One word. CELLPHONES. We gave the little bass turds cellphones.
“CELLPHONES.”
That is certainly a factor, but not the only one. Education, entertainment, and general cultural issues are also involved.
One wonders what will happen to these children of ours should the SHTF.
So often they ask..."What time is it?"
My first thought is to respond.. "Gee, I don't know. You have a miniature SUPER COMPUTER in your pocket that has access to all the libraries in the world and has the TIME accurate in milliseconds for any location on the planet with that TIME conveniently displayed on it's video display SCREEN".... but then I just shortcut to telling them the time because it would be a waste of breath and involve concepts and words they don't understand.