That’s interesting, a trade off? Yes I guess it is, but in my opinion there is something missing. I have concluded that what is missing is imagination. Whatever the youth of today imagine they already have. Is that a blessing or a curse?
I read of so many remakes of movies and reboots of TV shows and wonder can’t this generation think of anything new? Where is the creativity and imagination of this new generation and without it what is their future?
I agree that we have lost community, my goodness, I live in a duplex and share a wall with a woman who I have never met nor seen. Such a situation would have been unheard of when I was growing up, everyone met at church or at the general store, or the post office/stationary/drug store. I am glad I grew up when I did.
I’m glad that I grew up when I did, too; but I know younger people who think that the 1980s were the ‘best of times’; and my Grandmother thought that culture had seriously devolved by the time I came along :-)
It’s all relative.
There’s ‘nothing new under the Sun’. Everything that humans have created has been more or less derivative; and what you can create depends a great deal upon the background from which you can draw.
Young people are no longer offered a broad - much less a ‘Classical’ - education; so the field from which their creativity can draw has become more narrow with regard to arts and letters, which have spoken to and referenced the Spiritual; and more saturated by materialist science/technology, with each recent generation.
I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with technological progress - I think God intended us to improve materially, as well as spiritually. But I’m waiting for the generation which realizes the imbalance, and rebels against this state of affairs.
The pendulum always swings.