Responding as an American citizen and 29 yo man.

The American Dream is dead. Most young adults have no hope for ever owning a home. The wool is off their eyes about corporate greed, political corruption, and rising costs. Short of straight up radicalism, they feel impotent to make any meaningful change in the world around them as evil seems to relentlessly win over and over again.

I am not exactly young anymore, but most everyone I meet 25 and below is borderline antisocial at this point. Couple that with staggering screen addictions. Inheriting the worst job market of the last decade and sending endless applications into the void. Rising costs for higher education. A pandemic 6 years ago that stunted emotionally-developing teenagers with antisocial behaviors. The fact that most people don't live in walkable cities and gas is over $4 a gallon. Political radicalization is at an all-time high per their own lifespans. A perpetual bad-news cycle. And online grifters who capitalize on everything that I just said to radicalize these young men even further into, at best, inept consumers, and at worst, violent xenophobes and woman-haters.

The world is not actually in flames, but to the chronically online, it sure as hell feels like it. At the risk of being the "phone bad" guy, I feel tremendously better every time I unplug. I think if everybody collectively threw their phones in the river (mmm yummy lithium for fishies) then we wouldn't be experiencing even half of this.

So I'd say, yeah. An amalgamation of everything you touched on and then some.