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too distracted.
Well, marching morons aside, it's been a truism in the not quite hard sciences for a while that slow-acting human genetic evolution has been shunted aside for the last few thousand years by the fast pace of cultural evolution. So, it's not necessary to breed idiots, when you can simply create them with schools and the consumer culture mass media.
Not like this hasn't happened in one way or another to every country which became a 'superpower' in the history of the world.