The Ladder of Idiocy

Everybody has the potential to be an idiot. Because that is the lowest possible level of human achievement. Everybody starts at the ground floor where we're born, but as you experience and learn more you get stronger, and you can use that strength to move your way up the ladder.
Some of us are capable of climbing further than the others, and some who aren't as well endowed of intellect can make their way up through good-old fashioned hard work. But one way or the other, if you're going to climb the ladder, you have to be strong enough to do it.
Its obviously easier to stay at the bottom, you don't even have to break a sweat if you do, that's why some never leave the bottom. But the more intriguing phenomenon is when people voluntarily climb down.
Climbing down is always easier to, all you really have to do is let go of your perch and gravity will take care of the rest. But instead of a rough landing on unforgiving ground like what happens in real life, at the bottom of the ladder of idiocy is a nice cushy pillow of absent-mindedness and non-thought. So many people feel at home on this pillow it's disturbing.
I think a lot of this pervasive idiocy has to do with the fact that we reinforce it constantly. TV and the internet are designed to make money for someone. And that someone knows what they are doing, they are catering to the basest level of the ladder, because that's the one with the biggest potential audience since that's the default setting and most of us are down there already. And if the people further up feel tempted to check out what all the noise is down there, all they have to do is let go of the ladder and gravity will bring them right down, front and center in the auditorium of nonsense.
But what happens is that when we come down to the ground and look at the TV or the internet or whatever, we see this reinforcement to our own idiocy.This allows us to make assumptions about our own relative intelligence. If you watch a bunch of stupidity on TV, and all of your friends do too, then it becomes normal for you. It gets to the point where you forget that you can climb.
To me, it's not acceptable to sit idly on your hands just because it's easier, and it's even worse if you are one of the people jumping off of the high rungs of the ladder to test out that pillow at the bottom. Yea it's comfortable, because it's easy, and it allows you to turn your brain off. But if you are capable of being near the top of the ladder, that's where you need to be going. Doing anything else just can't be acceptable. Fuck that pillow!