>>715095920 (OP)
its because back then talking to someone across the world was a novel thing, you didn't hear about some war till it was weeks already in, you didn't hear about how some cunt named kat left her son in the car with the sun blasting him through a window causing him to die, you only heard about this if it happened in your local area or someone told you about it.
Humans are not built to hear about the problems around the world along with the daily problems they will have to deal with. We are not equipped to handle a fucking thing that is going on right now but we are expected to some how understand it and have an opinion on current matters in places of the world you may never see or hear about till the next big thing that requires your opinion.
God help if you have the wrong opinion your job is gone, doesn't matter if you don't care or don't know anything because you live in your own little world (as you fucking should) people will actively go after you to ruin your life via physical threats, financial ones or emotional threats.
this is why we have so many freaks right now, people have a mental break but instead of helping them we give them a platform, some people don't even realize they are broken mentally and just keep going.