Ultimately I think it's a matter of who you associate with. Yes there's a growing number of youths that receive less and less guidance on having drive for more learning and passions.

After modern city life was established as a lifestyle, suddenly you had generations that were born with increasing convenience. Many jobs were not labour intensive but more skill based, everyone's kids could go to school, services like the hospital and the post office where close and readily available etc. Things kept getting more convenient with increasing industrialization and in the process also we conquered some labour rights such as the 8 hour workday and 5 day work week.

We reached a golden apex sometime in the 60s to 70s. Back then the west still had to compete with the reality of life under socialism. Interestingly this pushed the local rich class to afford everyone else more easy access to public services, better wages and cheaper prices. Life could have been the same today with some small but fundamental changes like for instance public ownership of land and services.

But we're not far from the apex. Life has kept getting worse. We work more, we are forced to spend more just to survive and and up with even less or even in dept than previous generations did. That's in spite of total production rising. The percentage of what part of it ends in the worker's pocket is worse.

So it's not to wonder that societal bonds have started collapsing. More pele have mental illness than ever because human life was not meant to be like this. We're used of getting attention from our parents, having time to ascociste with our extended relative circle, spending time with friends, having lots of free time and spending time in nature. We accepted leaving villages, getting away from nature and our close communities, this way making discounts in some fundamental values of human community, with the goal of organizing our production better.

But in the process we as a collective society let many things slip. Our labour/health/service access rights are worse than they were 40 years ago, and so is our purchasing power. It's no wonder then many peole and up with psychological issues. And what are our avenues of expression these days? Posting on social media that just want to milk our content for profit and imitating the consumerism of others. This is what gets promoted and so this is what we do. It's a vicious cycle that the system had crested.

Thankfully there's a growing number of youths that see the issues in the system's function and want to rebel. It might happen in our lifetime if we're lucky. But should we going to leave it up to luck?