Do you think people had a lot less social anxiety in 1910

No. Why would they? Human mental health hasn't changed THAT much, I think.

>>39297750
Idk, I think I'd be pretty stressed of dying via TB, Cholera, Typhus, or even polio.
If you mean social anxiety, then you'd be forced into being social for fear that your parents may think you're mentally I'll and have you sent to an asylum for "fixing".

>>39297769
I feel like you're lying to yourself avoiding the fact people are clearly socially retarded these days, even my 70 year old grandfathers says young people cannot talk to each other normally anymore and they they seem generally uncomfortable

>>39297827
old people always think the new generation is retarded

>>39297844
He never said they were retarded,

I think the socially anxious had a lot less enablers in 1910. I would be interacting with other people in no time if somebody threw my ass on the street and cut me off from any money.

>>39297750

I think there is more anxiety now than there is back then, but back then if you had anxiety you'd be diagnosed with something like 'nerves' and sent to a mental hospital, and if you had autism you were locked in the cellar

Yes. Social anxiety is an ancient problem.

>>39297827
It's tv that does this. I've only seen it pointed out in two extremely different places but both felt right on. Peter Hitchens and Sam Hyde have both made a point of this, Hitchens with how the media tells people how to feel about things, leading to reactions and opinions which feel entirely unnatural but everyone's too uncomfortable to do anything different, and Hyde with how humour has been horribly warped by sitcoms breaking peoples' brains with their shit non-jokes. Every now and then don't you think you see someone acting like a character rather than a person? I'm sure that shit is an entirely new phenomena.