‘When
planning for a trip you need luggage’. The sentence was followed by a
photograph of – yes, you guessed it – luggage.
After
scrolling down to the end of the photograph I came across another sentence.
‘for your trip you might purchase some clothes.’
Another
photograph. This time of clothes.
I
decided, if I continued to read the article I would probably come across things
like, ‘to go on the trip you will have to catch an (airplane/train/bus)’. With
a photograph of an airplane, or a train or a bus – which ever applied.
Almost
it seemed that the writer believed that the reader was not bright enough to
understand words, and therefore had to be shown a photograph for recognition
purposes.
You
might laugh. But seriously, it seems that the average IQ around the world is
decreasing. As someone pointed out we are becoming
more stupid.
Another
American article points out, ‘average IQs are dropping all over the
globe, SAT scores in the U.S. have been declining for decades, and scientists
have even discovered that our brains have been getting smaller over time.
So
if it seems on some days like you woke up in the middle of the movie “Idiocracy”,
you might not be too far off.
Much
of the stuff that they put in our junk food is not good for brain development,
our education system is a total joke and most Americans are absolutely addicted
to mindless entertainment.
Fortunately
we have a lot of technology that does much of our thinking for us these days,
because if we had to depend on our own mental capabilities most of us would be
in a tremendous amount of trouble.’
It
makes me wonder if, in fact, the phenomenal use for photographs – I mean we even
have a social platform dedicated to pictures – is anticipating the day when
we’ve lost the art of reading and have gone back to the Neanderthal age when
scribbling a picture on a rock was the only form of communication recognized by all.
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