They want us to be alone and isolated. From Elizabeth Nickson at elizabethnicks.substack.com:
The Atlantic re-published Saturday a long, somewhat clunky analysis by Jean M Twenge, which elaborated on the alienation experienced by late Millennials and GenZ. She charts the piece well. The young are simply not spending physical time with each other. They are online, on Snapchat and the other socials, building their own deeply private worlds. They are not dating, they are not having sex, they are not marrying and they are not joining the work force with any enthusiasm. Too many are settling for get-along-jobs, and staying as long as possible in adolescence, disengaged with life.
This was meant to bolster the elevated left’s argument that Trump makes people too traumatized to be elected again. There is a lot of hysteria building from the ground troops of the left, i.e innumerate, half-educated women – the kind who need Ativan on the regular. But Twenge’s work points to meaning she does not see.
The writer compares her GenX teenaged years, and found her contemporaries ranging through the cities and burbs, driving as soon as possible, and generally having adventures they did not want to tell their parents about. This is no longer the case. Z’s stay home, they date in packs if at all, and they are having much less sex.
Britt Piper, a psychologist who works with the nervous system believes that the current rise in physical and mental illness is directly attributed to our creation of a world that “our nervous systems do not want to live in anymore”. In other words, we have been shocked down to our socks, over and over again, reduced to comfort seeking and safety, which is why Millennials and Z do not want to leave their bedrooms. This is a gross generalization, but Atlantic girl has the numbers, and they ain’t good. We are in survival mode, suffering from chronic illness and searching above all, for anxiety relief.
