The Depressed Generation Or The Anesthetized Generation?
In these times that concern us, it is normal to fall into speculations (more or less accurate) about the situation of youth. I found this article published in The country. The phrase is great, but I have serious doubts that it is exactly depression the topic at hand. Although I, as a young man, have three festivals left, I include myself in the group, and I share with you without further pretensions my vision and personal reflection on the matter.
The generation of Happy childhood the carefree adolescence the studious youth Living without many problems (I am generalizing), in an overprotected environment in which the world’s problems were placed in a third world that seemed very far away. Even today we refer to Africa when we talk about poverty, understanding the continent that we have at our doors as an entity in space, which only exists in the news. “The poor have no country,” someone said two centuries ago, maybe you have to read more. Today’s youth grew up based on dogmas that have turned out to be milongas: “study and you will work”, “do what is mine”, “with effort everything will turn out well”…
The formation (especially post-university) It’s nothing more than a business the usual ones to profit at the expense of the hopes of a youth that has lost their time and the money that mom and dad (or students working in the afternoons/nights) earned to pay for it.
There is no sadness. People She is not depressed in the strict sense of the word People are anesthetized , What is different. An anesthetized generation has been born, nothing else. There is a latent anxiety due to the fear of a future that, today, has normalized working for free, sharing an apartment, not being able to leave the parents’ apartment, not being able to plan to start a family or continue drinking (to say something less serious) until the 40s. The journey towards that future appears inhospitable. There will always be cantamañanas fans of voluntarism and other nonsense who will say “if you want, you can.” But if there are no conditions to be able to, you’re not going to be able to fucking do anything.
Jordan Belfort, the yuppies, the great businessmen who put in long hours (of “work”, according to the legend that seeks to elevate people who have normalized speculation at the expense of anyone and the increase in surplus value at the expense of salaries). Those were the examples of anxiety. With his coke, his amphetamines and his things. An anxiety about having, supposedly, a lot of work.
Not today. Today there is a youth anxious about not being able to do anything Or for doing too many things and none of them turning out well.
The fear of the future. To a future that is too near.
Winking at that great movie that was Mondays in the sun, We could say that we are spending the best of our lives in the sun. But alluding to another great series now, the worst thing is that Winter is coming
