What to do? For most people, bailing on the Web or e-mail or cellphones isn't even feasible, let alone practical or ultimately desirable. (I shudder at the thought of living without my beloved Tivo.) Besides, modern life really isn't making us stupider: IQ tests have to be regularly updated to make them harder; otherwise the average score would have climbed 3 percent per decade since the early 1930s. (The average score is supposed to remain at a constant 100 points.)
Isn't that something. And here we are always told that every new generation of kids are stupider. A malicious lie.
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Jan points to:
Here's why I can't concentrate:
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Damn! That mouse looks too much like me! :-)
ReplyDelete"Ooh, Eolake has blogged new stuff!" :-D
ReplyDeleteSo, I guess Idiocracy wasn't premonitory. ;-)
Another take on Idiocracy and societal decline...
ReplyDeleteHILARIOUS, Jan...and *so* TRUE!! GOOD ONE! Thanks! :-)
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