True. Combine that a lack of learning critical thinking skills, how to weigh risk/benefit analysis for decisions, learn to research and be confident in discussion of issues, etc,ie. discernment, has left us with a mass of people who find it easy to simply be told what to do and happy to go along to get along. I'm reminded of a quote from Marcus Aurelius on the object of life that was posted here: "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

True. Combine that a lack of learning critical thinking skills, how to weigh risk/benefit analysis for decisions, earn to research and be confident in discussion of issues, etc,ie. discernment, has left us with a mass of people who find it easy to simply be told what to do and happy to go along to get along. I'm reminded of a quote from Marcus Aurelius on the object of life that was posted here: "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."