16 Signs
That People Are Becoming Stupider
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Does
it ever seem to you like people are becoming stupider than ever? There
have always been people out there that have been a few cards short of a full
deck, but these days it seems like more people than ever are a few fries short
of a Happy Meal. Certainly our education system plays a major role in
this. Our children are being systematically "dumbed-down"
by our public schools and millions of them are graduating from high school as dumb as a rock. And the endless hours of
mindless entertainment that most of us are addicted to certainly is not helping matters either. Will we eventually
become a society where only a small minority possess
critical thinking skills? In our world today, logic and reason seem to be
in very short supply and the sheeple seem to have
taken over. As I wrote about recently, in this day and age it is more imperative than
ever that we all learn to think for ourselves. Unfortunately, most people
do not seem to be doing that. Most people seem content to let their
televisions do their thinking for them. Way too many people have a blank
look in their eyes as if they aren't even fully there. But when people
are not thinking clearly, they tend to act very foolishly. From the very
top of our society to the very bottom, people are doing some really stupid
things.
The
following are 16 signs that people are becoming stupider....
#1 According
to a poll recently conducted for Reuters, about 10 percent of the entire
global population is convinced that we could witness the end of the world in
2012. When we get to 2013, a similar poll will probably find that 10
percent of the entire global population is convinced that the world may not
survive until 2014.
#2 A whole host of medical studies have shown a connection between cell
phones and cancer. The World Health Organization has even admitted that cell
phones can cause cancer. But nearly all of us continue to use cell phones
very heavily.
#3 Genetically modified crops have been shown to have some very
negative effects on the environment and on human health.
But the USDA has approved 80 different genetically engineered crops and has
never denied a single one. At this point, approximately 70 percent
of all processed foods in the
#4 The TSA is
entrusted with making sure that no terrorists get on board our airplanes.
But the TSA has been hiring new employees without
even conducting background checks first to make sure that the new employees
are not terrorists....
In
a move that could affect security at airports around the nation, the
Transportation Security Administration confirmed Wednesday it had such a
backlog of background security checks, airport employers were allowed to hire
any employee needed.
TSA
officials said the background checks are delayed, but they are processing them
as fast as they can.
TSA
also will complete background checks on accepted applicants at a later date.
#5 In
#6 Barack
Obama wants to convince all of us that it is not a big deal that he is now
admitting that the "
#7 Down in
#8 A total of
$205,075 was spent to move a single bush that was standing in the way of a
highway-renovation project in
The
bush—a Franciscan manzanita—was a specimen of a
commercially cultivated species of shrub that can be purchased from nurseries
for as little as $15.98 per plant. The particular plant in question, however,
was discovered in the midst of the City of
#9 The federal government is telling us that old-fashioned
incandescent light bulbs have to be phased out because
they are supposedly bad for the environment. But the new CFL light bulbs are actually worse
for the environment. They are filled with mercury and they are so toxic
that if they are broken they require special clean up procedures.
#10 Obama's
top science adviser, John Holdren, has suggested that
we should extensively use geoengineering to purposely
cool the climate of the earth. The following is how CBS News described one of his ideas for
accomplishing this....
Shooting
sulfur particles (like those produced by power plants and volcanoes, for
example) into the upper atmosphere, an idea that gained steam when it was
proposed by Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen in 2006. It
would be "basically mimicking the effect of volcanoes in screening out the
incoming sunlight," Holdren said.
Apparently
Holdren never watched The Matrix, because if he did he would know that blocking
out the sun is a really, really bad idea.
#11 There are 1.4 million gang members living inside the
#12 In
#13 It has been estimated that prescription drugs kill 200,000 Americans every single
year. Yet Americans continue to gobble prescription drugs down at a faster pace then
ever before.
#14 Burger
King is testing a new ice cream sundae that comes with two strips of bacon crammed
into it. There are some Americans out there that will actually eat such a
thing.
#15 Right now,
#16 According to Gallup, if the presidential election was held today 46
percent of all U.S. voters would vote for Mitt Romney and 45 percent of all
U.S. voters would vote for Barack Obama.
Do
you have any examples to add to this list? Please feel free to post a comment
with your thoughts below....
