The advent of mass-communication has only highlighted the fact that the vast majority of people are not educated to a standard that would satisfy you.
The intelligence of the populace has not declined, but the target audience of the media has been broadened, if you want a positive spin, think of it as a blow to elitism in politics and media.
It has always been the way that the majority of people are uneducated. To be honest, we’d probably have the best ever standard of education now, if it weren’t for the massive influx of immigrants and the explosion of benefit-babies, who together disrupt the school system to such a degree as to doom nearly entire child populations of certain areas to mediocrity.
“I suppose a dull, easily bamboozled populace is good for the captains of industry up to some point. But such a workforce is anything but good for business.”
What systems of exploitation in history have produce the most powerful and wealthy ruling classes? In every instance you will see a common factor: restricted education.
Such a workforce IS good for business, or why would big business be so eagerly pushing the government to allow them to import millions of uneducated foreigners?
In the UK we have traditionally had very progressive labour laws and unions and other legislation protecting the rights and well-being of the workers. This is why big business wants to have a workforce of dullards, via employment agency, so they don’t know their rights and the company has no obligations towards them.
This has already happened, I have seen it first hand.
The ideal that the establishment is presumably striving towards is dividing the population in two, the educatable and the non-
They will educate as many people as possible, because, yes, technical skills and other expertise is profitable, but the rest of the population would most preferably be dumb robots.