🎯 @mattyglesias.bsky.social put this well earlier this year: "A more typically left-wing tic is to express what sounds to me like the symptoms of clinical depression, but frame them as political critiques of the status quo." www.slowboring.com/p/worry-less...

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Same in the months after the financial crash. People have ways of finding happiness in the micro even when things are bad in the macro. This is a good thing (My own experience of lockdown was… mixed)

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Even then like... not everyone hated it all! Hell some people loved the pandemic and had a great time!

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Teenagers especially! There have always been emo teens (and teens with serious depression and other issues), but if you think that the average young person isn't carefree and enjoying themselves recklessly, I refuse to believe you've ever met a young person

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I have become incredibly fed up of this nonsense and the idea of an almost total lack of agency... ...but then I did come of age during 9/11

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