The depressed generation or the anesthetized generation?

In these times that occupy us, it is normal to fall into speculation (more or less correct) about the situation of youth. I found it very interesting this article published in The country. The phrase is great, but I seriously doubt that it is exactly depression the subject that occupies us. Although I have three festivals left as a young man, I include myself in the group, and I share my vision and personal reflection on the matter without further ado.

A generation marked by carefree

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 problems of the world 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 at our doorstep as an entity in space, which only exists on the news. "The poor have no country," someone said two centuries ago, you still have to read more. Today's youth grew up based on some dogmas that have turned out to be milongas: "study and you will work", "mine", "with effort everything will turn out well"...

The formation (especially post-university) it's just a business one of the usual ones to profit off the hopes of a youth that has lost their time and the money that mom and dad (or students working afternoons / nights) earned to pay for it.

Youth depression or anesthetized generation?

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 was born, nothing else. There is a latent anxiety due to the fear of a future that, already today, has normalized working for free, sharing a flat, not being able to leaving the parents' apartment, not being able to plan to start a family or continue making a bottle (to say something less serious) until 40. The journey to that future is inhospitable. There will always be singing morning fans of voluntarism and other nonsense that will say "if you want, you can." But if there are no conditions to be able, you are not going to be able to fucking shit.

Jordan Belfort, the yuppies, the big businessmen who worked long hours (of "work", according to the legend that claims exalt people who have normalized speculation at the expense of anyone and increased surplus value at the expense of salaries). Those were the examples of anxiety. With his coke, his amphetamines and her things. An anxiety about having, supposedly, a lot of work.

Not today. Today there is a youth anxious not to be able to do anything. Or for doing too many things and none of them go well.

The fear of the future. To a future too near.

Winking at that great movie that was Mondays in the sun, we could say that we are spending the best of our life in the sun. But alluding to another great series from now, the worst thing is that Winter is coming.