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There might be a chicken and egg element to this, where young people are more likely to be completely checked out of society because they feel like they have no hope of a decent future, so they indulge in hedonism.
I don't doubt that has some part to do with it.
But you also can't sit around crying "woe is me" your entire life just because of circumstances beyond your control. You can only play with the cards you are dealt and try to make the best hand of them.
If you want to just waste away consuming porn, beer, and pot because you don't see the point in trying when its this bad, well you aren't really wrong. But you also don't get to ask for sympathy either.
Zoomers have straight up told me that easy porn is one of the worst things about growing up when they did. But what are you going to do as a pubescent kid, not watch HD porn available in a few clicks?
Porn especially is a difficult problem, because people's desire for it is older than civilization and they will always seek it out in some form. Its basic instinct and no amount of moralizing will ever truly curb it.
So the ease of access to it is the same root as the obesity problem. Normal human desires made too easy to achieve through the quality of life presented by modern society. And much like obesity, it can really only be defeated by restraint and discipline.
But, unlike food, nobody wants to talk to their kids about titties and masturbation (for good reason) so they are mostly left on their own to swim in it. And it really ruins them before they are even old enough to recognize it.
Literally hardwired into us. Our whole reason for existing (apparently) is to have kids and further the species.
I agree, making it taboo and not talking about it is part of the problem.
People get so weird over a naked body.
It could be curbed pretty sharply by dealing with the companies that give it away for free, like mindgeek.
You must be a carpenter you hit the nail on the head so perfectly.
Most people don't even get to talk to their kids about moderating food intake. It's often not that they don't want to, it's just that it's not a topic the kids want to engage in. It's boring. It involves responsibility, being future-conscious, etc. But it's worth the discomfort on both ends, at least that's what I've found.
I was poisoned with freon at work, denied help, likely ended up with kidney damage. No one would take the case because "it wasnt enough money".
Now ive been suffering from low phosphorous and high parathryoid hormone for at least the last 5 years, likely from the kidney damage.
You dont know what its like broseph, when you just have no energy to get out of bed or even care anymore.
About all I can do is feel sorry for myself and I hate it.
Im ready for death.
From my experience anyway, nothing ever goes the way I planned it, Guess im just a loser like that.
I dont need fancy cars and a big house to be happy, i just wanted a little piece of property to call my own and to live my life peacefully.
I wasnt even allowed to have that. And at this point, I have to be realistic and assume its never going to happen.
A reality that is almost guaranteed for the younger generations and again all by design.
How do you think well get a world where "we have no property and no privacy".
https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/welcome-to-2030-i-own-nothing-have-no-privacy-and-life-has-never-been-better-ee2eed62f710
You really want to put the blame all on the individual.
Spoken like a true boomer I guess.
My friend, you've got a unique situation where the world itself fucked you in a way where you cannot physically overcome the trials of life. Almost anyone would be sympathetic to that.
That is a mile difference from someone who has all the physical capabilities to push past the hellscape that is our current generation, but chooses not to because its either too hard or hedonism is more appealing.