I would agree with most of this. Blaming social media is a dead horse now, but not without good reasons. Most of what I'm bemoaning here boils down to frustra

I would agree with most of this. Blaming social media is a dead horse now, but not without good reasons. Most of what I'm bemoaning here boils down to frustration with the apparent increase in anti-intellectualism, and how it pervades everything. If you don't understand enough of what's been discussed before, you can't even have a coherent conversation. There are all too many incoherent conversations going on.