Global and national matters taking precedence over local matters thanks to
transportation, rapid communication, and organization-dependent technology (the individual now has very little representation)
The fruition of surrogate activities (video games, sports, bodybuilding, etc.) over biological goals (survival, procreation, raising children, etc.)
Shorter attention spans: many primitive peoples, when they didn't have work to do, were quite content to sit for hours at a time doing nothing at all (boredom practically didn't exist)
A lack of autonomy, the modern person's day-to-day life relies on the whims of a few bureaucrats and corporations (people used to be able to survive on their own)
Disruption of the power process (there are relatively few attainable goals in modern society that require real, hard effort)
The employment of anti-depressants which act towards making the population docile towards the broken system, and unwilling to act on what they believe is morally correct (also as a result of surrogate activities)
The destruction of tightly-knit communities and ancient cultures
An eventual energy crisis (we'll run out of fossil fuels soon, and we have no alternative with a similar EROEI)
Environmental destruction (ozone depletion, greenhouse gas emission, etc.)
Surveillance, and/or a general lack of privacy (think of Facebook's data mining)
A "Brave New World" (yesterday’s science fiction is today's fact)
Overpopulation, causing increased stress and aggression
>An general increase in social and economic complexity, meaning there will be frequent, hard-hitting crashes and recessions that the average person cannot predict or comprehend
A "mouse utopia", or behavioral sink (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink)
Human competition with machinery, requiring more and more worker training to keep pace
Both oversocialization and undersocialization, with a middle ground being few and far bet
