It is self-evident that we are overdue for a Darwinian selection event. The world is so "safe" these days that nobody is culled from the herd even when they're as dumb as rocks.

Free food, free housing, free education, free medical care. Nobody is weeded out of the gene pool anymore for lack of resources. And everything is made so safe - I mean, we even put warning labels on hair dryers telling people not to use them in the bathtub. How dumb do you have to be not to have gotten that memo at some point in your life? Yeah, young children I guess but still. At this point, I'm frankly surprised more dumb people don't just wander onto the highway and get run over.