I don't know about the rest of the world but here in America it's the result of the DUMBING down of our culture. If you want to write a book it had better be a 6th grade level or lower or you'll NEVER get published! And Trump and the GOP have taken this mindset to whole new (LOW) level! They OPENLY celebrate ignorance and redneck stupidity! Sad.
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, in Springfield, Ill., 1838
Exactly! And here in the Deep South, they will reduce funds for education to nothing, all the while redirecting funds for things that won’t benefit the community as a whole. I’m an AVID lover of education and once o learned how to SEEK knowledge for myself it removes the veil and allowed me to see that I cannot CHOISE to be influenced by the machine that chooses to “dumb “ us down.