The world is becoming dimwitted in ways I could hardly have imagined a decade ago. No, I am not talking about Trump. That stuff is expected. I mean events less predictable. For instance, people seem to prefer phones the size of the Gutenberg Bible (16 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches) and want e-readers the size of Teeny Ted from Turnip Town.

And how they vociferously insist that practices and activities that cause them great hardship and cost them enormous amounts of time are “more convenient,” largely because propaganda works and the acts are in fact “more convenient” — for corporations.