>>11078113>Present day America is what happens when a population lives comfortably for too long.This too. People have forgotten hunger, famine, pestilence, warfare and the universal truth that nature does not care about you. Look at the response to the pandemic: remove all the political trappings and it all goes back to people simply being unable to fathom that they might have to change their lifestyle because of something outside their control.
The energy normally directed towards survival must be diverted elsewhere and evolutionary pressures honing survival instincts and good choices are diminished. People confuse luxury with necessity and leisure with life. Time and stuff are the most important commodities.
