Two depressing facts for you all: 1. Intelligence has been dropping across Western nations for centuries. It peaked around three centuries ago. Don't let modern industrial society fool you -- technology and intelligence are not the same thing. 2. Americans are being dumbed down deliberately by the destruction of their schools and universities. Education is in a dismal state across the US in all categories and among all population groups. We can't do anything about the genetic decline of intelligence in the short term (it will require selective breeding to correct), but we can improve the schools by enforcing a standard of excellence that is separate and apart from racial and religious considerations. America has forsaken excellence for quotas. That is suicidal.