This sheer ineptitude, this dearth of linguistic prowess among native English speakers today, merely reinforces the warnings of generations past... As language goes, so too does your civilization.
Straight out of the Orwell playbook:
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
Harvard dean says students these days regularly fail to understand basic sentences from texts more than a century old - https://notthebee.com/article/harvard-dean-says-students-these-days-regularly-fail-to-understand-basic-sentences-from-texts-more-than-a-century-old
they're teaching us wrong on purpose
Yup, stupid people are easier to rule.
Straight out of the Orwell playbook:
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell