Q Every society has its own pothole. And maybe, you know, teenagers and young people today suffer from a very different thing that maybe Jason, myself, and Freeberg did at our ages. Can you diagnose the level of happiness and sadness and satisfaction, dissatisfaction that this current young generation has relative to other younger generations and where it's different and where it's the same?
A I don't think I'm the only one who can see it. I think expectations, you know, I always tell people expectations are what make you really unhappy and we can't not have any, obviously, but trade your expectations for appreciation. Your life changes, but our expectations now are controlled more by social media, especially that generation, right? So they're seeing people that are incredibly wealthy and thinking that's who I should be and feeling like they don't have anything. I mean, what turned people in the Soviet Union against Soviet Union when they got access to seeing how the Westerners lived, then things changed when they didn't see it. It was okay. So today we compare ourselves to others in ways that are not real because like young girls that go on social media, you've seen all the studies, I'm sure they get depressed because they're comparing the images that aren't even real.
AI assessment note: “they get depressed because they're comparing the images that aren't even real.”