A Boring Dystopia

Young people today in Western nations are going to die in the trenches of tomorrow, I'd be unhappy if I were them too.

And until then, there's the economic depression we've been living through for decades now, with continuous unending cuts to everything, from healthcare to education, wage spending power to prospects of advancement.

And let's not forget that is tied directly to the hugely widening gap between the rich ruling class and the rest of us, which many are finally starting to notice, even though the media - owned by the rich - do their best to hide their actions through propaganda, and hiding/twisting news that doesn't follow their narrative, every day.

The only thing that isn't in decline is the pricetag. Those are flying up and up on everything. We can barely afford water any more.

Anyway, yeah. Young people are aware of their incredibly bleak future, and they're not as repressed as previous generations either.

They're emotionally intelligent enough to understand and share their feelings with their peers, something previous generations were too deeply repressed to do (instead those generations were taught unhealthy mental coping strategies - to have a stiff upper lip, keep your problems to yourself, just tell everyone you're doing fine when asked, etc).

So, they're quite openly vocal about how little hope there is. A fool's hope, I suppose.