This is probably reaching, but to me this reads as a generational screed. There's an entire generation of young people (mostly Generation-Y) who are discontent. They were promised a future filled with promise and hope and, despite these promised and despite being ambitions, have found their opportunities severely curtailed. They're now being told to be happier with less than what previous generations have, after having been raised to expect to do better (in the manner of previous generations).
This generation is also far more medicated than its predecessors; the discontent and ennui of life is being treated with psychoactive medications. If the members of this generation aren't happy, it's blamed on chemicals, not on the world around them. The unhappy are medicated into a state of numbness because to treat the underlying problem (inequities in society) would require acknowledging that these problems exist.
So what's this result in? People in this generation stop caring about ambition, stop caring about doing better, and stop caring about doing anything else but sate their own transitory entertainment needs. Except that this isn't really a solution, and they need to break free of this trap if they're ever going to have a hope of taking things back (rather than ending up as a nouveau lost generation).
However, I'm probably wrong. It's probably about a quarter-life crisis or something.
This is probably reaching, but to me this reads as a generational screed. There's an entire generation of young people (mostly Generation-Y) who are discontent. They were promised a future filled with promise and hope and, despite these promised and despite being ambitions, have found their opportunities severely curtailed. They're now being told to be happier with less than what previous generations have, after having been raised to expect to do better (in the manner of previous generations).
This generation is also far more medicated than its predecessors; the discontent and ennui of life is being treated with psychoactive medications. If the members of this generation aren't happy, it's blamed on chemicals, not on the world around them. The unhappy are medicated into a state of numbness because to treat the underlying problem (inequities in society) would require acknowledging that these problems exist.
So what's this result in? People in this generation stop caring about ambition, stop caring about doing better, and stop caring about doing anything else but sate their own transitory entertainment needs. Except that this isn't really a solution, and they need to break free of this trap if they're ever going to have a hope of taking things back (rather than ending up as a nouveau lost generation).
However, I'm probably wrong. It's probably about a quarter-life crisis or something.