My friend, I see the insanity/assinitity every day...I live in Los Angeles, the southern capital of the Left Coast. In general, I think there are ALOT of brain dead people in the world, but "devolving" - no, otherwise the good people on this forum would be an anomaly. I believe that we are indoctrinated into thinking that there are more morons because of the MSM. Their credo still is "if it bleeds, it leads". But they have added, "if the Left screams, it must lead".
Don't lose heart! Just stand up and scream louder!
"Are we not men! We are DEVO."
It's a real phenomenon when we're treated to a commercial where a father is trying to bond with his son by getting a full back tattoo and attending the Burning Man festival. Caucasian teenage males looking like idiots by acting black, MTV switching from rock to materialistic gangsterism, overall parental discipline reaching an all-time low, having just one child per couple and the growing trend of putting socialistic Political Correctness over the Rule Of Law are signs that the traditional American Protestant culture is twitching at the end of its own rope.
If a culture adopts self-extinguishing trends for the sake of lies and fallacies it may not deserve to go on.