That's hard to debate. I always try and ask "
what's changed?". Sure, we all have different answers to that question.
For me, I'd say that humans haven't changed at all. Technology has changed and it is changing us. We have instant access to a vast amount of information. Information that used to take hours in a library to find, and even then what we found was generally inadequate and horribly out-of-date. Communication is easy and instantaneous. Now, everyone has easy access to mind-altering and body altering chemicals. Poor and middle class people who don't want to work have access to money beyond anything imaginable just 40 years ago. So, there is a lot more mobility of unproductive people to live and meander around productive people. Schools and Colleges are no longer a place of learning, but places primarily focused on intense indoctrination of young minds. There will be a tipping point, but when? How? Who?
**** times, indeed.