Wow. That is an excellent point.

A few things come to mind.

About 25 years ago, I met a women in her late 80s. She said that people were far more emotionally mature at the end of the 19th century than they are now. I believe her. The Greatest Generation did not think the way the Baby Boomers do.

I also think the Esalen Institute in Califounded (founded 1962) was responsible for the New Age movement, and together with Dr. Spock, the pediatrician that advocated parents to let their children do whatever they liked without discipline, etc. was reponsible for the emotional immaturity of the baby boomers.

With each succeeding generation, children never faced the hardship necessary to grow emotional maturity.

I don't think it has anything to do with the education system, although I do think the current education system has a lot to do with the incredible ignorance of the majority of people in some countries. I think emotional maturity comes when people are taught to accept emotional hardship, and then, in the absence of that ability to handle that hardship, they turn to invisible entities out of desperation. It helps if they grow up in a culture where those entities are accepted as actually existing.