Sometimes, I get the feeling that stupidity is self-inflicted. That people are really only as smart as they want to be. And that for some reason or another, the youth culture has decided that intelligence, and perhaps even thought itself, is something to be stigmatized, something to be avoided at all costs. And that the kids followed suit, dumbing themselves down in order to be accepted, to fit in, because being smart means being a nerd, and being a nerd isn’t “cool.” And maybe—just maybe—there was a time when we didn’t feel like intellect was something to be ashamed of, but we’ve stashed those feelings away in a little tin box with the rest of our childhood memorabilia, because that time is past, and now is the time to grow up, and growing up means going dumb, it means getting hyphy, it means downloading “This Is Why I’m Hot” in droves until it reaches #1 on the iTunes Store.
Smart kid. [BrokenLogic]
