Idiocracy, but Sadder

We are more educated and informed than any previous generation, but we’re still becoming more idiotic.

It is a common enough complaint that education levels are falling, public standards declining, and our intellectual diet of Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video—with occasional sides of HBO—is making us stupider. In the political sphere, the past decade has been characterized by moral panics that voters, and in particular “low information” working-c…