I think this comic strip gets it right: we live in the Age of the Dumbass. After the golden age, the silver age, the bronze age, and the age of iron, we find ourselves in this age of dumbassery.
By the way, my late brother used to occasionally send me Pearls Before Swine strips, just because we shared a sense of humor.
Huh. For a second, I had to check this wasn’t Mano Singham’s blog.