good thread, many of these descriptors also apply to the personal ideal I strive for; I'd also contest that these qualities are not missing from all "us moderns", but rather a certain class of collective-focused individual, who sees only consensus reality as being relevant
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I talk often about this being a degenerate form of socially-embodied cognition, the horseshoe opposite number to the extreme autistic failure mode, when one is incapable of social cognition; an imbalance between the two generates many failure modes

there's also the factor of the self-abasing Malthusian degrowth cult which pervades much of left politics, which has a major influence on youth culture, and hence the personal worldviews of many millennials/zoomers; what use is long-term thinking if the we have no future?

this is, ofc, ultimately downstream of faith & aesthetics, as is mostly everything. one either believes in themselves & the existence of beauty, or one doesn't; this is v difficult to teach, it happens only in early childhood or not at all. it is a crisis of parenting, of sorts.

without a connection to a strong lineage of faith and courage, one is left to their own devices when it comes to making meaning of the chaotic universe; just look at contemporary culture and think about whether you'd call it describe it with either of those adjectives.