We're heading back to the Trees!!

I don't have much truck with the theory of evolution, there are a few too many gaps for my liking, but supposing that I did agree, is it possible to state that the human species is de-evolving?
    Not in terms of physical attributes, average height is increasing, mortality rates are diminishing etc. But what about the notion of common sense, the value of intelligence, a comprehension of the true nature of reality? I would argue that these essential human qualities are fast disappearing.True there is a passing nod given to intellectuals but always it is to the boffins whose views happen to coincide with the secularism that is rampant in Western cultures. But mostly reverence seems to be paid to the qualities of ignorance, world weariness, hedonism and victimhood.
  Western society had descended to the level of the spoilt and dissolute child who if they find something too challenging complains about it and waits for the doting parents ( in this case the body politic) to make life easier.  In Ireland during the Celtic Tiger years the biggest boom was in construction, but after that it was advocacy services. The number of quangoes and advocate support services that sprang up was astounding. Liberally subsidised by the government they ran around making work for themselves, endeavouring to right wrongs and make sure that they kept their vastly overinflated wages. If you stubbed your toe then you could rest assured that there would a helpline to ring to get help and counselling and to commence the legal process whereby you sued the table maker (for not having a warning on the table that the legs could hurt!!!).
     So we wait for the state to make things right and level the playing field, while go about in our little goldfish bowl, cajoled into impulse purchases, triggered by carefully targeted advertising. Why bother to strive? Why bother to adapt? Why bother to be challenged?  Yet it is these very issues that make us human, that differentiate us from the rest of the living population of this planet.  So now we revert to animals, passive in our environment unless acted upon by external stimuli. Pavlovs dog?
    It is a sad indictment of human history, the Iron age, Ancient Egypt, Roman Empire, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution and X factor!!!
  If we do not appreciate the gift of our creation, if we do not recognise Christ as the centre of the universe and the centre of history,  then there is no progression. We will find ourselves repeating the mistakes of the past. Incidentally does anyone see the similarities between reality TV and the gladiator sports of the Empire. Both were designed to placate the population and keep them quiet and docile, chattering about trivialities. Why?