What are you optimistic about?
One of the stranger things I observe from people who purport to care about the mental health of the younger generations is an overall "doomer" outlook on life and society. If you truly cared about Gen Z’s mental health you would stop declaring this current reality a late stage capitalistic hellscape from which there is no escape and instead, give the kids hope and reason to be optimistic about their future.
Doom sells much in the same way that “if it bleeds it leads” but if you’re in the media, you owe it to these kids to put things in perspective, not lead them to believe it’s pointless to try. This kind of nihilism is an irresponsible projection of your own existential crisis—and I say this only because I’ve been there—it’s called “being in your 20s.” If you’re still doing this after 30, grow up.
