>Probably people have felt this way throughout all of history but this time seems different. You're assuming that people in the past were wrong when they felt

>Probably people have felt this way throughout all of history but this time seems different. You're assuming that people in the past were wrong when they felt that way. People love to bring up Socrates being charged with "corrupting the youth" in 399 BC but always seem to forget that Athens was conquered by the more rural, agrarian, and presumably more socially conservative Macedonians 60 years later.