That, and the blatant monopoly of liberals on university faculties. Conservatives produce more children, but they keep sending them to liberal propaganda mills.
I have been told that it is a mental condition. It manifests itself in always wanting a free ride and lack of responsibility. It is primarily observed with people that want large government agencies running their lives.
For most of human history, the universities have been at the cutting edge of knowledge. Their faculties haven't always been right about things like the Flat Earth, but by golly they were trying to figure things out.
Now, universities are a dead weight, holding back the progress of the human race in the humanities and the soft sciences. (In the hard sciences, the universities are still at the forefront.)
Why the deterioration in certain areas? Unlike the hard sciences, there is not a single provable correct answer to each question. That, plus tenure which means a professor's ideas can be 40 years out of date and he's still teaching the same old stuff, may explain the result.
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