Encroaching Dumbness

When you're fresh out of school or university, your brain is crammed full of knowledge, theories, facts, analytical ways of problem-solving and current understandings of science and the humanities. So what happens over the years as you spend your days and months watching tv, reading comics, playing computer games, gossiping and spectating sports? You're crowding out that academic knowledge with low brow nonsense and trivia. Day by day, you're dumbing yourself further, so that instead of understanding the difference between a cumulonimbus and a stratocumulus, you're following the ups and downs of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's relationship, or you're learning special key combinations for your X-Box kick-boxing game. I'm not talking about myself here, I haven't fallen into this trap at all. But if this strikes a chord with you, please save your intellect immediately and turn the tv off, delete your bookmarks to celebrity gossip websites and become a Wikipedia editor or learn a language.

And read this:

Every hour of TV watching shortens life by 22 minutes