I don't know, it made sense enough to me — movies don't have to explain everything to work. I actually appreciate that there wasn't a big lore dump, I don't care about any of that.

I think that's overcomplicating the issue. Ultimately, good science takes time, and the academic culture doesn't allow for that.

I don't know about that. Even Harvard has a big grade inflation problem. And non-elite colleges are trying to make it as effortless as possible to get a degree.

grade inflation is the right thing to do as long as employers and post graduate schools keep looking at grades or gpa. if you do strict "fair" evaluation you put your students at a disadvantage compared to same level students at other schools that grade more relaxed. grades should be feedback not something to compare with others instead we should set up a standard state exam (pass/fail, unlimited cheap retakes) to decide if you get a degree. but until that happens keep on inflating

I don't see it. The 1930s weren't that long ago, there are still people alive who lived through them. If you were talking about ancient Egypt, you might have a point.

The 1930s had radically different opinions on race, gender, religion, and a host of other things as compared to today.

The world has entirely different values today than circa 1930. This is...obvious? Read a book or Wikipedia page? I don't know what else to tell you.

The world doesn't have values, people do. And many of them are the same.

it's usually inappropriate to feed a troll, but I'll just say "olympic gold champion was congratulated by literally Adolf Hitler, but not his own country the Unite States - because he was black"

You had your fascists and you had your anti-fascists where antifascists were blamed for what fascists did.

I recommend you read the book "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim, about a Black America in the early/mid 20th century.

Personally speaking, I found the book very 'awe-inspiring'/it made me go 'wow' a bunch, because I found the author's experience so completely different from my own :)

As a brown person in the US, I certainly would have felt a difference between then and now…

It is, however, the setting of On the Road.

Years don't have psychological conditions, people do.

Well yeah, but that's just selection bias. We shouldn't take precautions around strangers because it's more likely that daddy will rape you?

What data measures "childhood freedom"? That sounds more like conjecture.

You can lookup the studies on loss of 3rd spaces and the relation to mental health in adolescents (and adults, albeit to a lesser degree). This is pretty well-trod science

Well trod doesn't mean good. Social science is notorious for bunk. How many can actually support a causal relationship?

This is something that could only be said by a sheltered suburban kid