Why We Have Become an Idiocracy.

The internet was created as a site for physicists and researchers to post academic papers on.  It has come a long way since then.  Part of the difficulty lies in the existence of user generated content as well as discussion forums.  What it has led to is an idiocracy forming, a long way from the earlier days of strict academic research.  Further, the mass media now promotes stupidity on an unprecendented scale.  Also traditional institutions of learning no longer maintain standards of exactness but have lowered their standards as well.  Traditional teaching forms including such things as film, are now used to spread vile propaganda, violence, hate, drug use, and pornography.  On the internet the biggest mouth wins not the smartes.  So I would say that America in particular but also the world has indeed become an idiocracy on an unprecedented level in history.