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Sean K Fitzpatrick “There’s an epidemic affecting our nation’s young people. The epidemic is fear.”
As I scrolled through Instagram on my ride downtown to the Snapple Island Ferry Comedy Show, a reel from The Free Press popped up. Professor Arthur Brooks was making the case that “Gen Z is perhaps the most risk-averse generation in history.”
Now, I’m no psychologist. I’m a social media editor. And I theorize that some of that fear Brooks describes comes from our overexposure to a digital world that, seemingly, has all the answers. And when someone makes a decision outside the purview of algorithmic logic — like buying an abandoned ferry for $280,000 at a city auction — they are at the mercy of, well, being completely clowned.
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