Prior generations placed more value on telling the truth, being authentic, and aligning with reality. Modern people are far less grounded in reality than their ancestors. Most people in history were farmers whose survival required them to discover and abide by the laws of reality.
The cheap energy, unbounded money printing, and complex technology of the modern world has made the connection between cause and effect much more difficult to see than it was in prior generations, providing a fertile ground for greater delusion than ever before.
In prior times, poor choices carried more immediate obvious consequences. Historically, suffering tended to increase with increasingly bad behavior. In modern times, the flow of wealth and complexity of cause and effect insulate people from most of the bad decisions they make, even when those decisions are repetitive or consequential. Bad ideas, bad feelings, and bad behavior are thereby allowed to propagate through the life of the individual and through society as a whole.
In our society, almost all people are insulated from almost all consequences, living in wealth paid for by the virtue and productivity of other people, while some of the worst people are promoted to the greatest wealth, power, and fame.
The effect of insulated consequences in the modern world is that modern problems continue growing larger and larger, both at the individual and societal levels, guaranteeing an eventual explosive confrontation with suddenly unavoidable problems that have increasingly grown beyond the capability of normal people or society as a whole to solve.
As you transcend the degenerate and ascend into experiences that fewer people have, you will begin to see an abundance of negative consequences to poor choices presently hidden from your perception, both in your life and in the lives of others.