Freya India

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The Rest Is Politics · Struggling or Snowflakes? The Gen Z Mental Health Story · 21 May 2026 podcast

But I think what I changed my mind on writing the book was that there's actually so much context to this.

There's so many explanations as to why we would be less resilient

and more socially anxious and unsure of ourselves.

And I think actually having that context is much more likely to change our behavior and make us feel more confident than it is to say, you know, you're just a snowflake.

Yeah, I think social media is a huge part of it.

My basic argument is that

It's a lot of different things.

I think that we as a generation had a very unstable foundation in many ways.

A lot of us had unstable families.

We didn't know our neighbors.

We didn't have a sense of community.

We're much less religious.

And so we have less sources of belonging and security and stability in our lives.

And then I think what happened is

these social media platforms came along.

And we're sort of adrift at that time with nothing to anchor us.

And what these platforms essentially do is offer a series of simulations and substitutes for these things that we never experienced.

And so something that is quite painful about my generation is that we think a community is something like Instagram.

And we get advice from people on Reddit or we watch YouTube influencers because we haven't actually had the experience of knowing our neighbors and having a community.

And so I think...

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