No, it's not because of my age. Young people these days are even more in-your-face, "toxic", nasty etc than the teens I knew growing up. I don't think this really changes based on their politics
Basically young people have less chill today than they did 20 years ago
This extends to every form of media. Kids shows like Amphibia and other Disney channel stuff have faster dialogue and animation sequences than stuff from 20 years ago.
Video games: FPS shooters have become faster. Halo was the standard back in 2003, but the Call of Duty overtook it to become way more popular. CoD is way faster paced and you die in 2 shots instead of Halo's 20 or so.
MOBAs: the entire genre is a symptom of this.
Overwatch: combining MOBAs with FPS is also a symptom of this, the amount of stuff you need to pay attention to is insanely high
Everything 20 years ago, and even 10 years ago, was just way slower and normal.
doing a ton of heavy lifting. "it keeps going until it falls, but it's defintely the fault of materialism that it falls even if there is more time between materialism and collapse than materialism and founding."
If you had a society where everyone opened eh door for each other and only played checkers, they would still get invaded and eventually have a really bad harvest. And the farmers would die because they also need to eat and whomever is strongest decides where the food goes, not the people who made it.
well yeah, it wouldn't do anything else. Unless you have communism with a 2-child policy you will eventually just collapse, or invade a bunch of other people. Because otherwise the population keeps rising to meet the food glut produced by efficiency adaptations, and you're just as susceptible to famine as you were before
tbh I'm not really sure what your point is
My point is that this has absolutely nothing to do with your point about kids being too materialistic. You've just done the cycle of empire but included a step where the kids are rude.