The regression of the human race Options

[NATIONAL BONER D...]

Anyone could preach for hours about saving the whales or making world trade fairer for developing countries, when asked what ideas and issues interest them most. These are all worthy causes and deserve global attention, and I have never heard an argument against saving the whales but if there were not contradicting opinions I suppose this would not be a cause at all and we'd still have ample amounts of these gentle giants blissfully roaming the seas, but that’s not the point. The point is that there is one single issue which demands our immediate attention and must be prioritized above all else, and this is the regression of the human race. As the years progress, we as a people are witnessing a decline in simple common sense. We are just plain getting stupid, and no one seems to notice and no one seems to care.

The unfortunate truth is that any intelligent person who picks up a copy of The Daily Post would find that it is written for someone with the reading level of a third grader and the attention span of someone half that age. The media is not the only aspect of American society which has been effected by this gradual collapse of logic, our political system has become a global laughing stock what with Florida recounts and California recall elections in which the most coherent campaign speech is " Hasta la vista, baby". It doesn’t end there... not by a long shot. It goes all the way to the nation’s capitol, to the president and the leader of the free world,

"One of the greatest things about books is sometimes there are some great pictures"

-George W. Bush

US News & World Report

January 3, 2000

The saddest thing about this predicament is that these examples are not exceptional cases; but alas they are the expected, they are the status quo, they are the norm. Every poison has a remedy and this foul beast, too, has its nemesis. The few that have thus far resisted this demon’s siren song must come together to destroy him! There are a plethora of things that succeed in lowering this country's collective IQ on a daily basis, and eliminate them we must. We should be the first to take up arms to free the nation from the manacles of reality TV and beer helmets. This should be our national call to arms for the last of our kind, the few that have not fallen victim to this wicked temptress. For if America’s fascination with all things inane is not soon reversed, we will be the ones in dire need of rescue and one would hope that the whales would be kind and intelligent enough to save us.