QUOTE(Maunus @ Sun 18th December 2011, 5:35pm)
People have managed to be incredibly stupid for millenia without the internet - they just never had the technology to broadcast it as widely before. I imagine that the percentage of stupid to non-stupid people is pretty much stable when seen on the largest time scale.
"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
--John Maynard Keynes.