(In Canada) And yet just over 100 yrs ago people were barely literate, didn’t drive and didn’t venture more that 1 mile from their homes.
Books were a rarity and expensive for the average person, manual menial labour was the norm. The average vocabulary was quite small.
This day and age almost everyone is literate and reads, knows of the world and other cultures, if they dont drive they at least have public transit…. And vocabulary is astounding!
I don’t think we are regressing at all, everything changes,