Carl Sagan in 1995 on the "The dumbing down of American"

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5. 25 years before that

Alvin Toffler wrote Future Shock in 1970 suggesting "information overload" in which "input exceeds the processing capacity...which is likely to reduce the quality of the decisions."

It's gotten so bad that today, 54 years later, I think I'd call it "superficial nonsense overload."

I think Alvin and Carl were prescient as evidenced by the apparent recent election of a fascist felon.