The dumbing down of America.
The average IQ is adjusted to be 100 whether it’s a population of Einsteins being studied or bed bugs. In 1996 it was reported that over the previous 15 years the reading difficulty of textbooks had dropped by two grade levels such that 5th graders were reading 3rd grade material. With this dumbing down, society is being pushed toward being developmentally challenged while told they’re average students. Today’s A’s are yesteryear’s C’s. I’ve started referring to “Dunning–Kruger zombies” where botnets of the malware-infected believe they’re better than college educated students, and they’ve got the guns to prove it.