This article, in all its candor and systemic brutality, gives you pretty
good idea:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/magazine/why-are-more-american-teenagers-than-ever-suffering-from-severe-anxiety.html
The interesting point of this article is that it focuses on the
experience of psychic dissociation, registered as "anxiety," that now
apparently afflicts over 40% of American teenagers. Small wonder, given
that their utopian society is now explicitly faced with its dystopian
contradiction. However the same article concludes with maybe the most
willfully stupid thing I have ever read - as though everything were
fine, no, isn't that true, come on, get with it?
"[Anxiety] has an evolutionary purpose, after all; it helps us detect
and avoid potentially dangerous situations. Highly anxious people,
though, have an overactive fight-or-flight response that perceives
threats where there often are none."
Right, yeah, good luck in the twenty-first century.
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