There will be a general sense of depression, and here’s why
That article is about kids and it’s related to the pandemic, but I believe there will be a proliferating cultural depression (if not exhaustion) as the ideology of progress and development is abandoned.
For thousands of years minds were preoccupied with living righteously for the sake of gratification and serenity in the eternal afterlife. The Enlightenment shifted the focus toward the ideology of progress and development in the earthly realm and kept minds to some extent preoccupied with looking forward toward a future era of promise and fulfillment.
The latter will need to be relinquished over the next several centuries as its obvious fallacies are confronted. Many will go back to religious faith. But in a generally post-superstition, post-socialist, post-modern social reality . . . many will get depressed.
