I think it is true. Look at children's literature. What was written for younger readers a hundred years ago is now considered high school reading.

One of the foremost children writers of my childhood has stopped writing kids books and only writes for adults now because parents started getting pissed off at the fact she wrote about serious topics in her kids books. As if kids are supposed to be protected from having to deal with puberty, with the death of a loved one, from the sad things in life a that happen.

If kids can't read about these things in the safety of a child's book, and parents don't want people expose their children to these things, then how do we expect children to be able to face the death of a grand parent or a parent or a school mate. Because most of the parents that don't want their kids exposed are also not discussing it with the children.

Look at t.v. and movies. The intellectual quality gets lower and lower and lower every decade. It's as if there is an attempt to lower the overall public intellect and awareness so that people are easier to "guide" and "control".

The old theory that people didn't have enough access to information to make knowledgeable decisions on policy so we need our politicians to do it for us doesn't hold water anymore.

So there has to be a way to make people more docile and controllable so they can keep the power in their hands and not in the hands of the general populous.