In the current generation we find ourselves in I’ve been wondering if people are getting more stupid or is it the most efficient way of getting attention?

I mean look the average person we find on television. 95% of the people you see on Jeremy Kyle have the cognitive stamina of a loaf of Warburtons and the majority of those debates involve haggling how much of their job seekers allowance contributes to their illegitimate child’s welfare, and even then it never a dead certainty that they have the same DNA.

Changing the channel onto something less intensive is something like Road Wars on Sky Three where we witness traffic patrol police who spend their working hours either winding up drunk people making their way home or chasing some kid who thinks he’s a cross between Michael Schumacher and Niko Bellic. And that’s another thing, every time I watch that program they always investigate a car which is suspected to be harboring drugs, only to turn towards the camera and show how the car’s glove box is secreting drugs.  Do you even know what secreting means? Is there some kind of endocrine gland which naturally produces cut cocaine? Because if there is that’s one hell of an organism! Do the jungle and hills of Colombia have tribes of Vauxhall Astras being harvested by the local cartel? No! Or is it that people have to spout nonsense because they’re on TV?

It’s like when stupid people learn a new word and hold onto it like a pitbull with a squeaky toy. One of the first jobs I ever had I remember a load of middle aged people used to tessellate plastic boxes and proudly proclaim they have amalgamated them. The fact they said it with such pride and it was as if I don’t know what it meant! Yet when I described something as decadent, they all looked at me as if I climbed on their breakfast table a defecated in their Coco Pops.

Another example where I’m dubious as to whether people are genuinely stupid is when, for 4 months a year, Channel 4 was polluted with corralled members of society in a mirrored house and they called it Big Brother, like some reference to George Orwell. I swear that the producers specifically selected the most retarded people who applied but could at least, to some degree, dress and feed themselves. Plus when I come home from work, the last I want to do is lie in bed and watch someone else lie in bed. It’s stupid! Its for this reason that I don’t watch a lot of television. Sure it’s fine for background noise but so many programs excluding documentaries and the news is brimming with idiots. Ok scratch the news, Meridian Tonight has Fred Dineage on it.

So maybe that’s it. Today’s society acts dumb because it helps the world go by without worrying about potential Armageddon and perhaps one day. just maybe, they can get on TV, as if that’s some pinnacle of existence.

Hypothesis: People act more stupid than what’s accepted to get on television