Anyone that gets home after a workday and doesn't need to melt into their sofa are legit dickheads. Also isn't it great that you're so God dammed good-looking? Use your pretty power and make some social change, stop hoarding it with you TikToks and Snapchats. Even my long term partner doesn't find me attractive.
Also for fucks sales, can I pay a FPS game without getting headshot on the very same frame that I enter the room, pretty please. I don't have the energy to do headshot training so I can make middle aged gamers feel slow and dumb when they dare enter multiplayer. I can only play LoL with friends, because some energetic teenager knows all the hotkeys and can kill me before my first attack.
Don't get me started on their anime. One Punch Man... that's all he does? Wow, you really broke a sweat in the planning room on that one. JoJo... more like PooPoo. Cowboy Bebob and Fullmetal Alchemist are still the standards that new anime has yet to surpass.
Lastly, I just fucking hate how keen they are. Oh so you went the gym 4x this week and you're nearly done with The Conquest of Bread? Don't make me feel bad for binge rewatching Bojack Horseman in my underwear all weekend.
For these reasons and more, I suggest that we ban all users between 16-29.
I'm not going to make a judgement on whether or not there are MORE young people fucked up by capitalism, but I do feel very confident saying that people understand the effects of capitalism on mental health these days, and there is more open conversation about mental health. Even when I was in high school, and I'm like the cusp of millenial/gen z so not super long ago, no one talked about mental health, and they sure as hell never talked about capitalism or even just socioeconomics. The most we got was oh you might get stressed out sometimes, just take a break, maybe buy a stress ball. I had like one friend who I could openly talk about depression with, and even then we really just understood our depression as individual. I wish I had encountered anticapitalist politics back then, it would've saved me from years of confusion and anger. My mom wouldn't allow me to see a therapist. Of course now its all, oh I think therapy is really good, I'm glad you started seeing one, as if she doesn't remember literally yelling at each other about whether I should be able to see a therapist.
My point being, there might be a bias occurring. It sure seems like more young people have mental health issues due to capitalism these days, but those people also have the words and the ability to talk about these things in ways even just a couple years before them kids didn't easily have.
Of course in reality kids probably are more fucked up due to capitalism. I was in school during the Obama years, and even though it was post-2008 there still was a sense of optimism, that we did have a future, unlike today especially after COVID. Also we really only had Facebook. Twitter and Instagram were popular by the end of my high school years but they had yet to overtake Facebook and a lot of people still didn't really use them. Now there's all kinds of social media and we all know the effect that can have on mental health.
Probably both these things happening simultaneously. There probably are more kids fucked up by capitalism, but those more kids are also able to talk about these things in ways that previous generations weren't.
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Im about the same era as you and I feel like there was still alot of discussion about mental health so im wondering if its geographic and material reasons rather than just generations
It might've been geographic. Idk. If that was your experience I'm not doubting it lol, it just does feel to me that talking about mental health has become much more mainstream since I was in school where my mom will even talk about the importance of mental health. I'm sure it was happening back then also, just feels like it was not as widespread, more happening in specific spaces.
yeah im definitely not denying your personal experience either! I just feel different about a similar time period as a late millenial/super early Z (97) btw (it might not even be geographical it was just a guess!)