Something about living in an irreligious, anti-family, anti-man, feminist, secularist hell-hole is making young people sad.
I mean, that's what we live in. And the kids are not exactly "all right."
Young people, the under 30s, are largely to blame for the United States being the least happy they've ever been in the 13-year history of the World Happiness Report.
If you were only to assess those below 30, the U.S. wouldn't even rank in the top 60 happiest countries, the report finds. It's the same reason for the U.S.'s dramatic drop last year from no.15 to no.23. But the continuous decline is concerning, researchers note.
'It is really disheartening to see this, and it links perfectly with the fact that it's the well-being of youth in America that's off a cliff, which is driving the drop in the rankings to a large extent,' [Economics professor] De Neve says.
The World Happiness people think that "inequality" of income and other social factors have to do with the unhappiness in America.
But there is another factor that is shown to be a large driver of unhappiness.
The report focused more this year on the strength of a country's social support and how much people trust in others — a key predictor of personal well-being. In 2023, nearly one in five young adults in the U.S. said they had no one they could count on for support. And in the U.S., the number of people dining alone has increased by 53% since 2003 (the number of shared meals across a week was a new data point in this year's report that correlated to positive well-being, according to De Neve).
'You see an extraordinary increase in dining alone over the past two decades in the U.S.,' he says, which exacerbates people's distrust in others and in society. 'It's the fact that people are increasingly on their own, isolated, their political thinking, their theories around life and society, are no longer tested by others … In our echo chambers, we develop these notions that others are to be distrusted, and we mistrust others, and migrants eat cats and dogs, all that kind of stuff. And as a result, we start believing these things. And the way we've picked up on that is really acute.'
You know how we used to have a high-trust society? Where people could depend on their family and friends for support? Where people attended churches they could rely on for support? Where people were able to call up a friend and have dinner?
Now we live in isolated bubbles, our only real friends are online, everyone has a fake social media personality, a majority of people don't go to church, more people are fatherless than ever before.
Apparently everything the liberal world order told us would make us happy - throwing off the "shackles" of faith, family, community, and Christian values - is instead making us sad.
I know, I know.
I'm a radical right-wing Christian nationalist because I noticed that leftwing secular globalism sucks.
The researchers say they were able to pick up on the distrust by asking whether or not people believed someone would return a lost wallet. Compared to the Nordic countries, people in the U.S. were more likely to underestimate the kindness of others.
A high-trust society takes generations to build, but only a single generation to destroy. Nordic countries, the least "diverse" countries in the world, are somehow the happiest and most trusting.
Riddle me that.
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