[MrYellowP]

People have grown shallow and mindless, not even recognizing that there is no substance behind many of the things they hear or read.

Now some genius might respond with "people have always been like this" and that is likely true, but the scale nowadays is vastly different. The omnipresence/constant exposure is making it worse and, because parents aren't actually raising their kids anymore, there is no entity left to correct all this nonsense in the minds of the next generation.

Or it's being outlawed doing so, of course.