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Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video culture over print culture (and by video, canada, mexico, india, Order Mirapex no prescription, I mean every form of digital media, as well as older electronic ones); a disjunction between Americans' rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, buy Mirapex from canada, Mirapex for sale, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism.

She goes on to flesh out her argument by discussing how video (and all other "digital media") reinforces the continuous shrinking of our attention spans and the general disintegration of our reasoning and intellect.  Indeed, she segues into what she observes to be an "erosion of general knowledge" among Americans.  She reports that
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