Ive thought a lot about that lately and found an explanation (about why do narcicism and psychopathy seem to be more trendy) which satisfies me.
Farms and factories used to employ a lot of people. It was the default job back in the day. So we have two things, 1) it was difficult to get out, especially when you do things superficially and 2), well then, being a "body person" (think muscles) was more trendy than being a "brain person" (think nerd). I dont think the nerds are mocked at schools anymore, I think they are the stars (though its actually conjecture, Id love to verify that).
So yeah, more people out of guetto lives (one might say not the best on average, if you'd forgive me the shortcut here) and the need to look smart socially. Boom psycho crisis.
As a sidenote, same thing happened with the web, it used to be a nerd-with-glass thing (many wouldn't even want to be seen with a computer), you had to have a computer which was expensive and useless for your say, average factory worker.
Now what can we do? Teach children basic psychology, yoga and buddhism maybe? We got to do something because thats a lot of people on the brain market now and thats not gonna end well :)
Farms and factories used to employ a lot of people. It was the default job back in the day. So we have two things, 1) it was difficult to get out, especially when you do things superficially and 2), well then, being a "body person" (think muscles) was more trendy than being a "brain person" (think nerd). I dont think the nerds are mocked at schools anymore, I think they are the stars (though its actually conjecture, Id love to verify that).
So yeah, more people out of guetto lives (one might say not the best on average, if you'd forgive me the shortcut here) and the need to look smart socially. Boom psycho crisis.
As a sidenote, same thing happened with the web, it used to be a nerd-with-glass thing (many wouldn't even want to be seen with a computer), you had to have a computer which was expensive and useless for your say, average factory worker.
Now what can we do? Teach children basic psychology, yoga and buddhism maybe? We got to do something because thats a lot of people on the brain market now and thats not gonna end well :)