of oneself or family because the government has that covered.

There is no need to take care of your own health, because the government-run healthcare system knows how to take care of us with more pills, more chemicals in the water and the air, etc.

You are safe, because the agenda makes you safe through its control over you and the environment.

In reality, you are not safe. Not at all. You need to be aware, be responsible, and think.

Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here

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Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 17, 2025 11:49 AM

it felt safer knowing that most people you “saw” were not utter morons.

What a Great Delusion that was. Fortunately the SRF & Billionaires gave us OPERATION COVIDIUS and from that day forward we (still very few, go figure!) know that Reality is that most “people” are indeed utter morons.

Jak
Jak
Aug 17, 2025 10:29 AM

It was a pleasure to read and realize I’m not the only one who thinks this way. When I was a schoolkid I realized that many people I knew weren’t as smart, including neighbors, some teachers etc, but they were not stupid either. They were reasonable and had common sense. They gathered wisdom from their (and other’s) experiences and tried their best with the abilities they had.

Now, at 57, I don’t know anybody at all who is not stupid, at least in some sense. This includes my wife, parents, brothers and most friends, all of whom have an above average IQ, (based on way above average school grades and work success). Most of them have a university level education (I’m in Europe where education still is reasonably good). Yet, there is nothing to discuss anymore, so it is better to mostly shut up. Somehow they’ve become indoctrinated to stop thinking for themselves. Compared to older generations, people today don’t understand what they don’t understand. Instead of trying to find out or think for themselves, thay just blindly want to believe things they can’t explain or reason. Worse, they can’t tolerate people who don’t agree with their baseless beliefs.

2020 was the eye opener when I lost all hope. With at least 90% falling for the stupid face diaper and wonder-injection, most of them still convinced despite all the evidence, what’s the point in talking to them? The list of narratives that are beyond ridiculous (and would have been to most people just 30-40 years ago) is too long to mention.

Here in Europe, I’m not so worried about my safety (yet), but I can’t believe how our leaders have destroyed our future. First with massive immigration of “Syrian refugees”, with only a handful of them actually being Syrian and most of them being military age men. Then by the lockdowns “for two weeks” which lasted over a year. And then being hellbent on giving all our money and defenses to a war we have nothing to with and breaking every rule and relationship with countries outside the West. Now the finances are much worse, lost access to affordable energy, industry is dying, have made an enemy of our neighbor and isolated ourselves from the rest of the world, while at the same time our culture and peace is being destroyed from within. I’m lucky to have had some good years in my life and I’m ready to go if this is it for the future, but the fate of the younger generations sadden me.

It was still a pleasure to find that there are more of us who are not complete fools, even if it is on the other side of the world.

Madie
Madie
Sep 27, 2025 5:18 AM
Reply to  Jak

There are more of us. But this article is reminding me of all I’m trying to ignore in order to move on. I too have lived a blissful European life with journeys and comfort and safety, but I left all that to run to a stinky place in Asia 4 years ago when I realized that there is no limit to how idiotic people are. Family, friends, colleagues… Reading the newspaper as the Bible. ( maybe it’s always been like this but people read the Bible instead so that justified their stupidity better ?) I am happy about my decision because I have 3 young children and I want them to have some sort of future.
I feel chances are bigger on a good life here. I pray they will find partners from Asia, learn the cultures and languages that will matter from now on and get stimulated as I think we once were in Europe. I close my door behind Europe and feel no need whatsoever to return. Leaving everyone I loved behind- because I need to protect my family first. My husband luckily is awake so this was possible, but I’m sure it was harder for you if you didn’t get the support while logic was taken over by cretins, idiots and morons. …

I wish we could somehow influence those “ educated “ family members and friends of ours to snap out of it and go back to being average , or normal , but I broke my teeth trying and all in vain. It’s hopeless. The only way is to read and meet those that are seeing the reality like us

Jim
Jim
Aug 17, 2025 3:54 AM

One of the best articles I’ve ever read. It “rings true”.

Owen
Owen
Aug 4, 2025 5:18 PM

I find it amusing that people are debating a definition of common sense. If one needs to do that then perhaps one was not born with it.
In early life I could see most people lacked a certain something which I could not then define as I did not have the maturity and experience. So I just kept my mouth shut. However, now I understand as I observe that most people are just plain stupid and the current environment is capitalizing on that by dumbing them down even further with all the various things mentioned in the article and more.
IQ is bullshit, education is bullshit, we are human beings not a score (unless musical!).

Please consider the presentation – “Why intelligent people scare society – Schopenhauer” *1. The video is superfluous, you need only listen.

Many thanks Todd! Once again I knew it was your article by the title alone.

Best regards to all.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgCeoxToek

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 4, 2025 10:25 PM
Reply to  Owen

Thanks! I do find intelligence (the IQ sort) and education useful. It certainly is not a metric for “smart, clever, and wise” people, although often the two do go together.

That said, there is way too much emphasis on IQ, education, and “intelligence”…I find myself to be fairly smart, clever, even wise at times (NOT impressively so!), and I graduated High School with a 1.2. (D-) average.

I did well on some abstract reasoning standard exam, which freaked everyone out (this abstract reasoning exam I think it interesting in measuring some sort of “common sense”…”which pattern is likely to be the next in the sequence” sort of thing). So who knows.

I love learning, and have pursued higher education in psychology (PhD), which I do feel has improved me as a person and as a thinker.

Madie
Madie
Sep 27, 2025 5:33 AM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Sure. Fair enough. But I was the opposite. I never studies and excelled in ALL. Sports and woodworking included. I got in the university I wanted and realized most of what I was learning was preparing me for a corporate world I refused to join. I did hence not spend additional 180k on a master which I had planned and started my own business.
I travelled ( journey for fun not stops in airports ) to 58 countries and counting. And after taking 10 years off to raise my 3 little children, I recently started a new venture in a field I’ve never imagined I would before. And I’m like a fish in the water!! This is a foreign country where the language is very difficult ( though I am a polyglot )

I suck at the IQ tests ( not that I actually tied one but the logic figurative stuff never appealed to me ).

I never believed in IQ scores, I stoped believing in grades when I realized how people with one neuron managed to get degrees ( took out kids from school several times and went on two world tours instead ). and after the Covid experiment I also
stopped believing in common sense.

Common sense is only common to the small western society. The common sense of other cultures is completely different!

I moved, with the family, to the other side of the world because I refused to let my children see my beloved Europe crumble and wanted to take them as far from the morons, idiots and cretins as possible.
Now, I’m trying to lean a new common sense in Asia and I discover mountains of insight and riches of culture , power, and knowledge which finally keeps me interested, learning and humbled, but more importantly I realize people gather in small communities common sense is only applicable to very small groups of people not nations or species !

No matter what Hollywood was telling us.

Madie
Madie
Sep 27, 2025 5:48 AM
Reply to  Madie

Sorry for the typos, wrote from phone, don’t know how to edit.

Jos
Jos
Aug 7, 2025 10:50 AM
Reply to  Owen

The people I find the least likely to reason logically are those whose education (usually at the upper echelons of educational establishments) has convinced them in some smug, self-satisfied way, that the status quo is the only quo. The moon landing was mentioned as an unequivocal reality and I couldn’t hold back asking what these academics I was talking to think about the idea that the footage was faked, referencing many anomalies including the Nixon phone call with the astronauts, the footage panning up to show the lunar module leaving the moon surface. They went quiet but didn’t concede that just a modicum of research might be a good idea. And then I backed down because that’s what I do now. I said ‘Sorry – this is what I think because I’ve spent a long time looking into this but you have the absolute right to believe what you think too.’ Because actually what is the point in wasting energy trying to convince anyone else that they’re wrong? It requires a total upending of their view of their world which may be more cruel than kind. And it assumes that the weird world we believe we’re living in is more real than the logical, ordered world they think they’re living in. If reality is being questioned, all bets are off. And this is just my opinion ‘for entertainment purposes only’ as a lot of truthers now feel they have to say.

antonym
antonym
Aug 4, 2025 8:27 AM
Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Aug 3, 2025 7:55 PM

We have to always have a plan if things go wrong, because more than likely the person next to you on the street or in the mall will not be able to help you.

That is why personal responsibility is key. Something I have mentioned on numerous occasions. No assuming others, especially government are going to help. Being prepared, using common sense and having situational awareness.

It is not only that the average person may not be able to help you, it maybe neither are they willing to. Or worse still, they may have entered fight or flight mode and see you as threat or anyone else for that matter.

Allies and foes may arise from the strangest quarters. Pehaps, to use your terms, a ‘sheep’ becomes an ally and a ‘shrew’ an enemy. After all, a well prepared, independent shrew will see everyone that they do not know or trust as a threat including you.

If the SHTF on a grand scale, finding alliances with unknown quantities will be extremely difficult. The best bet is to get as far away as possible from other people outside your trusted circle and stay away until the situation calms down or the competition (everyone else) expires.

The urge to survive is a funny thing and some will go to any lengths to ensure it is their survival over yours.

dviouravey
dviouravey
Aug 3, 2025 6:07 PM

My friends and families intelligence now has them on vaccine number 7 and now wearing masks due to covid cases increasing.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 12:31 AM
Reply to  dviouravey

Where is that (which country)?

Maybe that is why they are now developing robots to take over some society functions. Even a robot would not be so stupid.

Jim
Jim
Aug 17, 2025 3:59 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Oh…they might be that stupid. Robots know nothing except what they are programmed to know.There is not really any AI…only RI – Real Intelligence.So if robots are programmed by stupid people(which they mostly are)…then they will be stupid robots, no matter how smart they are.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 3, 2025 3:30 PM

I like Dr.Hayen’s articles, they open interesting debates.
Now I will assume the Wurst mit Senf und Bier 🤪

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 12:36 AM
Reply to  Hornbach

Guten Appetit. As Sam2 has left it to the collective here to make justice, I wanna point out that your Wurst has absolutely nothing to do with the article!
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Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 5, 2025 7:44 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Mmmmm…the best of the wurst. Makes me miss the Midwest US.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 6, 2025 11:32 PM

;-).

happy by nature
happy by nature
Aug 3, 2025 12:14 PM

Hello Todd,
Thank you for your article! I sometimes have the same feeling and came to the conclusion that I’m getting old 😉 Many of our seniors must think that the overall CSF is dying at the speed of light.
My comment is an extra dimension – I like your conclusions too!
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landy
landy
Aug 3, 2025 10:54 AM

Experts on common sense and I.Q test thinking a Mensa test or finishing college then Uni and doing an Masters makes one clever.

andrew kimber
andrew kimber
Aug 3, 2025 10:28 AM

Unlike Todd, I spent most of my adult life thinking the majority are stupid and lack common sense,but couldn’t prove it. Events in the last few years have proved me right.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 12:38 AM
Reply to  andrew kimber

So, Covid WAS good for something. It opened all the good guy’s eyes.

Owen
Owen
Aug 4, 2025 4:28 PM
Reply to  andrew kimber

So true

correspondencecommitttee
correspondencecommitttee
Aug 3, 2025 8:22 AM

IQs will no longer be needed when AI takes over and human identity is reduced to 0s and 1s.

correspondencecommitttee
correspondencecommitttee
Aug 3, 2025 7:59 AM

Quantifying quality by numerically measuring intelligence may be one of the dumbest ideas, or beliefs, or superstitions of modern enlightenment.* That’s hyperbole, of course, since science has proven immeasurably useful to those who control it as a means of dumbing down entire populations with all manner of pseudoscience.

Given that common sense or meaning of the world has been drastically reconstituted by such science of social engineering (as with use of IQs for eugenics), it’s no wonder common sense as practical intelligence has been lost to monopolies of knowledge as power to rule people’s minds. Autonomous inquiry, thinking for oneself, is replaced by obedience to authority of what the experts say as the bought and paid for equivalent of priests instructing the faithful to follow the Science with the same trust, or uninformed consent, as might be rendered to God made in the image of ruling powers.

Intelligence is no single thing or entity. It’s a word, capable of referring to innumerable instances of conscious activity and creation. That would be our common sense if we were free to be present to ourselves and others to appreciate the common marvels of our minds amid the wonders of living. But our common lot is labor for the few for the sake of their pyramid schemes, and our minds, just like Adam Smith portrayed with pin factory workers, are enslaved to their machinery of production and profit, with little leisure for re-creation of a common world.

We live in a world where the best and brightest, who no doubt have genius IQs compared to the rest of us low achievers and bottom feeders, oversee insanity as a system, rationalize irrationality, and defend the indefensible in order to keep us putting two and two together as five. Under such circumstances, revolution seems about the only intelligent response. But how much common sense among our own kind is left to remake the world in the image of freedom among equals? 

*A classic critique is found in Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man (1981), republished (1996) in conjunction with the eugenics revival represented by Murray and Hernstein’s The Bell Curve (1994).

landy
landy
Aug 3, 2025 11:03 AM

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Johnny
Johnny
Aug 3, 2025 7:59 AM

Rumour has it that Bill Gates has an IQ of 160, placing him in the genius category.
Though when it comes to human relations his FUCK YOU! level is off the scale.

Human values
Human values
Aug 3, 2025 8:30 AM
Reply to  Johnny

The same has been said about Hitler without any evidence.

David McBain
David McBain
Aug 4, 2025 5:34 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Maybe we should ask who started the rumour.

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 4, 2025 7:05 AM
Reply to  David McBain

His self?

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Aug 4, 2025 5:21 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Big brains don’t necessarily lead to good judgment and wisdom.

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 6:20 AM

Dr. Hayen/Todd (which do you prefer? I don’t know you from Adam), I was wondering — what percentage of us westerners do you reckon are awake? On a related note, what percentage of us might be required to influence the outcome of the ruling class’s Agenda? Do you suppose we’ve had any sort of impact already, and if so, what examples of this might you put forth?

I suppose I’m looking for seeds of hope, if any or to be found. As a Christian, my ultimate source of hope ought to be my trust in Christ, and salvation through His sacrifice. However I’m also quite an anxious person, and don’t really wish to live through the seemingly impending Last Days (though I obviously should try not to abandon my young sons through death either).

Oy vey iz mir.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 3, 2025 7:04 AM

Nice Christian name and quotes from torah 😁

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 8:30 AM
Reply to  Hornbach

My name is an anagram for “barroom grifter”. I was born and raised Jewish, but was pretty agnostic until the pandemic. I then realised somethubg very dark was at play, and figured it might be an ideal time to repent and get to know Jesus.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 12:30 PM

I guessed. My mom was Cairo-borne, and spoke Arabic, French, English, Italian, Yiddish, and a bit of Greek. She married a British Eighth Army officer. Had to sign papers stating that any children of the marriage would be brought up as Catholics so they’d let my parents marry in St Joseph’s Cathedral, Cairo. All Saints, November 1st 1943.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Aug 3, 2025 7:58 PM

Converso

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 8:35 AM
Reply to  Hornbach

Also, Yinglish has no relation to the Torah. “Oy vey iz mir” literally means “pain is with me” in Yiddish (low German).

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 3, 2025 11:31 AM

Thank you and apologies, I am totally ignorant of torah or yiddish and that was intended as a joke. I cannot say anything about finding Jesus, it is your personal quest, my religious experience can be resumed to my only prayer at the church, looking around me : “God, please help me believe like they do”. After so many years that prayer remained unanswered.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 12:49 AM
Reply to  Hornbach

Wrong prayer. Your prayer will only be heard if it is a prayer by heart.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 12:40 PM

Torah/Schmorah. You should have met my whingeing chain-smoking hypochondriac maternal grandmother Rachel. She tried living, in the UK, USA, but moved to Israel because it was the place she hated LEAST. 30 years in Hadar Josef and refused to learn Hebrew. Oy vey indeed.
In 95 my uncle took me to the graveyard outside Natanya where she lies next to her mother, Bobbie, who reportedly spoke 19 languages. I only met her once, when I was 3.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 12:23 PM

You sound like my deceased mother before she totally anglicised.

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 12:36 PM
Reply to  ariel

To be fair, I have rel9cated from the US to the UK (Ground Zero for the NWO — Lucky me.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:48 PM

So? I’m here too. I took a good look at the USA again in 2015 when I was invited to do the SunDance in South Dakota. I went prepared to stay. I had lived in the USA for several years previously, but nothing opened up. I spent 7 months in Ireland in 2014/15, and that was BEFORE the shit started hitting the fan, where it presently resides. And ran into more brick walls. The rot had already set in, and I recognised that a lot of places were going to boil over in the near future, not to mention Israel.
So we turn our attention to being here now, in the present. Bear in mind that a lapse of attention while driving, or during wartime, which THIS IS.WHERE WE ARE NOW, can have painful to fatal results.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 12:45 AM

Maria Aurora von Spiegel, born Fatima, also referred to as FatimeFatima Kariman or Fatima von Kariman, was the Ottoman Turkish mistress of Augustus II the Strong of Poland and Lithuania. https://youtu.be/klb3W5HVU_0 .

Jim
Jim
Aug 17, 2025 4:07 AM

“Be anxious for nothing”…but bring everything thru prayer – Jesus.
And we are all about to go thru the Last Days, including all Christians…but what’s the worst that can happen to us? We die. And go on to our eternal calling. As the book of Hebrews(in the New Testmanet) says – absent from the body, present with the Lord. So it may be tough, but all good.

jlk
jlk
Aug 3, 2025 4:31 AM

Just the fact that most cashiers (the human ones) cannot make change in their head is very disturbing to me. No math ability at all.

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 6:22 AM
Reply to  jlk

Really? This is truly surprising. My 4-year-old can do mental maths and make change. It’s a pretty basic task, and any cashier worth his or her salt ought to be able to do this without the aid of a machine.

What happens in the event of a blackout?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 12:54 AM

A lot of people will act like small crying children. Government MOMMYYYY.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 12:43 PM
Reply to  jlk

All cashiers across Europe have been using calculators for at least 30 years. I persist in doing simple sums in my head. Use it or lose it.

Lulu
Lulu
Aug 4, 2025 1:28 AM
Reply to  jlk

Nor can they (the majority of younger cashiers in Canada) count the cash (notes and coins) you hand to them as payment. Also, they just plonk into your hand the change the cash register tells them to give you – they are unable to count it out as they give it to you, as used to be the norm.

Another pet peeve… ALL stores now say “Would you like a receipt?” You bet I do!
What if I want to return the goods because of defect, or find a problem with the change you didn’t count out, or don’t have proof of my payment when asked, or just want to have a record of what I bought, when, and at what price?

Also – a little long-winded, sorry – in British Columba, Canada, there’s this assinine policy of having to pay for your gas (petrol) before you can pump it. If using a credit card, a $ amount can be ‘authorized’ at the pump (which posts that charge against your account), and if you pump less than that amount, you have to wait up to a couple of days for the credit card to adjust what was actually charged. This means a receipt is necessary for proof of what was authorized and what was actually pumped, and for subsequent financial reconciliation!
If cash was paid for what you guesstimate you will pump, and you pump less than that amount (bad guess) you have to go back into the gas station store and ask for the difference to be reimbursed. What if you have no receipt and the cashier is incompetent or dishonest?

Excellent article and choice of topic, Todd, which so very many of us seem to be pondering these days…

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Aug 4, 2025 5:36 PM
Reply to  Lulu

…in British Columba, Canada, there’s this assinine policy of having to pay for your gas (petrol) before you can pump it. If using a credit card, a $ amount can be ‘authorized’ at the pump (which posts that charge against your account), and if you pump less than that amount, you have to wait up to a couple of days for the credit card to adjust what was actually charged. This means a receipt is necessary for proof of what was authorized and what was actually pumped, and for subsequent financial reconciliation!

If cash was paid for what you guesstimate you will pump, and you pump less than that amount (bad guess) you have to go back into the gas station store and ask for the difference to be reimbursed. What if you have no receipt and the cashier is incompetent or dishonest?

We have this policy in the States also. I’m guessing it arose as gas stations moved from full service to self service. Self service allows for an easier getaway if one wants to pump and run. When I first started driving many moons ago, it was possible to pump the gas and then pay. Too many drive-offs stopped that.

As for the credit/receipt issue: I once paid for some gas, came back out forgetting to pump it, and drove off down the road. Once I realized I hadn’t gotten my gas, I returned to the gas station. I didn’t have a receipt, but they remembered me, and told me if the gas didn’t get pumped within so many minutes, the transaction would be cancelled and the money returned to my card account. I don’t know what would have happened if I’d paid with cash.

Same principle applies if one pays pays for 20 and only needs 17; the remaining three is supposed to be re-credited to one’s account.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Aug 3, 2025 2:58 AM

Man lacks the humility to know they are idiots. Everybody is led to think that they have to have an opinion on everything and then the propagandists fight over growing their herd of believers; it is pounded into people that their opinion is important.

The only people with common sense are the ones who are happy to admit that they do not know the truth, the facts etc and are happy to operate withing the teachings provided by their own personal experience. Wander out of your own experience and you birth an idiot.

Why do people trust the government, the same government that has done so much wrong in the world and now has 25% of the working population of the UK doing nothing; while Starmer is busy supporting the oligarchs controlling Ukraine and Israel. Do you really think the British elites are not punishing you for Brexit? Who knows, who cares.

The government is not benevolent (remember Covid), neither are the oligarchs that control them. How do I know? Watch poor people when they meet rich people, you must have seen such an event in your own life, the fact that the rich person is rich seems to completely change the poor person into an idiot. The rich person has no such concern, they just have contempt for the poor person. I know this because of personal experience, not TV.

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 3, 2025 2:49 AM
Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 6, 2025 11:26 PM
Reply to  Johnny

From the link:
Is it not interesting that the Jews formally declared war on Germany in 1933 long before the Hitler government began restricting the rights of German Jews in 1935;” (my add).

‘The background further was a German economy in tatters after the US wall street crack in 1929.
Off course this world jew war declaration on all German goods in an very sensible economic situation by a bunch of rich jews in NYC and London made Germany furious.’

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 3, 2025 2:07 AM

I see two differences.
The first is the corona scam that ultimately divided the globe into two camps.
The second is the Iphone, big screen and the LapTop 24/7 tyranny.

Then I say to myself but the first one, the corona scam plus plus plus, they also did in the past and ancient times. Not new.
Then we have the change of focus away from people and surroundings to a TV screen 10hrs/day.

The TV screen was called the dumb box in older days. All right you came home from work, had your dinner, and then fell asleep with the dumb box at night after 2-3 hours.

But today its 10 hours attention into the dumb box. A big part of humanity fall more and more away from the real. The Digital hallucination illusionation society.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 2, 2025 11:35 PM

Not sure if IQ is a thing, given that the more often one is exposed to an IQ test the better one gets. Also, the better, more educated the upbringing, the higher the IQ. Moreover, the better the nutritional status of the pregnant mother and during early childhood, the higher the IQ of the child and, later, adult. Finally, children born to people with low functioning intelligence, including those parents suffering from Downs Syndrome, etc., can grow up to be very smart. Ergo, IQ may not be a thing, or perhaps just not a static phenomenon.

As for CSF and the kind of stupid decision-making driven by it, that’s probably linked to a person’s character, his/her sense of morality, as Bonhoeffer thought …

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… or pure desperation (fear of losing your job/income/means of survival).

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 6:32 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

I concur with your thoughts on IQ. It is not a fixed trait, and that claim it really measures “g” is dubious at best. It certainly doesn’t measure competency or potential for societal success.

I am a financially strapped, scientifically ugly social outcast who scored highly enough on IQ tests as a child to be placed into gifted programs. My “High IQ” has earned me a useless Bachelor’s degree and enough pay to survive sans the ignomony of benefits — and not much else, unless one counts a lovely family. It hasn’t granted me the wherewithal to successfully live outside of the system.

“High IQ” or not, I consider myself to have a profound learning disability.

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 3, 2025 12:25 PM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Those apes look very familiar.
Many of my neighbours, friends and family members _ _ _ _ _ Na, couldn’t be.
Could they?

my ways are not theirs
my ways are not theirs
Aug 2, 2025 11:26 PM

I always enjoy your thought-provoking observations!

I can really understand that feeling of doubt with regard to the people around me in public spaces

I grew up in New York City and it seemed perfectly natural when I was a naive little kid to walk along crowded sidewalks among complete strangers and never for a moment wonder whether they might not suddenly take into their heads to attack me, or kidnap me, or do a thousand random, but perfectly possible acts that simply aren’t part of the standard repertoire programmed by our socialization

until one day, without any particular triggering event I can recall, this blissful innocence evaporated!

anyway the idea of COMMON sense is tautologically bound up with anthropological norms, so that what seems self-evident to a 21st century Canadian would be utter folly to an aborigine of prehistoric Australia, for example, and the snap judgments of the latest generation of our modern cultures can reflect a cognitive molding process very different to the formative experiences of people born in the same setting just a few decades before

the Germans don’t include the idea of commonality in their expression for this valuable quality, GESUNDER Menschenverstand, which evokes an understanding that is healthy

or else, well, sometimes a reaction to when a person sneezes!

that might get us closer to the essence of the question since the concept of health, though susceptible to culture-specific overlays, is presumed to have as its basis an ideal configuration of human mind-body functioning, determined by our universal species characteristics

healthy understanding would hopefully protect us from noxious influences, warn us not to drink the Kool Aid or have something worse jabbed into our veins, regardless of whatever programming our matrix subjects us to

but in such a sick world as ours, healthy is a far cry from common, and my awareness of this state of affairs forever bars me from return to that carefree childhood insouciance

nowadays I only feel safe on the streets when ensconced in the cabin of my sturdy automobile, with the whole drive-thru concrete jungle safari separated from me by locked doors and windows

Human values
Human values
Aug 3, 2025 9:44 AM

Both common sense and Gesunder Menschenverstand are translated in my language as ”healthy reason” or ”everyday reason” or ”everyday thinking”. Also, ”practical reason” and ”rural/ rustic/ country reason” have been used as synonyms in my language. A healthy reason would be the ability to think logically. Everyday reason would be the idea shared by most people about how things are. Everyday reason is considered to be probably anti-scientific, as everyday reason tells us the Sun is rising, but with scientific knowledge we know the Earth is turning.

All words can be used without correct understanding, so all these words have been used to oppress people who are bullied, marginalized or abused. For example, rape victims have been told ”it’s just common sense not to dress like that” – common sense used as an accusation that ”you should have known better, so it’s your fault”.

So people have very different ideas about what common sense is. ”What I think” or ”what most people believe” is probably different from what the truth is.

Instead of beliefs, thinking can be reasonable when it’s based on truth and used in a purely logical manner. But first, the truth must be known. Premises must be true, otherwise logic is false and futile.

Logical thinking is simple. So I think it’s easy and natural for every human being. Problems arise when other people feed us lies, opinions, beliefs, and make us believe them.

Mental manipulation operates with words, as liars say they are telling the truth, beliefs can be forced by threats of violence and violence, and people who just want to belong in the majority (or some other group) don’t care about the truth.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 2, 2025 10:35 PM

I don’t know about IQ, never tried to “measure” it and I don’t think it’s relevant for what is happening (as described in the article). The CSF of the “older” people (like me) was built by reading books and looking for answers from various sources, combining them and extracting “some” truth. After the ’90s and accelerated after 2007 (iPhone) all the hard work is gone to google or more recently to chatgpt (I’m trying not to use either) so this type of “common sense” created a new generation of “experts” but sadly very close to Rain Man (trying not to insult anyone). The propaganda is more efficent with the brains of such experts who believe they know all and the propaganda just confirms their ideas (which are never based on their own logic or experience). I am not very optimistic about the future.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 2, 2025 10:40 PM
Reply to  Hornbach

Yes, “efficient” but I can’t go back and edit. And “new generation” does not refer to age, they can be young or old, the common factors are : they were not previously exposed to many books or didn’t like to think for themselves (organized in packs, doing what the others were doing) plus a lot of time online, mostly on “social media”

I_Left_the_left
I_Left_the_left
Aug 2, 2025 10:01 PM

To say that most people lack understanding ‘regarding Covid, vaccines, politics, world events, the New World Order efforts, etc’ presupposes that the author correctly understands said issues. Does he really? Source please. I also note that Todd neglects to mention any research methods used to reach his sweeping conclusions about countless millions of people, nor consider the likely effects of what may be the greatest brainwashing/fearwashing campaign in human history. Very poor show.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 2, 2025 11:11 PM

My articles are about my own personal observations and experiences. I never claim my thoughts to be facts. And believe me, I do NOT “understand” a damn thing about what has happened to humanity.

underground poet
underground poet
Aug 3, 2025 2:10 AM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Overheated in the south and froze in the north, and aside from the few in the middle, the two shall never meet.

nylon
nylon
Aug 3, 2025 8:02 AM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Ironically,the website motto is still “because facts really should be sacred”
Or it was?

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 12:56 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

This is a level of HELL, and has been erroneously described, unfortunately. But fortunately there are built-in escape clauses, so …
First Rule. DON’T PANIC.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 2, 2025 11:37 PM

False equivalents. Tearing down the author is not an argument.

Brian Sides
Brian Sides
Aug 2, 2025 5:22 PM

So During the great war later relabeled WW1 How many thousands of people were persuaded that it would be a good idea to leave there home and go to some strange place and try to kill people and the people they were trying to kill had likewise been persuaded .
Mean while back at home some rich people were laughing there socks off
So I know a lot of people were persuaded to stay at home and then to take risky jabs
that may have killed and injured some. But as dumb as this was it is not as dumb as what happened during WW1 so maybe the dumb level has reduced.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Aug 2, 2025 8:02 PM
Reply to  Brian Sides

Modern propaganda was born during WWI. This is where Edward Bernays cut his teeth, getting the American people to support the US entry into WWI. by the time he published his (in)famous book “Propaganda” 10 years later, propaganda was everywhere and at all levels of society.

The Dead Messenger
The Dead Messenger
Aug 2, 2025 4:21 PM

I reckon there’s another equally relevant metric; the inclination and instinct to stay with the thundering herd without challenge, which is separate from IQ. It’s a trait grossly exhibited by both low and high IQ people. High IQ people, in fact, might be worse, employing their greater intelligence and education to rationalize their loyalty to and the importance of remaining with the stampeding column.

What may have changed in all people, particularly lower IQ people, those with less capacity for critical thought, is the instinct to be wary of and not comply with irrational and despotic ‘authority’. That seems to be gone, and these people then are the NPCs among us, and there’s a lot of them.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 2, 2025 5:05 PM

Yes, I know, IQ has nothing to do with it. I at one time thought it did (as I say in the article) but now realize it is more of a common sense issue…which includes being compelled to stay with the “thundering crowd” ala sheep behaviour.

sunmoongone
sunmoongone
Aug 2, 2025 6:53 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Is this what your referring to?

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Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Aug 2, 2025 3:55 PM

Mr Hayen, the term ‘common sense’ is a generic expression meaning ‘what I’m good at’.

I know this because I have learned over decades that what I think is common sense is not what others think it is, and vice versa.

I think it’s pretty common sense that if you were bullied both by your family and at school then it’s a pretty safe bet that you won’t be very trusting. I am amazed at how many ‘community worthies’ think that this statement shows that ‘I have something wrong with me’. They simply don’t have common sense because they were minor bullies at school and/or had a healthy upbringing in a loving family.

I think it’s pretty common sense that sane people won’t have any time for Jewish victimhood if that victimhood involves being called nasty names when Israeli Jews are murdering hundreds of thousands of women and children in Gaza. But apparently that form of common sense is absent from the most influential sects of Western Jewry.

I think it’s pretty common sense that if you eat healthy food, take age-appropriate exercise and only relate with decent, life-affirming souls then you’re far less likely to be depressed than if you are sexually abused, have a bullying boss at work and have acquaintances that tell you that if you don’t drink 10 pints of beer on a Saturday night then you really shouldn’t be allowed to have a girlfriend. I think that the MSM might find it rather difficult to say that they promote lives free of depression…..they promote making you wildly depressed, getting you taking antidepressant pills and then wondering why you need Viagra to counter your erectile dysfunction caused by the anti-depressant pills.

Common sense nowadays is very much less common because society is not nearly as closed, not nearly as servile and not nearly as brainwashed as it was when a dominant Christian religion was enforced for a millennium or so.

When everyone is made to think the same way, it’s a safe bet that ‘common sense’ is pretty common.

Whether it constitutes ‘sense’ or not, is quite another matter….

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 2, 2025 11:00 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

My thumb up here was for almost all the comment, with the exception of the last paragraphs. The Christian “brainwashing” cannot be compared to what happens today. I cannot say I am religious myself but I have always admired the cultural side of it : architecture, music, painting etc. Is there anything comparable to that in the recent arts?

landy
landy
Aug 3, 2025 10:51 AM
Reply to  Hornbach

architecture, music, painting etc. 
Religious did not bring this, religion suppressed this.
Religion is a control mechanism tool for the rich to use on the poor.
In the name of Religion has killed more than any war and is used for the justification of war and the killing of art, music and distorting architecture.

The Christians or esus cult never built anything, they stole plagiarised other people cultures, books, story’s and monuments.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 3, 2025 11:48 AM
Reply to  landy

Maybe it is as you say but ask yourself : architecture = cathedrals, why were they built ? Music – I believe all the pre-classics and the classics had composed on “divine inspiration”. Painting : most of the classic art is based on Biblical subjects. Do not limit yourself to Oliver Cromwell, Christianity has many faces.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Aug 3, 2025 8:04 PM
Reply to  landy

Actually, churches are one of the few gathering places unaligned with the government. They have the potential of being centers of opposition. Oh, bah. You won’t understand this. You are too set in your ignorant ways. Look up Muhlenberg.

Arthur
Arthur
Aug 3, 2025 9:39 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

 Actually, churches are one of the few gathering places unaligned with the government. 

They have the potential of being centers of opposition

Aloysius they double up as covid centers during covid then closed and told the flock to get vaccinated and tested, that is hardly opposition.

They reopen 2 years after covid requesting QR codes and digital donations and telling everyone how they need another church roof fix.
They grift more then tommy 10names robinson and rebel media legal fee;s scam.

Your unaligned with the government 😂 
Lichfield Cathedral U.K was one of the 100s doing this.
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Arthur
Arthur
Aug 3, 2025 9:42 PM
Reply to  Arthur

Your unaligned with the government cancelled easter twice and closed.

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Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 1:09 AM
Reply to  Arthur

Ugly. No wonder the Bible points out the Church as the biggest and ugliest sinner. They knew, but sinned anyway.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Aug 5, 2025 7:20 PM
Reply to  Arthur

Do you know what “potential” means?

Do you know what “Dissenters” are?

Do you know anything about the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution?

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Aug 4, 2025 5:55 PM
Reply to  landy

Religion is an human universal, even in places where society has not evolved to include distinctions between “rich and poor.”

Religion is an ineffable human longing tied up in the desire to understand Why all this is.

That “the Christians or Jesus Cult never built anything” is demonstrably ludicrous.

Human values
Human values
Aug 5, 2025 10:45 AM
Reply to  landy

Religion has indeed been stealing, robbing and abusing what is humane and Holy. Religion has been killing, murdering, mass-murdering innocents, in the Name of God. Which is atrocious, blasphemous and sin. They are, of course, massive human rights violations and crimes against humanity and world peace.

Religions are not God-made, they are made by men. All crimes and sins are made by humans, not God.

Religion steals what is Holy and twists it into something unholy. Religion steals the truth, says it belongs to religion, then tells and forces everyone to obey religion, not God.

So religion kills God. Religion has killed everything that is pure, holy and good for humanity and life.

In its original meaning, ”religio” means bond with God. Religion, as organized crime that it is, changed that meaning into their dogma, where even God was made into a man.

So, in organized religion, man is worshipped, literally a male person.

Also, the things of man, his money, his power, his evil deeds, took the place of God. Absolute truth was turned into lies of men. Absolute goodness was turned into corruption. Bond with God or unity with God was turned into the worship of priests and popes and their masters, bankers.

Words in the Bible were twisted beyond recognition, interpreted in a mundane manner and ”marriage” with the Holy Spirit was changed into a marriage between a man and a woman, forced or legalized by church or state. It doesn’t even make any sense to think that two people become one, but religion doesn’t care about making sense, truth, or logic.

Everything in organized religion is wrong because it worships Mammon and serves the Devil.

True God is still True God. Nothing can ever change the Eternal Immutable Truth.

underground poet
underground poet
Aug 3, 2025 2:15 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

I sense that my timing is wrong, at least for others.

mgeo
mgeo
Aug 3, 2025 5:50 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

There is only one supreme law: consume. Of course, you will work or borrow to do that.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 1:11 AM
Reply to  mgeo

…’borrow big and work‘. Fixed.

EarlofSuave
EarlofSuave
Aug 2, 2025 3:41 PM

One thing is certain, the bullshit detector has been thoroughly bred out of the populace. This has to be the golden age for conmen, Ponzi schemers and three-card monte hustlers. We need Bullshit Man more than ever

https://postimg.cc/vxgCwwcC

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Aug 2, 2025 3:13 PM

This article sidesteps the most salient factor here in the discussion of “common sense.”

PROPAGANDA.

But it is not just propaganda, but “pre-propaganda” aka education, the propaganda of the “water we live in” (do fish know they are wet?), for Americans, we have the notion of the “American Way of Life” TM. Then of course we have the media which gives us non-stop 24/7/365 propaganda all our lives. There’s more insidious forms: indoctrination and psychological warfare. Why is it that the “most intelligent”, most educated, fell most easily to the con of Covid for example? The answer is simple: they consume more propaganda. That’s why as a cohort, working class people did’t buy it.

Todd, you really should read the book Propaganda by Jacques Ellul. It was published in 1965, except for references that tie the text to that time, it feels like it could have been published recently.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Aug 2, 2025 1:13 PM

There’s definitely been a dumbing down of people in the West – many would rather watch brain melting shit tv shows – than go online and search for the truth of matter reported in the bias and lying media – speaking of the media news, many folk are now utterly cemented in their opinions regardless or not – if you point out the truth of a matter to them – usually its met with anger and possibly threats, along with dumbing down, and chemtrails – and the messing about with our foods and water, no one actually knows what was in the Covid jags – or what their long term affects ill be on people – and could it along with all the other things I mentioned, could it be affecting reasoning and logic, in people in a bad way.

For me Western governments are now actively nurturing anger and hatred in their citizens – above logic, evidence and truth.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Aug 3, 2025 8:06 PM

How do you know there has been dumbing down. Can you remember when the majority of people were less dumb? When was that? Can you give examples?

Claus
Claus
Aug 2, 2025 1:10 PM

My guess is that the decline of “CSF” has a lot to do with distancing ourselves from our human “core“ of silence. This is to say that we are now completely in our “minds” rather than (in our) being – without the slightest doubt identifying with our ideas and phantasies running wild. Having a godlike attitude towards the world and ourselves makes us behave like gods while we still are nothing but human. Regarding all the technical power available today this makes the world a very dangerous place …

The Real Edwige
The Real Edwige
Aug 2, 2025 12:52 PM

Alternatively might “we” not accept our mortality and learn to cope with it?
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-secret-to-hibernation-is-hidden-in-human-dna-and-we-might-one-day

The Tech Bros scientism-materialist view of the world has left them defenceless and they seem willing to grasp at any ludicrous idea rather than re-think that worldview.

Balkydj
Balkydj
Aug 2, 2025 12:44 PM

Sadly: hard to believe, but there are many ‘kids’ out there that believe the whole world was once,

Black & White …

*with photographic evidence.*

Valerie Leppard
Valerie Leppard
Aug 2, 2025 12:23 PM

Also, CSF flies out the window if your mum is trapped in a care home and you aren’t allowed to see her unless you’re jabbed and tested and wearing a face mask. Sometimes people will be forced down a path they feared because they fear worse if they don’t. Others face losing their job which supports them and their family. Coercion is real.

Claret
Claret
Aug 2, 2025 4:17 PM

Absolutely.I think most people in the medical/nursing/care professions have (NMA) non-disclosure agreements in their contracts. It’s also the case these days even in the most mundane of (shitty but needed) jobs, such as security,logistics,distribution.
It means of course that you’ve got to think very carefully about reporting any wrong-doings by any authorities. Otherwise I think we would have heard way more regular people speaking out about what was really going on during the corona shitshow.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:04 PM

Time for guerilla action, then. Humanity or rule-breaking. It’s your choice.

Binra
Binra
Aug 2, 2025 12:13 PM

The (urgent or primary) need is to change our mind about our mind.
Yet as you think to be, cannot of itself change its own predicate.
Nor can it be reached while it defends its predicate as itself.
The ability to question assumptions may seem to be critical thinking – but unless a genuine curiosity stirs from beneath or beyond your ‘reality’ you cannot form or hold or unfold such a question.
The transformational ‘journey’ of life is no less a transforming of ‘self and world’.
I may grieve the loss of what was “normal” to my life, but life is not really put on hold meanwhile, and if in truth I love life or live love – then the process of true mourning releases love to Life as an expanded embrace – which may be experienced as ‘beginner’s mind’.
Judge not or not only are we set in our own measure, but we block the discernment of a deeper recognition of another as our Self.
Love is not a mystery to loving – only to thinking as if to ‘know’ in a frame of definitions serving predictive control.
Yes I can get upset when you don’t fit the roles I gave you. But while you did, I thought you were what I took, made or used you to be.

We are in process of learning about the use to which we put our mind. Even if we think we are learning how to impact, manipulate, or fix our world – or our mind!

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 2, 2025 11:32 AM

There is ‘intelligence’ and there is wisdom. They are worlds apart.

Binra
Binra
Aug 2, 2025 12:17 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Yes – the idol of intelligence forsakes love’s wisdom for ‘control’ – and without love you cannot have enough of it! Hence ‘progressive’ delusion runs GoF. True function is integral – not a hack+hijack.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:07 PM
Reply to  Johnny

intellect, intelligence, imagination. Wisdom in the rear-view mirror.

sunmoongone
sunmoongone
Aug 2, 2025 11:14 AM

Western I.Q test or even your common sense argument fails.
explain how.

Being from Africa with our low average IQ, we are the world’s most unvaccinated region. We overwhelmingly rejected the COVID psyop.

So there’s that.

The average IQ in Europe and USA is 100.

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Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 12:28 PM
Reply to  sunmoongone

Given that IQ tests measures the “intelligence” as a construct of the western culture, it is hardly surprising that those culture far from the western ones score low.

If the was an african-devised (or chinese-devised) IQ test based … I don’t know … on the ability to think ideographically … I am sure the whole western world would look totally stupid.

Bottom line, the history is made by those winners of imposed the parameters of intelligence and made a test based on those parameters.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 2, 2025 3:35 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

You are exactly right. My article was confined to where I live, in Western culture.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Aug 4, 2025 6:04 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

“Bottom line, the history is made by those winners of imposed the parameters of intelligence and made a test based on those parameters.”

If intelligence is simply intelligence, and not something measured by a “biased” test, one would think Africa would look a lot better than it does.

Neither God nor Nature bestow the same gifts to all in equal kind and measure.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Aug 2, 2025 3:19 PM
Reply to  sunmoongone

You were/are subjected to far less propaganda. It has nothing to do with “intelligence.” People in the US (then the West) do not realize that we/they are most propagandized population on earth.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 2, 2025 3:37 PM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

I hope my article was clear…I also stated that “intelligence (from an IQ perspective) has nothing to do with it.

sunmoongone
sunmoongone
Aug 2, 2025 6:49 PM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

regarding the west, they are most propagandized population on earth.
Not true Tom Larsen. We have TV’s and WHO and health visitors to the villages offering vaccines and testing and within the cities they still promoted masks and testing and vaccines and posters and big billboards and leaflets telling everyone about coronavirus disease.
The police was more dangerous in the cities when it came to enforcing. Our police is not as gentle as western police.

As the meme saying goes, common sense within the western world was not that common.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Aug 2, 2025 7:41 PM
Reply to  sunmoongone

I did not say that non-Western counties are not propagandized as well, but not to the same extent, sophistication and history. For example, propaganda was well established, everywhere and at all levels of society by the time Edward Bernays published his book “Propaganda” in 1928.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 2, 2025 3:34 PM
Reply to  sunmoongone

Western I.Q test or even your common sense argument fails.” I think you missed my point, which was exactly your point. IQ does not measure common sense. And I am not sure why you are saying my take on common sense also fails. What do you think it was that was behind Africa’s rejection of the psyop?

sunmoongone
sunmoongone
Aug 2, 2025 6:37 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Your term ‘common sense’ does this mean ”natural intuition”? as we say in our culture?

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 2, 2025 11:09 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Perhaps “common sense” in non-Western civilizations means the real connection with the nature, it means to say what you think and to think what you see, hear, touch. Maybe the absence of “conditioning” (or very little of it) makes those civilizations more robust, able to spot and reject what is not natural.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 3, 2025 1:43 AM
Reply to  Hornbach

All third under-developed nations are just soo natural off grid with nature …….and we developed nations are not…. but dumbheads. Liberal cliches.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 3, 2025 1:39 AM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Common sense?

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:14 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Much of Africa is still GROUNDED. Living in Spain and Portugal for 11 years made me understand that the natives have a Hispanic-centred world view which does not match the Anglosphere in many aspects.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 3, 2025 1:35 AM
Reply to  sunmoongone

Congratulation with all the said. Your comment and graph made my day.
You should just remember that West is the Pentagram turned much on its head with the two horn turned 180 degrees.
But we have still areas in the world where the head is up: Here is a nice video proof of more African Intelligence:
https://youtu.be/LZ6nioMimCc PRO LIFE NIGERIA

Arthur
Arthur
Aug 3, 2025 9:51 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

 African Intelligence:
They yet not indoctrinated by the church = state.
COVID show how the western church = state(governments) worked in vaccinating its people and now easy it was for not one jab but boosters and all.

The savages seem more IQ common sense.
like bravenewworld,

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 1:16 AM
Reply to  Arthur

Culture and traditions. Like said in the video.

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Aug 4, 2025 6:46 AM
Reply to  Arthur

They KNOW that their governments and politicians are corrupt. Therefore, they trust them less, whereas in the West trust of the system is higher, since corruption was hidden better and although more are now aware of it, people still generally trust the overall system.

Nothing to do with the Church, since far more Africans percentage wise go to church or the mosque, depending on the majority religion of the country, compared with the atheist West. China is an example of a very secular society, yet jab uptake was very high, since obedience and trust in the system is high.

In the caae of citizens of ex-communist European countries, jab uptake was much lower than the West, yet religion had somewhat of a renaissance post-communism. They too have a lower trust of their poilticians and the system, despite being heavily propagandanized during the Soviet era.

nylon
nylon
Aug 2, 2025 11:05 AM

Television has a LOT to answer for this cognitive decline,but just the mention of it could soon result on a knock at your door,for the hate speech,
Better shut up and stay safe.

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 11:59 AM
Reply to  nylon

Have had a TV in my home for 25 years. One of the best decisions in my life.

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 11:59 AM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

Correction “I haven’t had a TV….”

Balkydj
Balkydj
Aug 2, 2025 12:33 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

A wise correction _ I was gobsmacked for a second 😂

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 1:35 PM
Reply to  Balkydj

I used to be able to edit posts after publishing them. But it seems as though that feature has been removed for awhile now, at least I can’t find it on my browser anymore

Balkydj
Balkydj
Aug 2, 2025 12:34 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

Assuming the worst …

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:17 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

And me, only 40 years TV free.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 1:20 AM
Reply to  ariel

That must be championship. But you seems to have compensated with exiting life experiences. 🎩 .

ariel
ariel
Aug 4, 2025 11:54 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Yeah but it’s not for everyman (or woman) I learned that the hard way.
Planet ? of the Lion-headed people? Dive through stars? Miracles up mountains in the Balkans? Whadd’ya mean?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 6, 2025 11:08 PM
Reply to  ariel

Being out there in 3-dimension. Between different people and cultures.
I first learned that the world could be very different when I tried to live in another country under another culture for a longer time.
If you/we live(d), you/we dont need TV.

ariel
ariel
Aug 7, 2025 1:00 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Yes I learned that living 11 years in Spain and Portugal under the Hispanic mindset which was quite different from under the Anglosphere. Much more laid back. When I returned from living in New York the first time and someone asked me what NYC was like, so I told them ‘Like Liverpool on methedrine.’ At that point like the UK on speed, with a bit of Germany thrown in, in some ways a clash or even a car crash of cultures. And they assembled NYC out of the broken bits..

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 10:54 AM

In the previous post IMA and Carey Wedler, it was discussed solutions adopted by different panelist to regain some mental balance and positive thinking. Among the other things, they mentioned:

  • Gardening
  • Having animals around you
  • Flowers next to your digital device

Isnt it interesting that none of the solutions involved the idea of “having other people around me”?

It may be nurturing to live in a thriving like-minded community, but ultimately your mental health is regained by a fair amount of time spent in solitude and close to nature-without-human-beings. (I am sure many ppl will disagree, It’s ok).

judith
judith
Aug 2, 2025 12:47 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

How about a balance of both?

Jonas Carling
Jonas Carling
Aug 2, 2025 1:31 PM
Reply to  judith

They are not mutually exclusive, and each of us will have to decide where the balance lies.

But it seems to me that some degree of solitude in the company of nature plays an important role in your mental and spiritual health , and continual closeness (forced or otherwise) with other human beings may have some detrimental effects.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 2, 2025 3:41 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

I think the struggle or conflict when not having alone time with nature is that psychologically we begin to think that humans are the only source of an awareness of unity consciousness because narcissistically other humans are similar to us. We need to develop an awareness of God (or whatever word you want to use to define “unity” awareness) through nature as well as through each other. Both are essential (or at least preferred) for different reasons.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:26 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

God, or whatever you want to call it, is the operant factor of consciousness
inside these bodies. The struggle (if any) is to raise our awareness of the internal levels, and bring them into balance with the external, aka ‘God in you.’
We HAVE TO do our bit. The birds and the bees are still doing theirs here.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 1:37 AM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

You’re right. Its key. Its actually a little chocking to realise that after many times and many tries, we end up inside the book most people reject  😅 .

Go out in nature,
forest bathing,
relationship with animals,
meditation.
Einstein ‘love is the strongest force’,
T.Hayen ‘awareness of unity through nature’,
Black Elk ‘everything is spirit’.

What does the Bible tells us? : When asked which is the greatest commandment, Jesus replied,

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Mt 22:37-40).

This is key to the our universe and our lives. Love to God comes first! Next the love to our neighbour will be feasible due. The rest is peace of cake.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:19 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

Yes, they have smartphones. I DON’T, and this will be a problem if/when they cut off 3G as threatened.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Aug 2, 2025 11:15 PM
Reply to  Jonas Carling

Without being aware of the IMA post, their three bullet points are exactly what I am doing. And I agree about the solitude, it is important to be able to “gather your thoughts”.

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 2, 2025 9:05 AM

Excellent article, Dr. Hayen. I, too, used to operate under erroneous presumptions about my fellow human beings. Being of naturally low self-esteem, it was my assumption that if I had a basic grasp of a concept, anyone else on the street would likely have mastered said concept ten times over. I also assumed the majority had a better knowledge of what was really “going on” than I could ever hope to attain. I now realise this is not the case. Even my husband — a man with a spectacularly high IQ — has no common sense, and refuses to listen when I discuss my fears regarding the NWO and Its Agenda. I realise that when things reach their lowest point, I may well be alone. I may be murdered in some insidious way through the myriad automated systems of the Powers-that-shouldn’t-be, or at least exiled in a way that may make survival quite difficult. I can only pray for pur two young children — to grow up in this upside-down world, where people WITH a modicum of CSF are to be ignored, per official advise, is not enviable.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 2, 2025 3:43 PM

Very well put…thank you.

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:29 PM

Sheeesh. Are you absolutely sure that you don’t have an exit strategy? We have to avoid prison camps of our own making. There MUST BE an escape clause. It’s part of the contract,

ariel
ariel
Aug 3, 2025 1:33 PM
Reply to  ariel

People will show anger to defend, cover up and justify their fears even up to and including violence. They are intransigent.

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 4:28 PM
Reply to  ariel

Really? Where do you suppose one might be located?

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 3, 2025 4:32 PM
Reply to  ariel

Oooooh, you mean dying in Christ. Yea; that is an escape clause.

Marc
Marc
Aug 3, 2025 7:47 PM

What about the rest of us who don’t believe in fairy stories?

Vagabard
Vagabard
Aug 3, 2025 8:06 PM
Reply to  Marc

Apparently uch types do exist. It’s been verifified. Sub IQ Types who never even got to go to an Ivy League or Oxbridge College. And yet dispose of all Religions a priori.

It does seem that they still *do* form some kind of subterranean existence in some vague primordial sense of the word. It’s been proven . What to do with them who knows. Any suggestions beyond the refuse can?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Aug 4, 2025 1:50 AM
Reply to  Marc

I dont understand this schizophrenic mode that people from your group are able to present and ask our group of people of.

You despise and reject the advise and helping hand as ‘fairy tale and fairy stories’, and in the same breath you beg us on your knees for a solution to your group.  😂  .

You guys could contact a shrink, or drink and party yourself into darkness?

Fatime Brorrorg
Fatime Brorrorg
Aug 4, 2025 8:12 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Do consider delving into and discussing your Bible. God blessed us with His Word. Saod Word is dynamic — read it, and pray for understanding, and you iust might be surprised.

No “Fairy stories” involved.