Well, you see, it started out with this notion of equality
that somehow got reinterpreted to mean that everyone ought to be pretty much the same — well, since you can't raise the lowest in ability to the highest but can lower the highest to the lowest that's what happened. Along the way another ideological force came into play — feminism — and this ideology undermines and devalues anything that is masculine in nature (this is why the legal profession now has little respect for logical arguments, this is why the disproportionate unemployment of young men in this economy is a shrug-worthy event, this is why standing up for what you believe, willing and able to use violence, is so discouraged).
That's how our society changed to a you can't do that!
-society.
Plus “You didn’t build that.” Even those who get something done aren’t honored.