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It is easy to say that TV and the Internet have made reading unappealing to the average person, but even our current intellectuals, people whose job it is to read, seem to know very little history and to write with the flair of someone who just finished a high school comp course.
Of all the generational differences in personality, the most striking is energy and extraversion: it’s sometimes stunning to read about the (voluntary) work output of men like Napoleon, Alexander Hamilton, or LBJ, men who worked and slept and did nothing else
As far as style, what watching old movies or listening to radio broadcasts make clear is that the people of the past were also much better speakers, conversationalists, and storytellers. They were overall more interested in language: debate, oratory, grammar.
Millennials have their diversions, but the main reason they are unsociable is that they are bad at socializing. The right wing can only be revived with new clubs and societies but these the raw social material is so low that such things are not enjoyable for the young.
do you have a theory on the divergence and decrease of work output over time?
I think younger have shifted from burning fat through oxidation to a less efficient metabolic pattern emphasizing glycolysis. As in, older generations were genuinely energetic, but also smaller and weaker.
Napoleon also went to the opera, played with children, went to parties, awkwardly hit on chicks, read AND wrote, played cards, etc. It's not just a question of great men being pure workaholics, although they often were, they just had way more energy in general.
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