Romance itself is dying because of illiteracy. When you read letters from the Civil War era, men were shockingly lyrical because they had heads full of poetry. Literacy fuels passion. Beauty, wisdom, empathy, passion are vanishing from the world because people don’t read.
Flirting is becoming a lost art due to the decline in literacy. Those who can flirt the best are usually very witty and know how to engage in banter!