They were running a programme on the radio this afternoon about 'the youth mental health crisis' -- something like 25% of *all young people* in Britain now being reported as having diagnosable mental health conditions, a significant proportion of that being 'anxiety' -- and I cannot but feel that it seems very obvious that the problem is not the young people. Not, at any rate, unless their genes have been damaged en masse by their parents' poor diets or low-level doses of pesticides or microplastics in the environment while they were growing up, or any of the other hypotheses that have been put forward as to how our civilisation is somehow busy poisoning itself...

If you have a human society with that level of generational breakdown in it, then the conclusion would seem to be that the problem is not with the humans but with the society.