Is today's world more intelligent or the yesterday's ?
It is building from scratch that is difficult, not building on an existing platform.
It is invention or inventive thinking that creates revolution, not research over an existing invention.
People can only grow inferior in the amount of thoughts and amount of work they do because more and more stuff evolves and makes life more and more easier or better..
Your father would have taken more pain to do what he wanted to do with his children or his business or his life... than you.
"Each new generation of the Earth's beings or the New world, is and will be, inferior in all ways with the Old World."
That is a popular, studied statement by historians, proved through observation by bilogists, scholars and their writings, even from way back in the 18th century.
The dinosaurs were much superior in power, size, mass, and their energy compared to today's animals.. what we call the elephant the biggest animal today. There have existed Dinosaurs of such size that they could eat 4-5 elephants for breakfast everyday.
The old world plants or tree species have always amazed even the scientists of today in their size, life, and how they survive many odds in climate and changes in the earth itself. While botanists around the world have been, and are, looking for every bit of a tiny growth of plant species from the old world believed to have been extinct now... zoologists, geologists and historians are looking for remains from the old world to understand the old world and their life and extinction theories.
All these researchers have almost concluded that earth goes through a cycle of life all the time, and that the new world always has inferior living beings in any and all species, be it animals (inclusive of humans), plants or even rocks and the earth beneath..
And that the new world stuff is inferior in all means, by size, by power(both physical and mental), by capacity to survive and also to evolve.
Everything has the problem of Ageing
Its more similar to the ageing process in our lives. As you get old you start losing your memory, your eyesight, and what not. And you always see that younger people do less work and stuff than you did in your days, but there are more younger people and hence more it looks like its better.
Cycle of Life
You know, even if we humans didn't extract the Earth's resources like coal, oil, etc., they are prone to deplete as the Earth ages. And this resource decrease, in many ways triggers ageing in the Cycle of life also, wherein inferior beings are produced in every cycle.
Future worlds
You and I are existing today in one of those cycles of life and extinction and we can assume that in the future (new world(s) will occur as long as the Earth and the system is alive), the beings of the new worlds, will be less capable on thought, probably smaller in size, and evolve much slowler than we have evolved so far, be it in understanding our history and cycle of life over many centuries or be it in technology advancements.
Though Aristotle, Newton, .. bill gates, .you and me, all are not far apart in our date of birth and period of existence (considering that the Earth is already many billion years old), there is convincing evidence in that we haven't found another dinosaur after their period, another scholar as big as aristotle after his period, another warrior like Alexander, ... and so on.
And so, we are probably not going to see more bigger companies or company chairmans like there are today, be it bill gates, or anyone else with such high corporate power.
Why all that, we probably can safely assume that there may not be even as capable humans like you reading this blog post and me writing it, in the future worlds to come after we all go extinct, and that assumption would be strongly true based on past evidence and understanding of Earth's history over the few centuries our human species has studied it.
The idea of this post is not that current technology is stupid or new generation is worser than the previous. As stated in the first few lines of this post, the idea is that the new generation or new technologies have it easier than the old.. and so it may not be of importance for anybody to become or think like aristotle or bill gates in the future, because everything would be done to some extent and people will consume their brains lesser.
And if anybody is wondering how we might go extinct, there can't be any clearer probablity other than the climate changes we are forcing on ourself. And there is some proof for this already.
