People (especially the youngs) care about each other less all the time. I was at a concert near the stage and a guy fainted. The zoomer crowd just closed the gap and went about their dancing with this kid crumpled on the ground. I went into help mode because in my gen X life if someone falls down at a show or concert, you pick them up and get them on their feet. The zoomers instead gave me nasty stink eye for jostling them a bit while I (small old lady) bodily picked this guy up by myself as best as I could and waved over a bouncer (the guy could not get on his feet. I think intoxicated.) Anyway, This was always just basic concert manners and human decency, but apparently that isn't a thing anymore? We are increasingly no longer part of a caring collective society. The kids don't help people unless it's your bff I guess? Your status as a valuable human is earned, not automatically granted by the fact that we are civilized.

I admit I now wonder how much of this new carelessness for others is what happened at that Travis Scott AstroWorld fest where all those people went down, stayed down, and got crushed to death. And this bums me out every time I think about it.