I would suggest that take out the publicity and we would soon discover we are much more average than we believe. Much like if we took away the news cherry picking the most violent crimes from around the globe, the world will seem a lot more safe than we are led to believe.
This is true. The point is however that we're smarter on average than we were 100 years ago. Go ahead, prove me wrong.
As we by essence know more, this sounds very logical.