
Something is going wrong with us. The easy way to to put it is: living through a time of stagnation, upheaval, and decline, young people today are lonely, depressed, addicted, self-harming and suicidal — and it doesn’t feel as if their elders have much of a clue as to the intensity or magnitude of it. But I want to describe how all that feels, at least to me — and you can judge for yourself if it hol…