Margaret Mead commenting on speeded-up America in Life in 1968, remarks that seem even more applicable in our time:

“There is tremendous confusion today about change. This isn’t surprising because people are living in a period of the fastest change the world has ever known. Young people have been confronted with the changes, but at the same time they have no sense of history and no one has been able to explain to them what has happened. We are always very poor at teaching the last 25 years of history. Adults have been shrieking about the fact that great newnesses are here but they are not talking about what the newnesses are.”

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“Trance And Dance In Bali,” by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, 1939: