HOLLYWOOD: And by the way, what does it say about America that something new called “QualityLand” is shunned and they’re bringing back “Beavis and Butt-Head”? “Watching ‘The Sopranos’ in the 1990s, I might have wondered, What would HBO be in the 2020s? If the only fact I had from the future was HBO will be generating new episodes of ‘Beavis and Butt-Head,’ I would have been terrified. What the hell will have happened to America?!”

Possibly related: The Decline of Intelligence in the West. “Recent studies have reported a worrisome decline in IQ scores in Western nations over the last decades, a reversal of the once-hopeful Flynn Effect (named after the late philosopher and psychologist James R. Flynn) which posited a growth in cognitive abilities for much of the 20th Century. Now the Flynn Effect seems to have reversed.”