![]() ![]() South Park has remodeled Cartman after the image of the doomscrolling, internally distraught Gen-Zer, and I can’t help but see myself and my peers in him. ![]() We accept one or two posts as “news” and information we see online as “facts,” usually without further research. We have grown up comfortable indoors, isolated with the computer, console, or TV, and reliant upon Instagram and disembodied voices in place of social interaction. The crippling anxieties of Gen-Z and younger millennials are everywhere apparent we have a mental-health epidemic with a higher generational suicide risk, which have variously been attributed to awareness of worldly chaos, the COVID-19 pandemic, and chronic onlineness. Like the rest of my generation, I have been anxious and apprehensive for as long as I can recall. ![]()
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