>>212645132Partially true, but there was also heavy family involvement in peoples' lives. Large families that mostly stayed in the same area, familial connection not only with both parents and siblings but grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, extended family, neighbors.
Now kids scatter across the country or world for education, then scatter further actually working their career, with most office jobs now being optimal to swap between regularly as a nomadic worker (waiting for an offer from another company that's an upgrade > trying to climb one company).
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>>212645792 shallow, self-obsessed lifestyle is just the natural cope to a lonely life with none of the lifelong close relationships we were wired for for all of our existence up until the last few decades.