It's probably even worse knowing that people you've met from your childhood have lost the spirit they once had, now they aren't any different from an everyday man being a cog in the wheel. Why did we suddenly stop talking to each other? It's like I've got nothing more left that I can give, I'm no longer of any value. (I'm uneducated)
Times have definitely changed drastically which is why I felt like bringing this up, everyone else had already pointed it out, there are lots of videos and articles about this very phenomenon, but it's still weird how different everyone were back then, as if we shrug it off, to pretend that nothing's changed. Weird generational-scale tactic.