What do you have in mind?

Yes and I think we should eliminate people based on spelling ability. it's "catastrophe" and "civilization," unless maybe you're in the UK. they do funky S instead of Z stuff there.

That's a bit harsh.

ewww survival of the fittest, eh? could we make sure its intellectual fitness, cause if its physical-i have a problem

My free and unencumbered thinking has deduced that the problem lies in uncontrolled human breeding. This has been allowed to continue, without any limits (see the catholic church view on contraception) over the ages for one simple and overriding reason - to provide the old rulers, the numerous fake governments and the controlling & hidden powers with an inexhaustible supply of workers. One of the motives for having so many people, is to prevent the populace from having any form of control, in that if one group of people become too strong or over-demanding, the powerful rulers can simply appeal to another group of people to take their place - they would just create the classic "them and us" scenario The hidden powers and governments etc., don't care about how smart or clever the masses are or are not, nor do they care ONE IOTA what kind of lives the masses have, for we are just regarded and used as work horses in one form or another - we are paid for our time, but just enough to stop us from revolting and rioting but not enough to be financially independent of the controlling powers. We are never free and so we are all modern slaves. The really great positions in society are all pre-selected, years ahead and reserved for people whose breeding has been carefully considered and planned. They form the basis on who will be in power in the future. Even if there was some giant catastrophe and we lost half the world's population or more, the world would be recreated in time in the same way it is today. This is because the forces & thoughts that create the world as we know it are deeply inherent in people and the human being is a fallen creature; we are not elevated entities and we are not what we once were.

I think a catastrophe helps to perpetuate new ways of thinking, which could lead to encephalization (enlarging of the cranial capacity of the brain). For example, for a long while there were no drastic evolutionary "jumps" to modern man; however, the Pleistocene (Ice Age) forced pre-man beings to change their way of living and thinking, and in this way helped the evolutionary line.

Stupidity is subjective. Everybody's stupid in their own way.

It is subjective, and also some people are really smart others aren't. Everybody has some area of expertise (however trivial.) It depends on what form or catastrophe, if you mean big flood, earthquake, locust stuff then no, we can't learn from that. If you mean like resession, than yes that could teach everyone something. It's not all about stupidity though. And anyway, who's more stupid the guy in charge or the guy that put him in charge.

Man has been stupid since we ate the apple, what the fu%ks different?

You should watch the movie "Ideocracy", this shows us a future ruled by morons and smart people will die out.