/lit/ - Literature

>>21741851
Real answer, and only real answer: mandatory education in Latin, Greek, and the classics of one's own ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic traditions. Gradated European-style system in which everybody is guaranteed an education but you can opt out and go into trades if you finally decide it's not for you, but only after receiving a mandatory minimum of cultural, linguistic, and probably mathematical education. Resurrect the German gymnasium / French lycee system, enforce them (they used to be optional because the citizenry wasn't actively and dangerously retarded, now they can't be optional at least for a few generations). The Chinese do this with their education but fuck it up because the human material is too broken down and abused, the people there are traumatized peasants who just want to be left alone by the government which is hamfistedly forcing them to recite a few empty references to Chinese classical poetry. But the human material in select places in European countries is still good enough that you could get a new aristocracy going, basically a Hitler Youth (sorry but it's true), in less than one generation if you just went full throttle. Then they would be pillars and bulwarks of normalcy for the rest of the population. It doesn't have to remain that intense forever, only for that initial generation or two to boost the national IQ back up 20+ points. Once one European nation does this, others will follow as it will essentially be a cognitive arms race, everybody else will see the benefits for political stability, and in an increasingly declining and dying world these will not be seen as optional.

You can't fix it within a broken system. Think of it like this: You are an individual piece of iron filing on a tabletop, surrounded by others. There is a magnetic field that is normally switched on, in which all the individual iron filings can travel if they choose to move around while retaining the invisible structure and integrity and not just regressing into brownian motion or careening off the table altogether. The magnetic field was shut off three generations or so ago. Everybody sensed on some subtle inner level that something was wrong, something was missing, but most iron filings remembered their habitual paths and trajectories, and carried on with the appearance of normalcy.