[sourcery]

They're professionally hungry. We no longer are.

Bingo. That's the root of the problem: a socioculturally-driven devolution of the character of the American people. That's the fundamental process at work, as opposed to immigration, H1B visas, outsourcing, etc. Those things are all effects, not causes.

[John Will]

I may end up somewhere else than America if this trend contunes. I was one of those nerds in Highschool. It's so pitiful the way learning and intelligence is disrespected, the current ghetto curtrle fad encourges this stupor also. Liberalsm is the factor, we need to get the liberals out of education.

[Iris7]

Yeah, "proletcult," as Orwell put it in 1948.