It seems to me that smart phones and social media have greatly magnified human faults like narcissism, being self centered, lack of empathy for the suffering of others, insatiable need for attention, etc. into a far more widespread problem than they have ever been throughout human history. Technology has effectively replaced genuine human consciousness and compassion with an unquenchable thirst for instant gratification and perpetual “entertainment”.
In short order, a whole generation (and more on the way) has become a soulless mass of “humanity” that more and more lacks the very basis of actually being what used to be defined as being being a sentient and caring human being. People have traded their souls for the shallow, unsatisfying pursuit of fleetingly occupying their minds with meaningless garbage that is constantly supplied by today’s technology.
This drives the short attention spans, absence of coherent thought processes and severe lack of self awareness that characterizes so many “millennials” today, especially those on the political left. They’ve unwittingly allowed themselves to become the useful idiots that Stalin could only dream of