>>3974170I mean, the opinion thing is pretty easy, you can think for yourself with pure information. Experience is different since it colours your views of the world with emotion. Emo-tion, see.
I think it's less the lack of motivation to experience and more the lack of motivation to feel and connect, to see everything through this teal-tinted lens of unearned cynicism
I heard somewhere that one of the key differences between millennials and zoomers is that the millennials grew up in the historically rare feeling of a world that was constantly and rapidly progressing, whereas the zoomers grew up in an age of stagnation and regression. The former were promised everything, the latter had no expectations. This may have been all stolen from Hunter S. Thompson
So perhaps the issue is that millennials saw their depression as angst, part of a more romantic grand narrative of tragedy, being :-( in a :-) world, whereas the zoomers saw their depression as depression, as an unremarkable reflection of the world already around them.
And of course, how authentic can any self-expression through your looks be in the postmodern post-ironic zeitgeist they grew up in?
Also, it's less hippies and more the whole counterculture movement. I think most did grow out of it. Just in a bad way that kinda explains where we are now to some extent
