Anyone from the US who graduated in '10 had 9/11 as the formative event of their childhood, followed by the Great Recession just as they reached workforce age.

Anyone from the US who graduated in '10 had 9/11 as the formative event of their childhood, followed by the Great Recession just as they reached workforce age. For almost their entire lives, the US was at war, and for every day of their lives, they watched the climate get worse. They know in their bones that they're growing up in a world worse than the one their parents grew up in, and that it's largely the fault of institutions that were morally reponsible for protecting them and failed to do so. They've been preparing for doom since they were weaned.