Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away? — Aliens

Did you ever get the sneaky feeling that Idiocracy was prophetic?  Our grandfathers had Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.  We got Clinton, the Bushes, and Obama.  The civil rights leaders of our parents were Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.  We got Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.  The TV shows of my childhood were Gunsmoke and MASH, which were somewhat complex and made you think.  Nowadays we have HoneyBooBoo and The Biggest Loser.  We went from Abbott and Costello to Smokey and the Bandit to Dumb and Dumber.

I don’t understand it.  We are standing on the shoulders of giants, but we are accomplishing little.  The information revolution we are enjoying is an outgrowth of research that happened in the 1970’s.  We can’t put a man into low earth orbit without going to the Russians.

What in the heck happened?