dumbening

I personally can't get passed my gut feeling that the fact this crap is being distributed as news is taking the public's focus off of much more important issues and is generally contributing to the "dumbening" of our society.

The BlogCatalog Community Blog TonyB 2010

If the planet-devouring search engine is bringing about the dumbening of mankind, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell might just be the last intelligent man, according to New York's profile of him by Jason Zengerle.

Malcolm Gladwell Calls Google 'The Answer to The Problem We Didn't Have' 2008

I've become preoccupied probably more than is healthy with how I don't seem to be as smart as I used to be, that some malignant dumbening force invaded my brain sometime in my late 20s, and is making me stupider, more scatterbrained, and more forgetful every day.

thinking out loud jlundberg 2008

And, from the small screen via your computer screen comes further evidence of the dumbening of America.

Archive 2007-12-01 tanita davis 2007

And, from the small screen via your computer screen comes further evidence of the dumbening of America.

The WritingYA Weblog: From the Big Screen to the Small Screen... a. fortis 2007

Damn, that must have been one rough, ugly, dumbening ride.

Of Form over Substance: a review of Sermonti - The Panda's Thumb 2005

War protests proved that the dumbening of America is on the rise.

Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

The emphasis in high school on a final, standardised test / assessment has led to the dumbening down of educational standards, because of the need to compare apples with oranges.

The Blogging Parson 2009

2002-12-05 - Wait a minute, dumbening isn't even a word!

blue-parade Diary Entry blue-parade 2003