>>508937132From what i can discern from history, alot went wrong between ww1 and 9-11, if not even further back in time.
..... but i think the more recent events of hyper-minimalism as a (lack of) cultural aesthetic, smartphones (the ultimate hyper-minimalist item), social media as an app-method-technology, Eternal September (the common-izing of access to the internet), (government-grade) spyware and spy-program info-gathering capabilities, (and now AI, primitive as it may or may not still be) are big contenders for 'Certainly Not Helping'.