One of the fables currently popular is that people are smarter now than they were in the past. The main evidence used to support this belief is that we now have computers, something people in the past weren't "smart" enough to invent. When this "past" was seems unclear. Another piece of evidence used to support the belief that people are smarter than they used to be is evolution, believe it or not. Since people have evolved, we must be evolving all the time, and must be smarter than people in the past, is how the reasoning goes.
Sorry, but you'll have to show me. That's right, show me. Get along better--stop war, crime, poverty and disease, and I'll count this generation smarter than the generations who did not correct any of these problems.
An invincible ego, firmly grounded in ignorance, is not "smarter" than anyone, or anything.
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