/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12165085
but even this isn't really the entire issue. I think it goes much deeper and is rooted in the modern world. We live in the first time in history where average people have access to unlimited information about the world and about what they can expect going forward in their lives. I think a lot of people withdraw because they have a perceived sense of futility in living a lifetime in the economic machine saving up for retirement. This combined with the fact that more and more people don't have a real childhood because both parents are too busy with work, technology causing mental illness to get worse and worse, and the loss of community and collective culture.