Does anyone else feel that society as a whole has significantly dumbed-down over the last 15-20 years?

When you turn on the television all you see are idiots from New Jersey screaming at each other. When you turn on the radio all you hear is, "Dat booty meat! Dat booty meat!" Our politicians don't seem to know which direction is up, and are being elected based solely on name recognition. In California we have a "Governator".  Where have all the brilliant writers gone? Sometime in the 90s did they start treating the water differently? What the hell is going on? Is anyone else really freaked out about this? 

dali3332010-05-13T02:22:46Z

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duuuuuude!!!!!!!!!!!!

?2010-05-13T02:24:14Z

I will agree though I cannot vouch for your comments regarding New Jersey as I have never been though. I personally feel it is a result for the increasing need for technology and social networking. People are more concerned with communicating with each other via emai, texting, tweets, and facebook that physical social interactions are becoming a thing of the past.

Anonymous2010-05-13T02:30:01Z

We should put the world population without computers and cell phone for a week. No spell checks or lazy wikipedia, googling and txt msgs.
By using typewriters and going to the libraries people should learn some English.

Anonymous2010-05-13T02:31:18Z

you have no freakin idea how bad it is.
i blame it on our current life being overdosed with superficial media and information, the internet, all that reality tv bullsh@#, it has made people jaded, cynical and stupid.
what do you expect form a new generation that will twitter for 3 hours than read a book? (except maybe one on the sims3)
and things are only gonna get worse.
give another 10 years we will be facing a "clone war" full of homer simpsons, but just stupid, not funny

justask37152010-05-13T02:24:28Z

Survival doesn't favor the intelligent anymore. It is simply who can reproduce the most.