And I think that this is probably the trend with Gen Z that I just hate the most because it's not

just that Gen Z has retreated inward or failed to fly out of the nest in the first place.

They are turning away from human connection on a whole for something that is far more superficial

and a lot more selfish.

Welcome back to another episode of the Red Cooper Show.

Today I'm excited to talk about one of my favorite subjects.

This is a subject that obviously means a lot to me. We need to talk a little more, because I talk about it all the time, but we need to talk a little more about Gen Z.

I know we always say that Gen Z is a very, you know, unique generation. We have all these struggles and problems. But if we're being honest, what generation

does not have struggles and problems and unique quirks? That's why we have generations. That's why we

are divided in that way. Every generation goes through different things in history. But what I will

say is that Gen Z's struggles are a little bit different because Gen Z's growth coincided with

the growth of technology and social

media in our lives. And our parents and our educators, to be honest, just didn't know how to deal

with that. They didn't really know the impact that that would have on our lives, our adolescents,

and how we were being raised. And it obviously has caused Gen Z a slew of problems, one of the

primary ones being our mental health. That is something that we talk about

in regards to Gen Z constantly. We are so mentally ill. We are depressed. We are anxious. All of these

things, we are gender confused. And we can talk about these diagnoses all day long in Gen Z

self-diagnosing and how that is represented in our society and yada, yada, yada. But I think to get

to the root of the problem, to actually understand Gen Z and what is driving us and driving so many of these problems that make us so

unique, we have to go beyond that, and we have to talk about Gen Z loneliness, because I think

that that is what is actually behind all of this. And of course, if you want ad-free episodes,

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