What is the psychology of contemporary modernity?

One part of the shift from tradition to modernity involves a psychological softening, with the use of forces other than direct power. On the other part, we have a seemingly irreversable removal olf the psyche from any sense of the natural and organic, because the processes of thinking become more mechanical and so are estranged from modes of immediate experience leading to self-understanding. Modernity also significantly embraces (I have found) arrested adolescence as its core state, at this historical juncture. This does not mean life is devitalised as such, only that to have a significant intellectual impact at this historical point, one must tailor ones ideas and delivery to appeal to those who have developed their world views in middle-school, but not beyond.