Read years ago... collection of Sci Fi stories, the most memorable was about a salesman who awakes in the future to discover how stupid everyone is and how hard the smart ones work in order to keep the stupid from killing themselves and his solution... any help would be appreciated... it was my deceased father's favorite

That one was called The Marching Morons, there's more info here: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons)