I feel like they're sequential. (Wokeness+mouse utopia)×the internet=the economy and dating are fucked and everyone is a pussy about it.
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A combination of all but I'd add one more thing: The previous generations essentially built up a culture based on a foundation of lies and half-truths from the 1960's until the present. When this became unsustainable and with currently no way out it becomes obvious that Gen Z is crippled.
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The unwillingness of previous generations to socialise or dicipline children. Once women entered to workforce, parental participation dropped and paid daycare services and educational institutions filled the void. Both punish initiative and reward domesticity to the point that the children cannot evaulate risk and in turn see everything as a threat.
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It’s so ironic many of us are internet addicts and socially awkward nerds yet we are willing to admit the damage the internet has caused.
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Psychology major here, last semester I did a paper on anxiety and I found studies where the longer someone uses social media (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc) the more likely they are to have anxiety and depression. Removing them from their lives actually improves their health fast like a smoker who stops smoking too.
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The lack of purpose. You can live like a king but feel miserable, if you don't think you're doing something meaningful. Same goes the other way around. If you know you're doing the right thing, you can endure all hardships.
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I think the internet is the primary enabler of the other options. Those other things existed before the internet, but the internet has done a lot to exacerbate these issues to record levels.
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High divorce rates probably have something to do with it, too. Lots of kids grew up in very unstable environments.
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1 and 4 in my opinion; the internet and its consequences fundamentally changed how society functions at almost every level which directly influences dating, but as someone who is almost literally the oldest possible Gen Zer, I must say: being almost 30 and having never made more than 37,000 a year (despite being a welder) in an economy where the average RENT is out of my budget without roommates, the economy is a particularly STRONG source of loathing and anxiety.
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Democratic Totalitarianism, the state is too involved in their lives. Cradle to grave causes a severe stress reaction
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Does anyone else remember when “don’t trust everything you see online” and “the internet enables people behave badly due to the anonymity and lack of social consequences” were extremely common knowledge and things to say? Also I wonder about the nature of the degradation of people’s mental and social abilities from social media. How much of the effects are from constant usage and how much are permanent after using it for a given period?
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I think a general sense of hopelessness has been instilled in the younger generations. The world is ending, you are small and meaningless, you’ll never own a house, etc. I think we need to battle both the circumstances that cause this hopelessness and also the hopelessness itself. Yes things are bad, housing prices are ridiculous etc. but things can change. The sun rises each morning.
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Honestly, a bigger reason is that we live in such luxury and ease created by the last few generations. We have so few real modern problems that we end up creating more. Previous generations had to deal with wars, poverty, and turmoil fall more than anything we have today. Now, that changes if you grow up in worse conditions. There are still plenty of rural Americans that are born to tougher lives, work hard from an early age, and don't have it so easy. They tend to be a lot more mentally resilient.
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Dating right now is an impossible situation for both parties right now, and the economy is in decline. People like me get judged for staying longer with their parents even though it is financially the wisest decision and their parents don't hate them. We are seen as underdeveloped even though the society we were thrust into as adults is hard to interact with in the ways we were taught to.
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I was born in 79. I still remember what it was like as a kid to not have cell phones and internet. I grew up healthy playing in the woods and using my imagination. The kids nowadays have been robbed of a childhood
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Rampant divorce and lack of socializing in a functional community. Everything else is just stacked on top of this deeper problem.
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Lack of human contact and interaction specially when they are children, a critic window of development.
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Nearly every pillar of our civilization has been neglected or actively undermined for decades. It’s not any one of these things, it’s genuinely all of them at once. Any one of these large scale problems is enough to cause a lot of stress in people’s lives but gen-Z is having to deal with all of them at once AND the complete awareness of how bad it really is thanks to the internet and older generations hoarding wealth AND older generations somehow refusing to acknowledge that these obstacles even exist for gen-Z and still holding them to expectations from when a house cost $15,000. For me it’s a combination of the predatory nature of society combined with the unnatural isolation caused by the internet and feminism. The state of our economy making any real financial freedom almost a pipe dream not because the wealth and resources don’t exist but because the older generations and people in power were so corrupt and selfish that they have built every system in society to actively work against newer generations all the way down to preschool and on through the professional markets. The dating scene is an unsalvageable nightmare of mental illness largely caused by propaganda fed to young women and men creating toxic, self destructive in different ways for both genders, beliefs that were pushed since kindergarten by Karens which have somehow managed to imbed themselves in positions of influence at nearly every level in order to enforce their narcissistic luxury beliefs on the rest of society. I could go on a lot more. That’s why. It may be hard to see from our point of view but if you can abstract from our little moment in history you can see that everything that’s happening is a natural process. Truthfully a lot of the suffering in the world is due to people taking things and themselves way too seriously. I know a lot of things look bad right now but the good in the world always outweighs the bad if you take the time to look for it. Enjoy a sunset, listen to great music, play, laugh with some friends. The world doesn’t depend on you, you are just a small part of the world and that’s all you need to be. Don’t worry, be where you are.
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Option 4 and it’s not close, the desire to survive and reproduce are the most basic human traits and when they are taken out from under you you have 2 paths, completely check out of society or revolution
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As you grow older it changes. When ur 12-15 it’s the fact you lived an overprotected life and for the first time you are exposed to the outside world When you are 15-18 it’s because of dating and the internet as social experiences become more important overall. This is also where u see people develop into sub-cultures like incels and hikikomori as a reaction to difficulties, almost a defense mechanism. From 18-21 it’s mouse utopia as social interaction broadens and the hollowness of society comes to bear its weight upon you. You see your peers fall one by one to the traps of this world, and perhaps you have as well. Lastly 22 and beyond it’s the economy which messes you up. I am personally over here and I feel although other factors make occasional appearances here and there, they are a minor inconvenience compared to the economy. Seeing your family sink into poverty because of the bullshit of today’s economy, working your ass off and having the job market screw you over, throw all your savings into a business and have it wiped out because of stagflation. It’s hard to stay optimistic at times like this, but that’s when you have trust in god and his plan, for that is the ultimate resolution
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What’s the biggest reason Gen Z has such crippling mental health issues?
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