Teen suicide rates skyrocketing. Babies having babies. Declining intelligence scores. As a Society we have begun to take the word of the least intelligent, the least capable, the least informed as the revealed truth. Movies have become cartoons with caricatures masquerading as humans.
Buffoonery is now a staple of entertainment.
Language is being corrupted by juvenile street thugs and the noble verities have all but disappeared in a sea of acceptance, of tolerance and denial. With far less money but far more effort we used to teach our children at a level of accomplishment that was the envy of the world. We did not teach to the lowest common denominator but to an excellence that was both our hope for the future and our national pride. I once asked Doug DeCinces, a fair country ball player, how he kept his perspective when our culture threw money at him for playing a game. A 3rd baseman worth 400 Teachers.