To quote anticausal, lack of intolerance, specifically towards narcissists. We became soft, mostly through the implementation of soft language, through marketing and mainstream media, and the education system promoting dumber and dumber people.
1971 was the year that changed things, I believe.
WTF Happened In 1971?
Money runs everything. And from that year, money officially became worthless. People started thinking in shorter and shorter terms when it came to spending or saving money, because fiat is ALWAYS losing value, so why keep it? And central banks are ALWAYS printing new money, and most people don't even know what inflation is on a basic level, so why bother saving it when the government just gives you a bunch of money for free?
This is what's ruining everything.
There's more dumb and useless people out there than ever before. They're weak, they're testosteroneless, they're sad and unsatisfied, they are drugged and under constant delusion. The quality has been lowering for at least the last 40 years, as it has for the money we use.
There is no incentive to be strong or clever in our society, nor to be kind or reasonable or have actual social skills.
Only narcissistic assholes make it into government jobs and positions of power, because only a narcissist would have the balls to think they have any right to control people and tell them what to do, and find pleasure in it. And this sickness has reached the lower parts of society as well, thanks to masks and vax passport giving every store clerk their 15 minutes of fame and every cop one more reason to harass civilians.
The panic and control strategy has been going on since the Nixon era (war on drugs, cold war, terrorism, both external and internal, especially in Italy, pandemics, currency wars that led to the Euro, and so on) and it transformed the western society into a freak show, and we all didn't notice until 2 years ago, I guess.