The Idiocracy is Living on Borrowed Time (and Money)
Until the average person weans him/herself off of sugar coated bullshit spewed by glassy eyed buffoons, the vector will be down. For some reason, the average person has an abject aversion to thinking about anything.
"Aw fuck, Jedi Mind Tricked Again..."
Too much TV. Too many iGadgets. Too much junk food. Has made their brains soft and weak. They can't focus anymore. It's attention deficit disorder on a massive scale. They memorize books and regurgitate facts onto exams to get rubber-stamped paper diplomas and then never learn another fucking thing for the rest of their lives. Along the way they gain a strong preference for having perma-smiling buffoons blowing smoke up their asses constantly as some sort of proxy for knowing anything. Artificial intelligence.
Suffice to say, that until the average person starts to think again, and in addition think for themselves, the vector will be down. Nature selects against delusional morons who depend upon other delusion morons to do their thinking for them.
A human being's only survival asset is their brain. Once thinking gets outsourced, survival becomes highly unlikely.