The answers to that vary in opinion greatly as well. Just by responding I feel like I am opening a can of worms.

Could be so many things or maybe its all of them combined.

Like what? :

Lack of community(do you know your neighbors first names and something about them? If not what makes you think the strangers you call neighbors will step in and disallow things to happen? If they don't know you, how are they to know that the person unloading stuff from your house into their car is not helping you move? After all, they don't know you, you could be moving, back to watching T.V. for them.).

One room school houses no longer the standard.

Corporal punishment being labeled abuse(yea I know sometimes it really is).

Welfare that does not have to be paid back for able bodied adults.

Poor education systems.

Cheap oil/energy.

Society being nearly split between the ones who want a police state and cradle to grave health care, etc, etc, and the ones who wish they were simply born in the wild west era both trying to accomplish their agenda and being stifled by the other side to the point where many are almost afraid to move.

A system that puts offenders in a cage with a food and water dish and just expects that to be enough to change them rather then actually attempting to educate them, etc.

A country that has decided that rather than change the way they get around, they will attack the problem by burning food in their cars instead, following by complaining that food prices are skyrocketing, and refusal to see the association.

T.V.'s being used as babysitters or sometimes even parents.