When I read that a family had pitched their tent on the edge of a cliff in Yorkshire
I wondered whether many of us had retained the natural intelligence we had as animals
rather than spending years in school then coming out with a low reading age
In the UK the average reading age has fallen from 11 to 9 in the last few years by some reports

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jan/24/books.politics

“Up to 16 million adults – nearly half the workforce – are holding down jobs despite having the reading and writing skills expected of children leaving primary school, a new report reveals today.”

This is shameful.Surely reading and writing should be higher than this for most people
It might explain some of our economic problems.How can we have a democracy when half of us
can’t even read the pamphlets we get before Elections?

Going back to the campers. is there no innate sense of danger in human beings in the West?
If you sleep on top of a cliff are you not likely to drop off completely forever?
If you sleep next to the bottom of a cliff you might be hit by a falling body or even a large lump of rock