An Aversion to Learning

This, it seems to me, was the big change to Civilization in the late 20th Century.

People do not want to learn anything new but are eager to show the authorities how harmless they are, because they know nothing about them. And they are certain that authorities of some kind are aware of their every thought and action.

These authorities were initially their parents, who formed the dysfunctional families of the Fifties and Sixties, that everyone was aware of.

The next phase of civilization, that I am writing about here produced people who were socially unaware because this would involve learning something new - about themselves.