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The #dumbening of America is in full swing

#socialcontract

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A Theory of Dumb What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?

A shared delusion is called #groupthink. That explains a lot. Exceptionalism makes it worse; #reality has a hard time entering that self-reinforced bubble

@nymag.com wrote about the Flynn Effect as a likely cause of the #dumbening, or “stupiding” of America. I’d add D-K

nymag.com/intelligence...

Almost Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, Report Finds

As the Trump administration weakens fuel economy standards, half of Americans are breathing brain-damaging polluted air

#dumbening

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/c...

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Merchants’ ‘victory’ over credit card fees will just complicate things more for them Do small business owners think that Visa and Mastercard won’t just recoup their fees elsewhere?

I’m running out of hashtags to say how stupid this is: #dumbening? #greed unchecked? Oh yeah:

#affluenza

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#dumbening #idiocracy #magadefined

The #dumbening

The #dumbening