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And that’s what our parents and grandparents said when I belonged to “the youth of today”. And locked myself in my room for whole days playing reprehensible, non-smart products like Wolfenstein 3D, Civilization and Leisure Suit Larry on the Personal Computer. Alternated with hours on the couch watching the cathode ray tube (aka color television), preferably watching the extremely not smart MTV.

I do not mean to claim that the use of social media such as TikTok is completely without harmful side effects. But it is true that the “they grow up in front of the gallows and wheels” about the “youth of today” is truly timeless.

You claim that “youth has proven to be essentially derailed” without providing any substantive evidence.

I argue that if ever a youth should have been significantly derailed, it should be Gen X. They really had every opportunity to go off the rails endlessly, including endless student loans and their parents did not stand in their way in terms of education, what the heck, you are incurring damage from having a good time, fuck around, find out, that idea. And yet, from a social point of view, things have turned out quite well for Gen X. We have certainly not become any less smart. What if things will turn out quite well for today’s youth? Like all youth before them?

One thing is certain, they are facing increasingly pressing problems on an increasingly global scale than we ever faced. And I see global social media playing a key role in this. When I look at how various powers are interfering with social media and trying to gain power over it, I think I am not the only one who thinks this way.