Acharya Prashant addresses the question of whether the easy access to technology is causing a decline in IQ levels. He confirms that dropping IQ levels are a fact, established by surveys over the last three to four decades. The reasons scholars have estimated for this phenomenon, while not a perfect science, include the very easy availability of mediocre information, knowledge, and sensory input, as well as the prevalence of one-way media. He explains that one-way media began with the radio, where communication is unidirectional, and the listener does not need to exercise their mind, leading to passive consumption. This evolved with television, which neutralized both the eyes and ears, further reducing mental engagement. The advent of the internet and social media has intensified this passive consumption, where the mind is simply fed content without being required to exercise discretion, investigate, or ask questions. People consume content while sitting or even lying down with zero activity, and the mind gets dulled. In this state of passive consumption, the mind is not required to exercise discretion or interact; it just stands and consumes. This is contrasted with older media like books, which allow for active engagement. A reader can stop, think, brood, underline, and scribble notes in the margins. They control the pace and can revisit points. An even superior medium was personal, face-to-face interaction, which demands extreme attentiveness as the other person can intercept and ask questions. This kind of interaction is not possible with modern one-way media. The result of this passive consumption is a decline in the general intelligence of the population. We are turning into idiots, which is not a laughing matter. This has led to the rise of a new kind of modern, westernized superstition, where people lazily believe anything, explaining the traction of things like WhatsApp forwards. People have become contemptuous towards knowledge and science, using the word 'gyan' (knowledge) as a pejorative. Acharya Prashant concludes by highlighting the difference between a human being and an animal. An animal's curiosity is limited to things like food and sex; it does not wonder about the nature of a laptop. A human being, however, must be greatly interested in such questions to be truly human. The essence of humanity is consciousness, which inquires because it wants to realize. Without inquiry, we are no different from cats and dogs. To be human is to know, both about the external world, like how a plane flies, and the internal world, like why you are flying.