Is there a good science fiction story where humanity discovers it’s unalterably getting dumber? As in within a fixed number of generations tool use will cease?
The classic version is Kornbluth's 1951 story "The Marching Morons", itself pretty clearly the basis for Idiocracy.(You could argue that "The Time Machine" was the original example.)
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(You could argue that "The Time Machine" was the original example.)