Yes.
Carl
Sagan said "The dumbing down of American is most evident in the
slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential
media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less),
lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on
pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration
of ignorance”
Unfortunately,
it's worse than that. There isn't a celebration of ignorance, there
is a glorification of ignorance, even a deification of ignorance. I
see it all the time in real life and on the internet. There's an
attitude that says "I know less than you and that makes me
better than you". I often quip that I wished I lived in the film
"Idiocracy" because at least they had the good sense to
have a system that identified intelligent people and promote them to
a position of influence. That's more than we have.
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