Those are positive trends. However, I believe the teenage suicide rate has gone up significantly over the last couple of decades.
The kids today are IMO a bit more tame than say 10~15 yrs ago but it comes off as Lazy and detached They appear to be overly non-chalant and entitled Things will "just work out for them" and if it don't . . . meh someone will help me mentality Rocket River
The predictable outcome of the summer of love and the experimental 60's was the 70's going as hard as you possibly could. There's a reason that heroin-skinny was the craze. Then smoking peaked in 1982. People were just batshit crazy at that time. Something else that nobody talks about is the concentration of lead children's blood. Know when lead poisoning in the USA peaked? 1960s and 70s. Prime childhood and formative years for Boomers. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 Know what lead poisoning leads to? Antisocial and risk-taking behavior.
I used to get chronic migraines, up until I was 13 or so, which was right around the time the lead content nosedived to it's lowest point. We could never figure it out but this may be why.
Okay. You don't have to watch but it is reminiscent of many of your posts on the boards. Since you're living it, you don't have to watch at all.
I mean that post 2012-14 uptick lines up perfectly with declining test scores, as well as the rough timeline of the 50% threshold being surpassed for teens getting smartphones + access to social media. It also lines up the peak and decline US life expectancy. The 2000's and early 2010's just might have been the greatest version of American society that will have ever existed. You see that there boys? Thats americas peak. And now it's over. MAYBE
