Often chat with school & collage age nieces, nephews, cousins and such. Their total lack of knowledge of history, geography, math and science is appalling.
Their identification with movies, music and video games is frightening.
When I was in college, one of my apartment-mates came into my room with his friend and asked to look at my globe. He was trying to find Greece.
I pointed to Europe, and he still couldn’t find it. He said, “Italy’s the boot, right?” I said “yes” and showed him where Greece was located.
Now this guy graduated with straight A’s in Accounting in the #1 Accounting school in the nation at the time. He received job offers from all of the big 8 Accounting firms after graduation.
He just never bothered to learn any Geography.
Few know how much of anything works anymore.
So technology has turned into essentially magic.
They can't differentiate between what is real and what is make believe. So they depend on “experts” to guide them as they are incapable of reasoning through issues themselves.
This is why people today are willing to believe nearly anything as long it fits into their larger world view and it comes from an "expert".
So in short, they've become sheep to be herded by their betters.
This afternoon somebody tweeted that Obama had never had to meet a payroll. A UC Berkeley alumnus shot back “doesn’t being a professor and a lawyer count?”
Michelle Malkin tweeted “Dear Lord. Clueless tweet of the day. This woman thinks meeting payroll means cashing a paycheck.”
I went thru the girl’s tweets and she admitted she had to look it up. She also admitted that her parents had owned their own business for years. You would think that knowledge would have seeped into a family conversation from time to time.