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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
English 1A, 1B, 1C ... Are We Getting Dumber?
from
The New York Times
February 27, 2012
Room for Debate: Are People Getting Dumber?
If you turn on the TV, or flip through standardized tests, or spend mindless hours on YouTube, it’s hard not to wonder: Is our species devolving? Are people getting dumber?
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YES. Have any of you ever seen Idiocracy? I feel like it's a good representation of what our future might be like unless the government implements some sort of birth control... on the dumb... I'm just joking, but there is some truth in Idiocracy.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your remarks. Someone else mentioned Idiocracy, too. I haven't seen, but I'll put it on my list.
--Christopher McCabe