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| − | Mass compulsion [[schooling]] is the most obvious means of dumbing down. Its effectiveness is chronicled in [[John Taylor Gatto]]'s ''[[Underground History of American Education]]''. | + | [[image:Mass compulsion schooling.jpg|left|280px]] |
| + | Mass compulsion [[schooling]], which [[Ivan Illich]] named the "reproductive organ of the [[consumer society]]", is the most obvious means of dumbing down. Its effectiveness is chronicled in [[John Taylor Gatto]]'s ''[[Underground History of American Education]]''. | ||
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Dumbing down is the phenomenon
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Mass compulsion schooling, which Ivan Illich named the "reproductive organ of the consumer society", is the most obvious means of dumbing down. Its effectiveness is chronicled in John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education.
Environmental toxins
Across the developed world, especially in the US, pollution by chemicals with poorly understood health effects (even in isolation, to say nothing of their synergistic effects) is suspected to be damaging the human mental capacity.[citation needed]
Fluoride
- Full article: Water/Fluoridation
- Full article: Water/Fluoridation
Many governments have deliberately added fluoride to drinking water. In 2016 The Lancet classified Fluoride as a neurotoxin.
Modern examples
The Telegraph reported in 2018 that UK Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers find that telling the time with a traditional clock is a cause of unnecessary stress.[1]
"Smart" technology
Adaption to the environment suggests that as machines display "artificial intelligence", their human users may develop "artificial stupidity".
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| Consumerism | Consumerism creates the illusion of inclusion or belonging to the in-group of rich and successful people |
| Learned helplessness | Techniques applicable to running a deep state |
| Sexualisation |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| George Carlin | “Governments don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that... that doesn't help them. That’s against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they are getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want?... They want obedient workers, obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.” | George Carlin | |
| George Carlin | “The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers...but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!” | George Carlin | |
| Pesticide | “Acute pesticide poisoning occurs frequently in children worldwide, and subclinical pesticide toxicity is also widespread. Clinical data suggest that acute pesticide poisoning during childhood might lead to lasting neurobehavioural deficits. Highly toxic and bioaccumulative pesticides are now banned in high-income nations, but are still used in many low-income and middle-income countries... birth cohort studies provide new evidence that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides can cause developmental neurotoxicity.” | Philippe Grandjean Philip Landrigan | March 2014 |
