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No desire to add some clarification, x?
I'm in the "same shit, different day" camp. A surface study of social and developmental psychology will tell you that "problems" exist in society that have existed since the dawn of time, but they were never determined to be "problems" until they were given a name. A real simple example is sibling rivalry. This is something that has existed since MAMMALS started popping up, but hadn't been mentioned in any published child-rearing manual until the early 1900's. What happened after the phrase "sibling rivalry" was coined? You guessed it! Sibling rivalry was blamed for all of society's problems.
Same shit, different day.
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