Lack of education is becoming systemic, creating a wonderfully fertile ground for misinformation from social media. The catchy phrase to describe this new era is post-truth, when in reality it is post-educational, but that would be too accurate and would therefore negate the whole misinformation argument. The combination of these two conditions, namely the rapidly collapsing educational system and the rapidly rising misinformation, is producing a generation of idiots. Having stupider people is of course very convenient for the governments, for financial institutions, for commercial moguls, for money making in general. Less questions asked, less fact checking and a lack of ability to judge and decipher truth from lies. But is it really sustainable? What happens when the work force drinks chlorine for detox, when pilots don’t really understand physics and when all doctors focus on lip jobs instead of research? The future generations will rely so completely and utterly on technology to feed them, drive them around and wash their teeth and bums that all cognitive behaviour will be eliminated. Centuries of practical, historical, scientific, philosophical knowledge will be stored into AI databases and having discarded all relevant books for space-saving digital ones, all access will be charged on a monthly subscription. What was once the basic right of education will be the most elite and luxurious commodity, while everyone else will receive their facts from carefully curated Netflix documentaries.