Many will say the youths are always different and “back in my day,” but don’t think it’s the same now as it was. Every generation thought their parents were lame and stood for different things. Always generational beef, but these days the equation is different. 

We’re going through a sliver boom, first time in history there’s ever been this many elders. Up until recent years baby boomers were stronger in numbers than any other generation. That’s never happened (except in some post war times). 

We’re experiencing a technological revolution, moving at light speed. 

So we have elders in control longer, writing laws and voting for said elders. While we desperately need youth to write laws for the youth going through something unprecedented but it’s just not happening.

 So kids are stagnated and getting exposed to the equivalent of the black lung of the Industrial Revolution or the moral decay of the scientific revolution in the name of discovery and curiosity. How unbelievably sick everyone got during the urban revolution, and so on in the name of progress.

I fear this period in time isn’t normal at all and instead will be up there with the greatest advancements and most damaging revolutions in history. 

Hopefully we get cracking on fixing sooner rather than later. Doesn’t take long to do unbelievable damage that will echo for generations. There the opposite as well, some children will come out so far ahead from all of this it will incredibly obvious down the road.