I think somewhere along the line we lost sight of the fact that future generations are going to have to live here too and we should be doing what we can to make things better for them. Instead everything is internal now and we are only doing what we think is best for us. Not everyone of course, but the majority.
Exactly. And the more individualistic we become, the less we will care about anyone else, or the pains of the future. Compassion is dead.
And empathy.