when did the rot sets-in???

in my opinion, the rot sets when arts stream students taking up degrees in history/ geography lording it over science stream students who took up engineering, the sciences, law and medicine. then of course, our great leader mahathir accelerates the festering wound by his attempt at social engineering and malaysia boleh, semua sapu for the self pun boleh. so what is the remedy. easylah, back to basics is the only way