In a poor country with a lot of social trauma I now understand that this detachment was helpful.

Definitely. But I also wonder if the bar for "social trauma" just gets lower and lower, no matter if things are improving. Similar to what we were talking about the other day - trauma is now getting called the wrong pronoun. Put them in real hardship, all of this "suffering" becomes irrelevant, doesn't it?

It’s strange because the philosophy is very old and lots of the social problem are very recent.

Times change, technology develops - the human condition is much the same.