>>80342712Pro tip: People have always been fucking childish.
Current generations have just not been hardened to life to the same degree.
Look at stuff in the 20s and 30s.
Adults are all repressed, violent psychos, it seems.
Fast forward to the 60s. Everyone is a fucking junkie because drugs were sold almost indiscriminately. Also people develop unhealthy ideas about material success, leading to rivalries between neighbors that amount to arms races of who has the richer and happier family.
The current generation knows they are fucked in many ways. Entry into anything approaching a good job seems harder than ever and the wages are stagnant while the filthy rich absorb all economic gains. But digitisation has made many physical goods redundant and the possible experiences seem endless.
Post-materialist attitudes spread in the West as the Asians care more about material gain than ever.
The best-educated, most basically satisfied generation has no real reason to strive for anything much.
So they go play with swords, climb mountains, drill wells in Africa, watch shit on Netflix.
