What has affected our society was the world wars, and our loss of self confidence that resulted from it. Our civilization has spent time, treasure and blood to drag the rest of humanity kicking and screaming out of universal ignorance, mysticism and endemic poverty. And we are still dragging the one primitive civilization remaining, kicking and screaming, out of ignorance and poverty. Why havent the communists apologized for murdering 100 Million people in the last century? Why haven’t the socialists apologized for the suffering they caused? Why hasn’t the rest of the world created ‘Western Civilization Appreciation Day” for saving them from disease, hunger, murder, ignorance and mysticism?
I don’t know. But that is what has affected our society. That is its malaise.