This is going to sound bad, but I've wondered if the apparent "decline in literacy" isn't attributable to the rise in the number of people going to college; which is to say, I've wondered if it isn't that people are getting dumber, it's that more dumb people are going farther in terms of their education, and so it shows more. Like, over all, literacy is probably much higher on a basic level than at any point in the past (except perhaps the recent past). I do also think some of this is a problem with our education system; it blows my mind how illiterate even supposedly intelligent/well educated people are...but I do wonder...
How was Good Night and Good Luck? I've wanted to see it for some time now...
And the prescription bottle thing is just frightening...maybe some "survival of the fittest" will kick in and the people so dumb that they accidently overdose because they couldn't understand "two doses twice daily" will be weeded from the gene pool....
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Date: 2006-12-02 04:27 pm (UTC)How was Good Night and Good Luck? I've wanted to see it for some time now...
And the prescription bottle thing is just frightening...maybe some "survival of the fittest" will kick in and the people so dumb that they accidently overdose because they couldn't understand "two doses twice daily" will be weeded from the gene pool....