Purposefully Confused, ”(…)I think that people turned away from all kinds...

”(…)I think that people turned away from all kinds of outward comment, that is, people dealing with themselves versus the world; they’ve turned inward dealing with themselves versus themselves. So that a kind of self-pitty, nihilism or malice of depression is the norm of the day, and that’s why everybody keeps looking back because they’re afraid to look into the future, and they’re afraid to do anything new. They can’t see they’re tired of what they got and they’re disgusted with even sometimes themselves, but they’re afraid to move anywhere new(…)

I know he’s talking about the music industry, but this strikes me to any other thing being done today, even just regular everyday life.

This is from 1995. We haven’t advanced an inch since then.