>>9784447People are slowly realising that there is no greater purpose to struggling in life. These modern times have given us no ideology to follow, nothing actually valuable to fight for. Instead, they only take things from us. Our time, our possibilities of making a family, etc. The only things given to us are endless consumables and their novelty wears off very quickly.
>>9784820The first smartphones started showing up about one year before I went to high school. I didn't notice a lot of change in my classmates' behaviour. People just suddenly became glued to them one day.