Maybe it's because with corporate Capitalism, we've given up all our freedoms for comfort and safety. Comfort and safety are nice and all, but when we are no longer free to exist in reality, with other people, we get depressed.
Our technological overlords (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Epic Games) have engineered digital life for young people to be as "engaging" as possible for their own benefit. We spread out to the suburbs and there's no where to go without the automobile overlords. Privatization of everything means teens have no where to go, except to buy shit at the mall. And who wants to spend life buying shit? The life of distraction and engagement makes companies billions of dollars, forces people to conform to their frameworks (because guess what, everyone else is doing it, and if you don't join in you're even more bored and lonely than everyone else), and kills all freedom.
Life in the west is materially very comfortable. But the premise of playing in real life, of hanging out, isn't cool because no teen is doing that. They're trapped by potent digital media wasting all their time. Life is somehow more boring than it used to be. Maybe because seeing crazy videos or playing super fun video games makes everything else seem boring. It makes reality seem boring.
We're losing our freedom to giant corporations. I think Capitalism is a good system, but corporate Capitalism kills freedom. Oppression by Corporatocracy is killing people.
Our technological overlords (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Epic Games) have engineered digital life for young people to be as "engaging" as possible for their own benefit. We spread out to the suburbs and there's no where to go without the automobile overlords. Privatization of everything means teens have no where to go, except to buy shit at the mall. And who wants to spend life buying shit? The life of distraction and engagement makes companies billions of dollars, forces people to conform to their frameworks (because guess what, everyone else is doing it, and if you don't join in you're even more bored and lonely than everyone else), and kills all freedom.
Life in the west is materially very comfortable. But the premise of playing in real life, of hanging out, isn't cool because no teen is doing that. They're trapped by potent digital media wasting all their time. Life is somehow more boring than it used to be. Maybe because seeing crazy videos or playing super fun video games makes everything else seem boring. It makes reality seem boring.
We're losing our freedom to giant corporations. I think Capitalism is a good system, but corporate Capitalism kills freedom. Oppression by Corporatocracy is killing people.