/lit/ - Literature

>>16243245
I don't slaving away for 12 hours every day in Ford's car factory, or breaking your back in the fields for your feudal lord, would make one any happier than consooming social media for the same amount of time. Both activities are soulless and passive, they drain away at your spirit.
You have to turn to something to cope with the tedium: whether it's drinking until you get an ulcer, or shitposting about depression under 3 layers of irony, I think the root cause is the same, people are alienated from genuine human relationships. We either replaced humans with material goods, or see humans as things, and aren't able to connect with each other, but the end result is the same. All throughout history teens have been angsty, self-loathing and self-absorbed, but zoomers took those traits to new heights. The melancholy and loneliness of wealth, decadence and being "useless men" used to be the privilege of the rich, but now has become the plague of the common man.