The concept “dumbing down” can point to a variety of different things but the concept always involves a claim about the simplification of culture, education, and thought, a decline in creativity and innovation, a degradation of artistic, cultural, and intellectual standards, or the undermining of the very idea of a standard, and the trivialisation of cultural, artistic, and academic creations. [courtesy of wikipedia]

Dumbing down example 1 [in-car field recording]: The Boys
Dumbing down example 2 [in-car field recording]: The Girls

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