What's Happening To Us?

So, today in English we had a Christmas party! The teacher wanted us to play games that either were Christmas or English related. That meant that we could play Apples to Apples or dreidel. Dreidel is a Jewish Hanukkah (Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that falls around the same time as Christmas) gambling game played with a four-sided dice. I didn't play that. I played Apples to Apples, which is a game where you have some red cards and one green card. The green cards are descriptive words (adjectives) and the red cards are people, places, or things (nouns). The whole point of the game is that a green card is pulled out and placed face up. Then, everyone looks at their cards and tries to pick the card that matches the adjective best. Then someone looks at the red cards and picks the best match. Anyway, that's the game we were playing, and about halfway through a green card entitled famous (or something to that extent) was pulled out. Well, what wasn't really odd was that Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the red cards that was put down. What was odd was that nobody knew who Napoleon was, except me and the person who put him down! (For those of you who don't know but should, Napoleon was a very famous, short French leader who had a dream of taking over Europe!) And then, there are all the people who know nothing and/or care nothing about math, science, writing. These subjects have been the core of society for a very long time! People may not like the way they are taught to us (*cough public cough school cough system cough*) but that doesn't degrade any of these subjects!

Seriously, what is the world coming to? Is it any big surprise that other nations are starting to catch up with us? Why can't we, the so called "new" generation, learn what our fathers and our fathers' fathers knew? Is it that we're becoming dumber, or do we just not care? And if we just don't care, WHY don't we? I hate to leave unanswered questions at the end of a blog but, for almost the first time ever, I don't have an answer.