Yglesias argues that the progressive politics of the 2010s encouraged progressives to think of everything in catastrophic terms, making them less happy. In essence, he sees teenagers as having been prodded by political and media figures into adopting the same kind of doomer worldview espoused by people like Taylor Lorenz.

Is it healthy to live in the future? I suspect not. We’re not really built for permanent high-speed change—accelerated acceleration. So will there come a collective cracking point? And if so, what would a collective cracking point look like? It might not be a riot or a referendum. It might be that we all wake up one morning and realize we’re not mi