Meanings
- uncountableThe act or process of making stupider.
Resisting this systematic stupidification is a noble purpose, which can only be pursued in ordinary life.
2016, Michel Puech, The Ethics of Ordinary Technology, →ISBN, page 772 more examples
This type of education for domestication, which borders on stupidification, provides no pedagogical spaces for students, as Chomsky insightfully argues in this book, "not to be seen merely as an audience but as part of a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively."
2004, Noam Chomsky, Donaldo Macedo, Chomsky on Miseducation, →ISBN, page 5I attribute it to successive campaigns of stupidification, not unrelated to actual machinations of the ruling class, shaped in a particular, post-60s way, but also not unrelated to Neil Postman's notion of “amusing ourselves to death” and Mark Crispin Miller's notion of "big brother is you, watching" (on the former, see the book of that tile; on the latter, see Boxed In: The Culture of TV).
2013, Bill Martin, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation, →ISBN, page 347Synonyms: dumbing down
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe act or process of making stupider.
Origin
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