>>39360448The actual reasons are
-smartphones/internet/social media/videogames, people can now spend 8+ hours a day doing absolutely nothing but being on a screen that they're addicted to
-all western goverments (and almost all world goverments) are currently deliberately impoverishing and culturally fracturing their people with inflation, mass immigration, debt and housing crises to appease bankers and warmongers. People are being robbed of high trust, culturally/ethnically homogenous societies, most young people have no idea how different things felt just 20 years ago
-overexposure to mental illness information. If you're constantly watching reels/reading posts about ADHD and all of the ways it can make it more difficult to function like a basic human being or how (normal thing everyone experiences to some degree) is a symptom of depression, gender dysphoria or anything else the more likely you are to meme yourself into actually developing that condition for real. It's like that study where if people are "treated" for potential trauma after a traumatic event they become way more likely to end up suffering from ptsd
