My theory that 90% of the modern problems can be traced back to: there’s too many people.
When older generations seem to expect many things to be much easier or straight forward, they seem to be not taking into account the current scale of the world. Either because they don’t understand to what extent low-hanging fruit has been eaten up, or because they don’t see how narratives have evolved after being told literally a million times.
This reminds me, the progress from modernism to post-modernism and Hypermodernism, can all be answered as well by “too many people”. It all tries to answer the question: what happens to stories when they have been told a hundred, a thousand and a million times?
Also, young people on the other hand tend to be desensitised, highly cynical and at the same time seem to think that the fault for the current state of affairs lies with specific people. Like it was the previous generation who fucked up, but we could have done better, we could have made socialism work. I believe this is an over simplification of the world, and not really understanding the scale of the coordination problems when we’re so many people.