It’s been said that ignorance is bliss, but it seems to me that stupidity is running amok. My mother informed me many years ago that it’s not nice to call someone stupid, so I will bite my tongue and follow her advice as I discuss the lack of intelligence in some people these days.

As humans leave the womb, most of our bodily organs are functional as soon as the umbilical cord is snipped. The brain starts receiving and storing data at birth and continues to do so as we age, typically....