Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health
by barganzo on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:26PM
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Let’s take a look.
1. An undergraduate degree now costs $80,000-300,000 a pop, and you have to sign up at age 18, because your experience will be utterly horrible if you delay even one year.
2. Everything is amplified. Have a seizure at McDonalds? You’re going to be the next meme on TikTok.
3. Nothing seems to have any value anymore. If you can’t beat or bang your wife whenever you want, because you don’t own her anymore, why marry her? [0] If you can’t whip your children, why have them? [0] If all your age-eligible potential dates are the traumatized children of divorce, what are you going to do, ghost them?
If you can’t put Christmas decorations on your house because of the HOA, why buy it? If any fictional story, joke or scenario you write up online can be used to tar and feather you years down the line when politics has shifted, why have an online presence at all? If you can’t post art online without being accused of using an AI art generator, or having it scraped to fluff up some creep’s training set, why share it with anyone? If consuming art or food or video games is now a social misdemeanor, why not just eat Soylent for every meal?
4. Nobody hangs out with anybody new anymore. The exponential growth in smartphone sales and online games/networks/toys/chats has a direct correspondence to an exponential decline in new face-to-face meetings among anyone outside of college or high school. Great work, Silicon Valley! You liquidated everyone’s intimacy and covered it into shitty McMansions in Woodside and Model X Plaids for your ex-trophy wives and 12 children who all hate your guts.
5. Nothing that is actually risky is priced properly:
(a) Gay people can’t donate blood because of the AIDS panic 40 years ago. Trans and gay people have had their identities (a pretty low-cost aspect of society) transformed into the equivalent of a societal war crime or some kind of pedophilia status indicator.
(b) If you have sex out of wedlock, and you get unlucky, you could lose 25-50% of your income for the next 20 years, without ever getting to see your child.
(c) If you have sex IN wedlock, and your partner at any point decides they don’t like you anymore, or like someone else a whole lot more, they are entitled to take 50% of your present net worth, plus 25-70% of your theoretical maximum attainable income for the next 20-30 years, and you may never see your child again.
(d) Any moronic child with $500, a Twitter account and a driver’s license can buy an AR-15 and murder your entire friend/family/church group, and Fox News will celebrate them, as long as they’re white-passing.
6. There is nothing to look forward to. Hooray, cars in 20 years will all be EVs. Russia and China will still be autocracies. Drugs will mostly still be pointlessly and profitably criminalized. Technology will get better and better, the Applesung M32 will be a full AR/VR replacement for your eyeball that lets you escape to a VR Turks and Caicos or a VR porn set anytime you want. Flying cars will arrive, and they will only be available to billionaires. Some clown will fly to Mars with a colonist crew and start an interplanetary war. We’ll figure out more about our history as apes, and more and more countries will make up stories that they were the “cradle of mankind” for nationalistic clout. No individual will have the power to improve the world on their own, no artist’s style will truly be their own anymore.
If you’re looking forward to the future, you probably should take less Adderall and divest from GME.
Source: boomers, millenials and Gen X don’t need to be spoonfed context for the world they created.
[0] I don’t think either of these activities are “good” or worthwhile but there are doubtless some double-digit % of the population that is mad they’re no longer legal.
1. An undergraduate degree now costs $80,000-300,000 a pop, and you have to sign up at age 18, because your experience will be utterly horrible if you delay even one year.
2. Everything is amplified. Have a seizure at McDonalds? You’re going to be the next meme on TikTok.
3. Nothing seems to have any value anymore. If you can’t beat or bang your wife whenever you want, because you don’t own her anymore, why marry her? [0] If you can’t whip your children, why have them? [0] If all your age-eligible potential dates are the traumatized children of divorce, what are you going to do, ghost them?
If you can’t put Christmas decorations on your house because of the HOA, why buy it? If any fictional story, joke or scenario you write up online can be used to tar and feather you years down the line when politics has shifted, why have an online presence at all? If you can’t post art online without being accused of using an AI art generator, or having it scraped to fluff up some creep’s training set, why share it with anyone? If consuming art or food or video games is now a social misdemeanor, why not just eat Soylent for every meal?
4. Nobody hangs out with anybody new anymore. The exponential growth in smartphone sales and online games/networks/toys/chats has a direct correspondence to an exponential decline in new face-to-face meetings among anyone outside of college or high school. Great work, Silicon Valley! You liquidated everyone’s intimacy and covered it into shitty McMansions in Woodside and Model X Plaids for your ex-trophy wives and 12 children who all hate your guts.
5. Nothing that is actually risky is priced properly:
(a) Gay people can’t donate blood because of the AIDS panic 40 years ago. Trans and gay people have had their identities (a pretty low-cost aspect of society) transformed into the equivalent of a societal war crime or some kind of pedophilia status indicator.
(b) If you have sex out of wedlock, and you get unlucky, you could lose 25-50% of your income for the next 20 years, without ever getting to see your child.
(c) If you have sex IN wedlock, and your partner at any point decides they don’t like you anymore, or like someone else a whole lot more, they are entitled to take 50% of your present net worth, plus 25-70% of your theoretical maximum attainable income for the next 20-30 years, and you may never see your child again.
(d) Any moronic child with $500, a Twitter account and a driver’s license can buy an AR-15 and murder your entire friend/family/church group, and Fox News will celebrate them, as long as they’re white-passing.
6. There is nothing to look forward to. Hooray, cars in 20 years will all be EVs. Russia and China will still be autocracies. Drugs will mostly still be pointlessly and profitably criminalized. Technology will get better and better, the Applesung M32 will be a full AR/VR replacement for your eyeball that lets you escape to a VR Turks and Caicos or a VR porn set anytime you want. Flying cars will arrive, and they will only be available to billionaires. Some clown will fly to Mars with a colonist crew and start an interplanetary war. We’ll figure out more about our history as apes, and more and more countries will make up stories that they were the “cradle of mankind” for nationalistic clout. No individual will have the power to improve the world on their own, no artist’s style will truly be their own anymore.
If you’re looking forward to the future, you probably should take less Adderall and divest from GME.
Source: boomers, millenials and Gen X don’t need to be spoonfed context for the world they created.
[0] I don’t think either of these activities are “good” or worthwhile but there are doubtless some double-digit % of the population that is mad they’re no longer legal.