I am a "street sociologist" of sorts and I wonder....

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Does anyone other than me notice that the world governments and educational systems are seemingly aimed towards making the populace more tractable and less militant by assimilating everyone into stupid mindless drones who cant add (72+45)x(9x12)/9-45 without a calculator. It seems that the days when an instructor would pose a mathematical equation and little hands would fly to find notebook paper and a No. 2 pencil to cipher out what the sum was! In fact my 17 year old daughter is now taking geometry and one of the "required" school supplies for this class is a calculator. In fact the list of stuff that we needed to procure was long and never once refered to college ruled notebook paper and/or any writing utensil save for a barring of the usage of erasable pens. More people these days work on their a$$es pushing keys all day than the much lower number of craftsmen who still work with their hands. The farms that are privately owned and family run are being squeezed out of existence of at best to the brink of their own citification and button pushing futures, by super-ranches that are full of machines and company policies and corners that can legally be cut that shouldn't be in putting food on the American families dinner table. Have you heard people(ranchers) referring to "growing" their livestock or their "produce"(again livestock) as quickly as possible to get it to market. Is this what animal husbandry and love of good solid land to grow food, and a family on has become? Apparently so, because like it or not this is how we're living. Think about this. The average "modern man" would be at an utter and complete loss to survive if the gears of modern civilization ground to a halt tomorrow. I f you are in doubt as to whether or not you are in the 8-15% minority of humans on the planet that have the skills and the abilities to hunt and gather their own food and materials for clothing, housing, communication.As for ANY of the thousands of elctronic gadgets and toys that we view as neccessities today, these would become useless in a brave new world if the elctricity failed to flow, and Ralph's or Stater Brothers would cease to exist in a swipe without goods to sell or communtications they would be dark, empty, and thouroughly useless for anything but group habitation if the grid were to drop tomorrow. Everything that we3 techies holed so dear would be unusable after 3-5 days if the power companies failed to deliver electricity. Scary thought about what you are capable of and how you were to survive if the "network" narrowed down to 1 in your support group within a week of a major supply crisis for food, clean water, medical supplies and services, and of course food. Here's the question, can you honestly assert that you would be among the tiny survivorship if our modern conveniences that populate our world and define it's boundaries for us were to begin to fail?