>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n_Crunch#Variations
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>The trend is obvious - our civilization knows more about trivial things like a brand history, than about... compare the length of that page with this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelevin (about a writer).

No kidding. If that can be considered a measure of the decline of Western civilization, clearly we're far past the tipping point.

I've thought for years that the signal-to-noise ratio of the Web as a whole is desperately low. Major portals such as Yahoo! promote stories such as two starlets wearing the same dress to the same Hollywood event as front-page news. It takes major events such as 9/11, or a combination such as the current Libyan troubles plus the Japanese earthquake/tsunami to get the perceived S/N ratio to approach 50%.