^^ isn't the same happening to us now? After decades of TV... Internet kills newspapers... books are either audiobooks or electronic format - for your Kindle, iPad or whatever is the current fad, dear hipster. Forum idiots respond with tl;dr... people prefer to watch a video than to read a review...

Our civilization toys with nanotechnology, antimatter, cloning, and plans a manned mission to Mars... but it's still run by power-hungry greedy bastards (often with little education), while the rest of the population either only cares about their latest Playstation or starves.

On the other hand, surely I will admit that the Prequels' plot was weak, just like the "seduction" in ROTJ ...but this has already been addressed in other threads?