Talk about a show with a mind-warp for my parents’ generation! This is a book that takes what popular criticism of media in today’s culture has rather emphatically stated as truth and flips it on its ear. Not only is pop culture making us smarter rather than dumber as a nation, but there’s even a name for it: “The Sleeper Curve.” Now, I’m not sure how someone in their mid-50s or -60s would react to this book but I know that even the cover of it has elicited snorts of disbelief from my co-workers. However, when I have explained the theory to someone they begin to think and question. Invariably,…