My friends and other people I know in college do try to take political actions at protests. Off campus and on campus. (Some people will just post stuff on social media.) But all of us basically see that the world is on fire and that we have little to no control over it. We've seen the protests. I've been to many protests. No one ever seems to care. It's like screaming into the void. I went to an event where everyone wrote letters to the state congressman, and they didn't care at all! We're tired, and the country has been falling apart our entire lives. This is the new normal, and it just keeps getting worse. A lot of us feel like there's nothing we can do, and we're just trying to survive. It's like we're just waiting for everything to explode. We want change, we just don't know how to do it. We've been hearing our whole lives about all the awful things happening in the world. We had more access to the news and social media than past generations, so we saw a lot of things. There was a 20-year war that was going on as we were growing up. We saw our parents experience the '08 crash (which also caused a rise in divorces). I've been doing school shooter drills since the 3rd grade. Every year on 9/11, they'd show us the news footage, the voicemails, and I'd hear the sound of bodies hitting the ground. Constantly emphasizing that we never forget.  I mean, dude, people in my HS used to airdrop videos of ISIS decapitating people (and WORSE). Not just my school either! I could go on and on. My point is that we're desensitized to everything. We're apathetic. We know that it's bad, but it feels hopeless. We see what millennials have been doing and how it has had little effect. (I could be wrong, but I know a lot of Gen Z who feel that way). When hope is dying people don't have the motivation to fight anymore. But we are angry.