We are being dumbed down by search engines

TP O’Mahony’s article on ubiquitous celebritist vacuity just about covers it all!

He illustrates the ‘veneerealism’ bestriding the private exploits of the questionably ‘famous’ in his “brief history of celebrity”. (Analysis, July 20).

How sad is it that we are all presumed to succumb to such ‘meso-titillation’?