Why are people still so stupid, with all this access to information?

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Because life is easy now compared to a century ago. You don't need to learn anything to get a job, not even manners or how to communicate. And that's if you even want a job. If you don't want one, live off the state.

You don't need to learn to cook. Fast food is faster, anyway. Even if you do want to heat food for yourself, all you might need to know is how many minutes it goes in the microwave for.

You don't need to learn to add up. First there were calculators, then computers, now most adding up is done for you (your bank statements, orders placed on websites, who adds up the figures themselves?)

You don't need to learn to spell. Spellcheckers tell you when you've done it wrong and now automatically correct it for you. One day, decent grammar checkers will exist.

You don't need to learn anything about history. Nobody cares about old stuff, not even about older living people.

You don't need to learn about geography. The holiday brochure shows the beaches are white and the plane takes you there. You don't even need to know how to navigate around where you live. SatNav tells you.

You don't need to know anything about maintaining your living space. Other people come in and can be paid to do that. A hundred years ago, a blocked toilet would be fixed by a caustic soda solution (the crystals would be under the sink of most households). Now we pay a hundred pounds for someone to come around, mix the solution, and unblock our toilets for us because only they are wise enough to know the unfathomable secret of mixing something with water.

We used to go out to the cinema and a newsreel would play before the film telling us what was going on in the world. Now we go to the cinema and all we get are adverts and trailers for other films as dumbed-down as the one we're here to see. If we can bothered to go at all. It's easier to sit at home and push a button to change the channel when the news comes on.

In conclusion, people aren't stupid. They're lazy. If they don't need to know something, they'll choose not to know it. People have always been lazy. That's not a new thing. What's a new thing is the ability to do virtually nothing and yet remain alive.

I wonder as well. I read reviews on products and resturaunts, I look at labels of all food that I eat, I know what I'm gonna spend at the dollar store. People are lazy motherfockers who like to complain. Like the assholes who don't vote but think they have a say when everythings all fucked up the ass.

Because, even in today's day and age, most people over the age of forty still are not comfortable using the internet for everything. Lots are, but most are not.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.

Some men in black knowledge on your ass!

Seriously there is really no good reason, but it will always be that way. Some people don't have access to information, and some who do just don't give a shit enough to take advantage of what they do have access to. Sadly, that's not the biggest problem in this world.

Because people would rather buy into whatever is the easiest or most popular or most readily available.

It's like somewhere along the line we became afraid of our own consciousness, and now people distract themselves from any deep thought or self exploration with mindless distractions and a watered down mass media.

Maybe there's simply too much information nowadays. I think a lot of people are overwhelmed by the complexity of modern life. Just take product reviews for example, there's usually a lot of conflicting evaluations. How do you pick which ones to trust? It can be very time-consuming to get the big picture. Imo that's why people tend to go for easy options even when they're not the most suitable for them by far.

I don't know about the US but in the UK the state school system (which over 90% of the country's children attends) is awful. The teachers are not allowed to push the kids at all so they just do nothing and come out of school sometimes unable to read.

It's true that there's a lot of information on the internet. But sadly, most of it is extremely biased or worse, completely false.

While the internet can be very educational to some, it's not a universal cure for stupidity.

Oh well, I'm gonna go buy some more lottery tickets.

The more tecnology and smart objects like phones,computers and another gadgets just decreases the human expansion of the brain.

In the last 20 years,people have been adapted to this tecnology and have more reliability in it than their own thoughts,that's just pure ignorance.

In the 70's it wasn't like this,learning to do something costed time and applyability,now it's all fast and on time,people don't learn new things,people don't pay attention.

People are getting stupider by the decade,and i'm not liking the way it looks.

Now im just going to all out gorge in this macaroni salad.

USA education at it's finest. Fucking embarrassing.

Because a person is smart, people are dumb.

The education system has been constantly dumbed down by politicians to become solely based on 'scores' rather than the ability to think critically. Politicians pander to the lowest common denominator which gets them elected. The resulting dumb populace doesn't have the sense to hold them accountable or vote for a more intelligent candidate because we all know 'experts' and 'elites' are the worst of the worst and we don't don't need someones who knows more than we do telling us things like 'facts'.

There is no real cure for ignorance. Some are not interested in learning. Some are, but we are all born knowing next to nothing. I assume you are not implying people making the same mistake repeatedly.

ITs the blind leading the blid and sheep following the wolf so were all screwed enough siad

I can't tell how many times I've gotten an e-mail from the supposed Nigerian King.

The answer to some of your question is:
Mass marketing and advertising. People are paying the extra cost for many consumer items to cover the costs for these, and also helping the greedy corporations increase their profit margins.

You have also used a term for a concept in some religions that describes a nether world, which might be offensive to some people, whether they are religious or not religious, thus creating division in society.

Why are you creating division in society?

In future, please try to express yourself in an exclamatory way without using this term or its euphemism.