uses kids to mock them, if it was intentional. Maybe the kids were just doing their own thing.

Anyway, there's new studies that show that Generation Z is the unhappiest generation and people are all figuring out why could that be? Why is Gen Z the unhappiest? What could possibly cause such a thing?

I don't know. Could it be when they look at the news it says that the climate's out of control and going to fry them all and there's no point in having children because they're all going to be dead in a hellscape of hotness? Might be that. Could be that they're being told they're going to lose their democracy and that Hitler has just reincarnated into something orange and terrible. Could be that. Could be that. Neither of those things bother me because I don't think they're real.

How about the confusing gender roles? Don't you think it would cause you a little mental distress if you could sort of pick your own gender? I don't remember ever having a conversation about it. That was sort of just a given. All right, you're a boy. Got it. And never really needed to just have a conversation about it again. But imagine if you were born into a world where people were just choosing their genders. You know, I think I'm going to go a different way from now on. I think I'm the other thing.

I would think that given that our sexual roles are so baked into civilization and our genes on some level, that anytime you add any uncertainty into that world, that's got to be bad for your mental health.

How about hormone disruptions? How about that? We've got all kinds of stuff in the environment. We've got men's testosterone dropping. And we know testosterone makes men happy if they've got the right amount. It makes them unhappy if they've got the wrong amount. And we know they've got the wrong amount. And then some number of women are on chemical birth control that changes their hormonal balance. Do you think that has any impact? Well, I'm no doctor, but probably.

How about the fact that it's the first time in American history kids don't think they could make enough money to do things like have a family? Now I don't know if that's really the case, but it sure looks like it. You can see why they would think it.

What about social media and the phone? Of course social media and the phone are very bad for your mental health. What about the fact that now that we have such connectivity, we don't just worry about the problems that are local to us, like what's happening in your town and what's happening in your family. Now you get to worry about all the problems in the world. You get to worry about the poor Ukrainians. You get to worry about the poor people in Gaza, the poor people in Israel. You get to worry about everybody all the time. Would that make you mentally unhealthy? Yes, it would. Yes, it would.

So I would say it's the le