alt Hacker NewsLook at US during late 40s / 50s. Do you think your definition is valid for those times en masse? (apart from the fact that most of those markers slowly improved over time due to overall progress).
Same would be valid for western Europe, eastern part got fucked up by soviets pushing communism and related terror left and right.
> Do you think your definition is valid for those times en masse
Lead poisoning leading to lower IQs, alcoholism was definitely rampant (though less stigmatised at the time), traumatised from the war, aggressiveness towards spouses and each other (see: war trauma)
Yes, it absolutely was.