@prof @hifiman5 Fully agree with your posts. This world has been, and is still experiencing a technological storm advancing and building on itself. The commercialisation and advertising trickery to have us conform to what is represented on television as a societal norm is changing younger generations to look at what they are supposedly lacking, and trying to achieve over-expectations.
HiFi shows are in our case no different. Look at all the eye candy being presented, which is totally out of reach of younger generations in most cases.
Housing major populations is no different. Japan have single person pods for instance. The family home is becoming further out of reach here in
Australia, unless you move further out. Then you are faced with transport and family/school/shopping facilities that have yet to be built, and so on - but I digress.
The more settled (baby boomer era) adults have been brought up with different expectations and appreciation of the world around us. Indeed some of us predate the electronic calculator, watched black and white images of men on the moon, and PC's (IBM being the first commercial one) were non-existent. Riding a bike to school (or walking) was normal in any weather.
Our audio pursuits, particularly those still using the turntable, are looked upon as staid by the new electronic generation. Our pursuit in finding solace in the music we play is as relaxing and fulfilling as a weekend of golf, but perhaps not as social. Is that why we scour these threads for social interaction? Yes at times perhaps this is true, and for myself and I assume for others, to learn from other's knowledge and experiences. Our's can be a challenging pursuit, perhaps more so than golf? (My older brother happens to be a Golf Professional, and his son also). We exchange opinions which amounts to taking the "piss" out of each other, all in good jest. Which is how it should be.