By Col. Bill Connor —— Bio and Archives--March 27, 2024
The 2024 Gallup Poll of “happiness” by country portends an ominous downward trend in the United States. Until recent years, the United States consistently ranked in the top 10 “happiest” countries in the world. In the last couple of years, that ranking dipped below 10 but not by much. Last year, for example, Gallup ranked the U.S. at number 15.
Astonishingly, this year that number came all the way down to 23. Even more concerning was the burgeoning and ahistoric “age” gap shown in the survey. According to Gallup, Americans 60-and-over still rank in the top 10 in the world, while those under 30 ranked all the way down at a dismal 62. Based on these trends, we can expect the numbers to continue to plummet unless we discover the reason for such youth unhappiness and find a way to turn it around.
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By bob F on 2024 03 26
"...What doesn’t seem clear is why older Americans would remain so much happier than young Americans ..."
The difference is the use and concern (or lack thereof) of social media, which is without doubt the most corrosive garbage ever thrown into modern society.
Sadly, far too many social media users attain a measure of their self worth by way of pointless and useless metrics - how many "friends" they have (regardless if they haven't met any of them in Brazil or elsewhere), and showing off how wonderful their lives are with photos of that delicious muffin at Starbucks or the fantastic view from their vacation bungalow at the beach. However, many of those same people, invariably the youngin's, start to view the postings of others in their demographic and get deperessed that everyone else's life is even more perfect than their own.
Of course, they simply don't consider that, just as they do themselves, everyone curates whatever nonsense they put online. So consider - if you see all your friends and the losers you follow with wonderful shots of their parties and travels, etc., and sulk because this morning you tripped and ruined your nicest pair of slacks or sneezed and spilled your coffee on your boss - the sense of depression sets in. If these sad sacks were to realize that, in fact, all those other "winners" just don't post the photos of them spilling tomato soup on the Queen, or stepping in dog poop, then things would be fine. But that simple notion seems beyond them, and they sit back and whinge about how "everyone else's life is so much better than mine".
Meanwhile, older people, who have a grasp of reality in this world, generally don't care what others show or at least take it to heart to nearly the same degree that the Millennials and Gen Z-ers do. As a result, being depressed about such nonsense does not even occur to them.
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