Yep...I am channeling King Canute!

The 'dumbing down' is a bit like 'global warming' or the paving over of wilderness....it is hard to control, but we can at least document it so we can say "I told you so!" with appropriate smugness.
Some of these are more important than others, though I am not always sure which is which.

The whole point of the article, which was maybe ½ serious, was that disseminating silliness and flat humor has become so easy with new technology that even folks who might not have started one of these whimsical bits of fluff find themselves spreading it.

   Perhaps all *I* want is something to feel superior to!...*wry grin*