spiritual hibernation?

and, it just happened Russell Edson so said:
"...I'm pretty much a hermit, but my impression is that there is a kind of uninspired dullness. Not so long ago there seemed to be at least some interesting personalities. They've either died or gone into spiritual hibernation. Of course one can never really know what's happening until after it's happened. That's why in most cases we're usually too late..."

是時機太晚？
又或總在當時，人了無知之？