http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/depressing-survey-results-show-how-extremely-stupid-america-has-become
Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was
released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to
America over the course of the next decade. In the movie, an “average
American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is
the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he
suddenly finds himself in. Sadly, I truly believe that if people of
average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016,
they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of
us. We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach. Hardly anyone takes time to read a book anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television. 75 percent
of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but
they sure know how to find smut on the Internet. It may be hard to
believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
What in the world has happened to us? How is it possible that we
have become so stupid? According to a brand new report that was
recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court…
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