@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online I'm willing to concede that people are dumb. Getting dumber is hard to swallow, though. I mean, look at history. The 1920s and 30s gave the rise of facism. The 1890s saw a massive rise in occultism and religious revivals (spawning most of the current crop of evangelical churches in the US). The 1950s gave the West the Red Scare and (in the US) McCarthyism. The 1970s gave us disco. People have always been stupid.