5t – I’m not going to list the spiritual defects of klal yisroel, i don’t want to be mekatreg. But syag is right; we might be learning more in quantity than previous generations(though that too is not so simple.. My grandfather’s town in Lithuania had baalei batim learning 8 hours a day… And they were learning like yeshiva men) overall, but there are many deep seated problems that we have too.
The Internet and smartphone culture are the haskalah of European jewry…it needs to stop. We need to look at unfiltered internet access and social media the way we look at television. The haskalah was an existential threat to klal yisroel, and it caused the worst tragedy in our history; the amount of damage being wrought by unfiltered internet and social media is even moreso than haskalah.