"I'm willing to bet that the actual IQs of people 5,000 years ago were higher than they are now," he says. "Because we get to just sit in front of a TV and zone out for, you know, on average, six hours a day." Humanity is basically tool builder and storyteller. That's our existence. If we took that away, we basically wouldn't exist.," James Carville adds.

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