There is a lot more interest, and much more written about, younger people, than when I was young myself. I recall very little being said about the habits of the young, save for a kind of bookended commentary connected with the 'Sixties Revolution,' of which we were apparently the lucky beneficiaries. There was a continuation of sorts with the '60's narrative about fashion, music and various forms of 'liberation', but precious little about the affect of so much change on the growing mind.

Today, it is rare for any news publication to not have a story about the young and social media, the young and drugs, the young and AI, the young and mental illness and so on and so forth. I do not remark on this with any envy, for it seems to be that entirely too much is being said, far too much. A weight is being placed on young shoulders that should not be, a pathologizing of a generation.

That doesn't mean that there aren't any problems that have resulted from technological and social change - of course there are - but that the constant drumbeat of largely bad news is a problem in itself, generating anxiety and victimhood upon an already media-saturated cohort.

Let's assume that there is a lot of resilience about and go about quietly attending to things that we see as detrimental or dangerous. That doesn't get many likes, I know, but it may head off a few problems.