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Why?
Oh FFS. Do you really not know?
This, just like so many other things in our current society, is simply a direct result of the fact that over the last few decades, the system as a whole has shifted sway from the well-being of the many and toward the privilege of the wealthy and powerful few.
Put bluntly, younger people aren’t partying (or having children, or buying homes, or planning careers, or supporting establishment political parties, or even going outside much) because the earlier generations have turned the US into a toxic shithole run by and for lying, greedy assholes, so the younger people see no reason to plan or hope and no opportunity to even really look up from their day-to-day gig economy scramble just to fucking survive and the handful of things they can afford to do to wind down from that scramble.
You want to do something about it? Stop raining shit down on them. Tax the fucking billionaires, shut down the student loan opportunists and the health insurance opportunists and the housing opportunists and all the other pieces of shit enjoying government-enabled privilege on the backs of the common people, and do what you can to turn the US back into a place where ordinary people vould have some hope, instead of just facing a life of underpaid drudgery just so that some fucking billionaire who owns a stable of politicians can buy more mansions and a bigger yacht.
And if you can’t be bothered to di that, then you’re just going to have to accept the fact that the people on whom you’re raining down shit are increasingly hopeless, and that has consequences.
What I miss is the lack of just hanging out… because everyone’s always super busy so we can’t just catch up and do nothing, it has to be efficient. Or also just seeing parties and thinking about going but then everyone else somehow just stopped because clubs became so crazy expensive.
And then the whole housing situation also doesn’t really make it any better. What I saw is that formerly interesting places with an amazing variety of alternative subcultures have grown into terribly sterile, corporate places, most of the USA feels like that to me (although admittedly I haven’t spent much time there) and e.g. London and Amsterdam feel the same.
Everyone has to portray themeselves within the bounds of “corporately acceptable” for so much of their fucking time that it becomes easier to just stop context switching and let those parts of yourself atrophy.
Partying in my youth was the best part of being young. Drugs and alcohol were a great social lubricant and I had a lot of wonderful experiences. I’m sad for young people today.
