In article , Dwight Stewart
writes:

Remember the Village People, Kiss, Disco, the
song Muskrat Love, houses filled with incense, chopper motorcycles, the song
My Ding-a-Ling, Elton John's sunglasses, and so on.

Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs comes to mind....

Actually, I don't think that people ae dumbed down
compared to whatever mythical time that they were
"smart".

There are many different kinds of intelligence. And education. For me, the
fundamental questions is something like: Is the
person/activity/education/institution productive or destructive? (IOW, does it
help people or hurt them?)

I agree. Every generation has had it's moments - both good and bad.

And the term "generation" is deceiving. At the same time the above sillinesses
were commonplace, others of the same "generation" were doing great things.

BUT! the individual tests can be "smartened" or
"dumbed". All that is up to us. We decide.

To a certain extent. Nobody has yet come up with a way to convince FCC to go
back to doing the testing themselves. In fact, all suggestions to improve the
writtens were rejected by FCC back in 1999.

We can submit more and more questions to FCC for the question pools, but FCC
retains the right to dump those it doesn't like.

73 de Jim, N2EY