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by tizzy 1426 days ago
It's the reduction of attention-span. Can't have critical thinkers if they can't focus for more than 15 seconds at a time.

I've noticed a lot of people hold conservative views despite growing up fairly liberal because a lot of the solutions to difficult problems are difficult. An easy way out is to accept the first thing that seems fine without any thinking involved. Add to that the fact that it's a worldview that doesn't make sense at first (like many things in maths and science) and people just give up.