Do you remember that study that just recently came out about us humans getting dumb and dumber?

[Christopher Jorden]

I never view links:

But as to your headline question:

I don't accept the premise that mankind is becoming less intelligent.
That type of genetic evolutionary process takes a very long time.

What I will concede as a very real possibility is that many members
of a given society are less inclined to use their mental faculties as
governments more and more cater to their basic needs.

In a manner of speaking, turning them into human parasites.