Age 18 education (High School Graduation) gets replaced with Joe Rogan podcasts / Tucker Carlson Fox News HDTV
People have zero comprehension of media ecology from school teachers like Carl Sagan, Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan. What you know when you graduate high school at age 18 does not last forever when the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad are filling the mind with replacement ideas and junk information every day.
The human brain does not hold education for decades. If people spend 2 hours every day on Elon Musk X (Twitter) sucking down junk garbage, you get a Clown Population in a matter of months! It replaces all the history, science, medical knowledge for most people.... school education does not HOLD! Just look at the ADULTS like Elon Musk, age 53, Joe Rogan age 57 - they have lost all their childhood education due to constant junk media consumption. Their ideas seem like they all watch Fox News every day for 4 hours! This is the clown population problem! The assumption that school somehow magically stays in the human brain forever and that if you consume garbage Fox News and social media content off TikTok that you don't get "brain rot". LOOK AROUND, WAKE UP People, "brain rot" is EVERYONE ALL THE TIME!
THIS WARNING WAS PUBLISHED IN YEAR 1995 Teacher / Educator Carl Sagan, shortly before he died of cancer, WARNED US already what TV NEWS was doing to people's High School and University education: PLEASE, take this teacher and educator SERIOUSLY on this topic. It has gotten way out of control in year 2024 and year 2025:
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995