Thinking Outsourced

In the old times, people used to get stressed out when forced to think too much. In modern times, thinking has been outsourced, leaving people free to just enjoy living.

In a modern economy, specialization allows ever greater efficiencies, growth, and more and more happiness for everyone involved. This is because people who are good at one thing perform that one thing, and people who are good at something else perform that something else. Everyone does what they know best, and everyone collectively wins. This is the concept at the heart of Capitalism.
Shoemaker outsources shoe-selling to a seller, and expects the seller to sell the shoes efficiently and at good profit margins. Shoe seller has in turn outsourced shoe-making to shoemakers and expects them to make good shoes to sell. Both rely on each-other's work, and at the end both win. Whether the concept of specialization for overall efficiency always universally applies is really a topic for another time. Today let's think about thinking.
Modern Democracy has clearly arisen from this very same Capitalist concept of outsourcing certain activities to be more efficient in some other activities. In a modern Democracy, voters outsource their thinking to elected officials - politicians - who are contracted to do people's thinking for them.Voters have to do only a little bit of thinking to choose who is it who is going to be responsible for thinking for the voter, after which the voters can delegate their thinking to this person - via a procedure called "Elections" - and turn their own brains off. Now it's up to the person to whom thinking has been outsourced to to perform the client's thinking for the client.
Evolution via specialization and outsourcing of thinking has evolved over the years rapidly. People not required to think have been evolving from dumb to dumber, and have had the luxury to engage themselves in more entertaining distractions such as watching TV, gossiping, and simply having fun. No more stress due to too much thinking!