Mad in Brasil: This essay stems from a feeling shared by some people and recently investigated by science: that we are becoming less intelligent. *Digital Cretin Factory* (Dermuget, 2021) and *Century of Imbeciles * (Hugo Mãe, 2026) are two books that address this unease in different ways. The first is a collection of scientific studies showing how the excessive and inappropriate use of information technologies has negatively affected the cognitive and emotional development of children and adolescents. * Century of Imbeciles *, in turn, is a satire that would work very well as an allegory for the book *Amusing Ourselves Until Death* (Postman, 1985). Postman made a scathing and ironic critique of how the media addicts, hijacks, and alienates while entertaining.
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