@4Dgifts The Times in the UK surveyed Gen Z and compared the results to a similar survey they did back in 2004. The level of disillusionment has cranked up a notch: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/gen-z-survey-takeaways-what-we-learnt-j8vszr76g

@4Dgifts "Von Neumann himself attributed his generation's success to 'a coincidence of some cultural factors' that produced 'a feeling of extreme insecurity in the individuals, and the necessity to produce the unusual or face extinction'" (The Man from the Future, the Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann, quoting from Stanislaw Ulam's Andventures of a Mathematician)