Did we intentionally Dumb ourselves down and start this Age of Dis-Enlightenment?
Age of Dis-Enlightenment that we are living in...
3 – 21 – 2006
Was this the beginning of the Age of Dis-Enlightenment?
Did we, as a society, start to Dumb ourselves down massively about this time?
AOL thought they owned the Internet. Then Twitter and
Facebook broke the internet. Addicted us on the Smart Phone mini screens. The
iPhone came out in 2007. The Android version
of the smart phone came out in 2008.
MySpace and Linked-in were fresh and happening.
MySpace died shortly after that.
AOL and the computer saying… “You’ve got mail” had its day. You were happy that you had an incoming message
back then. Did you have an AOL or
Earthlink email? Gmail did not come
about yet. But the term of “Just Google
it.” caught on fast. Back then the
slogan for Google was “Don’t Be Evil” and how odd that they can not live up to
that now.
We stopped remembering phone numbers. We stopped learning to navigate and remembering routes. We let wimpy "Karen" types tell us who to follow and who to un-follow and then to Cancel them. The rise of Socialists in politics. Taking a Knee. Acting offended over trivialities.
Yeah. That sucks. Welcome to 2026. 20 years of modern internet and how many can not live without logging on. How many have stopped going to the store and just forage endlessly via Amazon. How dumb is that. All those little shops have a hard time staying open if no one shops in person.
Some think it has something to do with Schoolbooks that were from Maxwell and published in the Obama years that subtly sold socialist ideals into the kids minds at an early age. Worked. The all showed up to march with Antifa. Or to go full Marxist in BLM marches. But that is too big a red pill for this small article.
See the links below re Smartphones that dumbed us down. Information at your fingertips. And the Social Media history. I recall MySpace. Newest for me to use is NextDoor. Far better than PATCH. But other news sources like Argonaut newspaper and other weeklies are watered down to almost useless. Does it have to be Electronic to be readable? How dumb is that?
My Quest (above) to under stand the beginning of the downfall of common sense and thoughtful discourse is keyed into this post...
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10216610727134070&set=a.1426571237735
But it is definitely more complicated. But ... It is a thing. We have let dis-enlightened forks take the lead. We need Smarts and Debate. Fair and open debate. The better ideas will raise to the top.
But if they loud obnoxious punk socialists can shout you down to shut you up... What do we get then?
Ask the ghost of Charlie Kirk how honest dialogue is being given a fair part of the microphone time.
My 2 cents is to NOT let the socialist types win. Start by keeping your Whits. And your Cash currency. AND PLEASE, DO NOT VOTE FOR THE SOCIALISTS LIKE KAREN BASS IN LOS ANGELES or San Francisco congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti.
Tossing yourself to the sharks or wolves.
They will eventually eat you.
Smartphones over the years.
https://www.textline.com/blog/smartphone-history
Social-media over the years
https://historycooperative.org/the-history-of-social-media/
