Are we de evolving as a population?

[Photoshop]

It appears people are getting more stupid. Is this a result of technology?

Yes, there are still brilliant individuals but society as a whole appears to be de evolving. We no longer have survival of the fittest which happens with the rest of life on earth.

[Shovel Ready]

Natural selection and therefore evolution has long since ended, at least in the US.

[Barry Chameleon]

Yes, just watch the lemmings with their hand-held devices stumbling around oblivious to their environment on a daily basis. hehehe

[Nick]

The rest of the world is evolving while humans are not. As you said we no longer have survival of the fittest. This will eventually change as our environment becomes more harsh.

[Tea Party Hero]

Evolution isn't real but you can't spell devolving so maybe you are a special case.

[Stevie]

Technology will make us use our brain cells less, and extinction will creep up on us, and wipe us out, in probably 300 yrs, so don't worry about global warming!

[YB Logical]

Funny how liberals will laugh and poke fun at those who do not believe in the evolutionary process while flaunting their self perceived superior intellect, yet ignore the unintended consequences of their own policies and the resulting effects on that same process.
There can be little doubt that the social "safety nets" of the past several decades have resulted in the flooding of the whole of the human gene pool with traits which will eventually prove detrimental to the species. The process will take time to manifest itself, but we are currently seeing preliminary results.
When we add in the media control of the majority of the human thought process and it's effect on curbing the individual creative thinking of the masses, it is not difficult to foresee the great majority of our species as becoming robotic like, with a total dependency on a very few who will be able to maintain complete control over them.

[Corrider]

It makes sense, but it hasn't been nearly long enough to actually devolve. And by 2100 every country will have population laws. So I wouldn't worry.

In the meantime, smart people will continue to find other smart people and dumb people will continue to do the same. It'll get worse, but the genes for intelligence will still be there. It takes more than a couple hundred industrialized years to ruin a sentient species

[Don]

If people become more stupid, this might be interpreted as a loss of function or a weakening of development, but that's not de-evolving (which actually has no ; even if our cultures completely fall apart and we revert to incoherence, that's still evolution - being smart and becoming dumb is still evolution - the result of changing gene frequencies in populations over time.

But that won't happen unless that characteristic is selected by the environment - I would suggest a shift toward any belief in fundamentalist religions as a good example of being smart and becoming dumb