Main Character Syndrome Part 2

One Gen Z writer even declared that Hannah’s infamous “I am the voice of my generation” line reflects “the low-key narcissistic confidence and romanticizing of life so many Gen Zers express on TikTok.”

I think Girls is more popular now because people are getting more annoying. I hate to say it, but as a generation we’re more annoying than millennials because we’re self-aware, but we continue to act the way we do.”

It is useful, every now and then, to be dragged from a fantasy and remember that you share a world with other people, some of whom might be confronting the sudden noise of their own discomforts.

For instance, I hate to sound like a travel diva, but on airplanes I love a window seat. I have purchased slightly more expensive and significantly more inconvenient flights just so that I can have a window seat. With noise-cancelling headphones and a window seat, you can build your own universe.

The world feels as if it is moving too fast, sweeping people up in a forward churn that—among other things—aims to make individuality yet another myth. You are told that everything you desire is at your fingertips, and that your life is going to be made easier than ever, but at the cost of blending into a monochromatic background, as forgettable as... See more

It is inconvenient to be a person, floating through the grand and impossible world, significant in your own resplendent garden of hours but insignificant as a fleck of dust in the greater arc of the universe.

“I hear so much as a therapist that we don’t have community anymore. We don’t have gathering spaces anymore. We don’t have spirituality and religion anymore. What do we have? We have control over our own appearance. We have capitalism and an obsession with perfectionism and scarcity.”

I think this also where the rise of "I don't owe anyone anything" individualism comes from, because that kind of selfishness enables you to use other people as means to an end, not independent people whose opinions, feelings, etc. you have to take into account.