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user-inactivated  ·  3729 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking

Good question. Sometime after 1900, because in the 19th century people were tuned in as hell, even without radio. Incidentally mandatory high school became a highly regimented thing people did around the turn of the century..