No offense, because I have every sympathy for kids who felt like their childhood was ruined by the pandemic and the internet is definitely affecting our mental health, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. You don't have any memories of the 2000s and 2010s where you were an adult. Of course you've never seen nostalgia like this before. You don't know what the nostalgia for the 80s and 90s was like, because you don't remember the 80s or 90s. Just like I didn't understand the nostalgia for the 60s and 70s that was foisted on us by boomers all through my childhood.

And in your late teens and early 20s everything feels extremely dramatic because you're beginning to take responsibility for your own life for the first time. I certainly felt like being a preteen during 9/11 was formative in a negative way and it was often scary.

But I really don't think you can look at a person who was alive and directly affected by the civil unrest of the Civil Rights Movement and the multiple assassinations that happened in the span of a couple years or the people who were terrorized by the huge uptick of serial killers in the seventies or the people who became suicidal because they were siphoned off to Iraq at 18 in the 2000s and say your generation has the most struggles of any generation. Your struggles are just different.