re: #72 The Ghost of a Flea

As somebody with a lot of under-30s connections…no.

Kids are anxious because the bad news is inescapable and they’re incapable of reconciling the contradictions of their lives.

There was bad news when I was growing up:

1) Vietnam war was raging;
2) duck and cover;
3) assassinations, riots, etc.

And the list goes on.

But I do not remember being anxious over any of those.

Because they were distant.

They were not in my face.

My TV watching had some very positive ideas about the future (e.g. Star Trek.)

One emotional state is very much influence by those around us, and by what we feed ourselves.