Comment by ffsm8

Isn't that the other way around? People back then had more contact with the darker reality we live in - hence it was more relatable.

Current generation of people in the west have been completely sheltered and protected by the establishment for all their life and have completely forgotten that isn't something natural. With every generation since WW2 this has gotten more pronounced, and at this point people unironically go onto the streets to demonstrate for counties with "less then clandestine governments". They cannot comprehend the reality of living as a powerless victim in a world which will callously destroy them- for no reason whatsoever - because they've been protected from it all their lives.

Or maybe I'm just reading your comment wrong and you meant the same, idk