https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

Intentional dumbing-down of the entire market.

Microsoft was pioneer in doing that, decades ago.

( the whole instinct to dumb-down everything is culturally-ingrained, & helps prevent critical-thinking, so it automatically gets backing by incorporated DarkTriad “persons”.

John Taylor Gatto’s perspective on education is pertinent,

hell, a bit in a book I read decades ago is pertinent: 2 psychologists who had a daughter herd her talking to herself, while in bed..

so, being psychologists, they stuck a tape-recorder in her bed, to discover what she was saying.

They discovered that she was telling herself the story-of-her-day.

They ALSO discovered that she was complying with their pressure to dumb herself down, to meet their expectations: she was significantly un-dumbed-down in that recording.

That was one of the most-depressing things I’ve ever read.

Mere toddlers are already programmed by our culture into dumbing themselves down, & we’re blind to that, by default??

Makes our whole population significantly less-viable, in this century, that’s for sure.

Dumbing-down & ideological oversimplification are related, & form a positive-feedback-loop, unfortunately )