stupidification

English

Etymology

stupid +‎ -ification

Noun

stupidification (uncountable)

1. The act or process of making stupider.
   • 2004, Noam Chomsky, Donaldo Macedo, Chomsky on Miseducation, →ISBN, page 5:

     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."

   • 2013, Bill Martin, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation, →ISBN, page 347:

     I 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).

   • 2016, Michel Puech, The Ethics of Ordinary Technology, →ISBN, page 77:

     Resisting this systematic stupidification is a noble purpose, which can only be pursued in ordinary life.