It is a combination of a lot of things (in no particular order):
poor nutrition
victim mentality taught kids at a young age
lack of personal responsibility
lack of parenting
schools whose purpose is to “brainwash” people into good little workers
affluence – people don’t have to worry about their next meal so they worry about American Idol instead. Too much and too readily accessible “entertainment”
decline of religion. And I am not talking about belief in God so much as the moral education and stress on service and serving others that you find in most religions at the grass roots level. And for the non-believers, your atheism religion could and probably at one time did, also stress these things.
As part of that, things like the Boy Scouts, and other civic organizations used to be looked up to. Now, not so much in much of the country. Too many people are offended if the Boy Scouts or other civic organizations don’t become cheerleaders for their particular fetish.
“I” instead of “We” or “You”. Everything is about the individual, and not about others.
The huge build up of too many laws.
Related to that, People don’t want to get involved any more for fear of breaking a law or getting sued or whatever. So people don’t tend to know their neighbors, get involved in the neighborhood, and make sure that their own kids and the neighbor kids aren’t out messing around. There was a time that if Johnny was messing around, Mr. Jones down the street seeing him would make sure Johnny’s father knew. Now, if Johnny has a father at home, Mr. Jones won’t tell him what Johnny was up to in order to not “get involved.”
and probably a bunch of other things I missed.
ETC: oh, and probably the fluoride as well. Flouride ingested as been shown to cause mental deficiencies. There is a reason most of western europe got rid of public waters supplies being fluoridated.
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