Family balance: Why smart people should marry 'fools'

I'm not a prophet, but believe me when I say that in the next 100 years, there will be more fools than good brains in the human population.

While we work tirelessly to protect the planet for future generations, we are doing little to improve the quality of humans who will occupy the space Wangari Maathai's students are tirelessly preserving.

It is said that intelligence is inherited, and we would expect those who possess it to reward the future by generously distributing it. However, this is not the case. For several years, intelligent people have chosen to marry among themselves, and they have decided to do everything together except procreate.

They would rather walk chihuahuas than change nappies, and the few who do have children have only one or two. Yaani two doctors or lawyers marrying and deciding to replace their two brains with just one. They usually have a plethora of reasons why small-sized families are good without considering the intelligent population of tomorrow.

Unbeknownst to them, those on the lower end of the intelligence spectrum, also known as fools and imbeciles, are busy procreating around the clock and populating the earth with more of their kind. The latter group is eager to listen to their waheshimiwas, who tell them that having more children ensures that they have more power.

Even now, we encounter many fools in our daily lives because technology has improved communication and ensured that we all encounter many men and women of low intelligence in our daily lives. In 100 years, fools will rule the world. We brag about having good brains and the ability to steer the future in the right direction, but wild animals do a better job of improving their offspring than we do.

Even among lions, only the strongest and most virile males sire cubs. There is little chance for the weak to procreate, and even if they do, the stronger ones easily take over their pride, killing all unworthy cubs sired by weakling fathers. The offspring we see are the offspring of a strong and virile male whose survival is assured.

Unfortunately, we cannot say the same for humans; while the intelligent believe they are depopulating the world, fools are busy replacing them by reproducing like rabbits. Perhaps we should advocate for marriage equity, striving for family balance by encouraging intelligent people to marry fools.

Fortunately for us, as long as men remain men, this may not be difficult to achieve. We only need those with lower IQs to be more attractive, which we cannot guarantee.

When smitten by a beautiful face or voluptuous behind, even the most intelligent men have been known to abandon their values and associate with those they would otherwise regard as of lower pedigree.

It would be effective if such events got us kids. Better yet, a rule should be enacted that prohibits anyone with a high IQ from having only one partner.
If championed by a scientist, this would be a very visionary piece of legislation. It would ensure that intelligent genes are widely distributed in our daily lives and beyond.

Visionary women, for example, could allow their intelligent husbands to interact more closely with the nannies.

Cheating on exams may not have been such a bad idea after all, because it allowed less intelligent students to gain admission to institutions of higher learning. Less intelligent men and women had more opportunities to meet brighter partners and start families, guiding our next generation to a state of equilibrium.

By the time a woman realised her husband was an idiot who had only gotten to higher education through Mwakenya, she would be in her third pregnancy with intelligent to average children.

With no safeguards in place to ensure the quality of the next generation, we may as well begin regressing and making our way back to the Stone Age, when brute strength was more efficient than a good brain.