Lost Generations.
Usually in each generation we like to think we are raising a smarter and more educated next generation.
However, the results of our present educational system, plus the political kowtowing to almost anything of no real value, and the opinions and utterings of the general populace — it indicates this generational progress has clearly stopped.
Perhaps we have reached the apex of our developing awareness and intelligence, and are in the process of “dumbing down”.
It is certainly a painful process.