getting over it

I know there are dumb people in the world. All you need to do is open up a newspaper and read those tiny little articles that are put there just to make the rest of us feel superior, the "hunter mauled by lion it teased", "theif trapped by microwave", "corrupt millionaire caught by boy scout," etc. But locally, people seem to be forgetting that they have two lovely little hemispheres beneath their skulls. I hear conversations where a boy is trying to flatter a girl while giving her insults at the same time, (and not in a cute boy-kicks-girl-in-school-yard sort of way), people are given with choices and they clearly make the wrong decision... it feels as if everyone has gone a little nuts. Not too nuts, mind you, because that would alert somebody to the fact that THE WORLD IS FALLING APART. Or that it's getting dumber, either way. I think they're synonymous at the moment.
Perhaps it's because of the heat?