During the years the great physicist and futurist Arno Penzias worked at Bell Labs, he penned a diatribe on the increasing complexity of systems and how that would eventually limit knowledge and mankind in general. That is, as systems (hardware, software, restaurant menus, etc) became more and more complex, fewer and fewer people would fully understand the systems, and knowledge would become so 'pigeon holed' that we would in essence, become further and further limited in our ability to grasp systems.

If you look at computing when I started in the late 70's, you had to know everything; hardware, programming, database, calculations, formulas - you name it. Now? Now we have DBAs who are great at database, but know very little about programming. We have programmers who crunch code, but don't understand database. We have specialists who are "experts" at one small corner of something, but cannot fathom related subject matter.

When I was growing up McDonalds had two sandwiches - hamburger and cheeseburger. Now, they have what, 15 of them, and yet what are they? Basically the same sandwich just rearranged with some extra (lettuce, tomato, etc) thrown in.

I would agree with the tenet of the Flaws of Choice, but I would also argue the point Penzias made...

We are become more and more "stupid" by our own choice to overcomplicate even the most simple things, all in the name of selling you something. And that applies for software, hardware, cars, electronics, and yes, fast food joints.

In short, we are building our own "Idiocrasy".