The Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed that 2024 is the stupidest year on record. The past ten years have all been in the top ten, in an extraordinary run of record-breaking stupidity.
2024 saw some incidents of spectacular stupidity, including the election of Donald Trump, the claim that Navalny died of natural causes, Rishi Sunak announcing an election in the pouring rain, Glasgow’s disastrous ‘Willy Wonka Experience’, Raygun’s breakdancing at the Olympics, dynamic ticket pricing fails for that Oasis gig, Rachel Reeves 'boosting growth' by raising business taxes by £40bn and Keir’s call for the ‘return of the sausages’.
The greatest contribution to an increasingly stupid work was made by one man. His actions and pronouncements have single-handedly moved the dial on global stupidity – Donald Trump. His contributions in 2024 included claims that migrants were eating pets, magnets don’t work underwater, and Hannibal Lecter was a great man. And a bizarre speech about Arnold Palmer’s manhood.
Academics now concerned that the planet can never return to the average levels of stupidity in 1850-1900. But the UK government is refusing to fund research into increasing stupidity levels, in case anyone makes fun of them.
Experts are unable to agree on the root causes of increasing stupidity, which are thought to include too much screen time, alternative facts, dumb things on social media, ultra processed foods, declining educational standards, global warming, artificial intelligence, chatbots, the dark web, brain rot, and GB News.