Yup. Hitchens was pretty prophetic about this when he wrote his "in defense of teenage drinking" piece 30 years ago. Now you have an entire generation of perma

Yup. Hitchens was pretty prophetic about this when he wrote his "in defense of teenage drinking" piece 30 years ago. Now you have an entire generation of permanently in therapy pill poppers or weed smoking loners. An entire cohort of Biedermeiers, bores and shut-ins. Here in Germany where the drinking age is 16 it was always funny to see US expats let loose when they realized that teenagers can legally drink and don't need to do it secretly These days you have people in their mid 20s watching 10 hours per day of right-wing influencers online because they can't talk to women instead of going to a party and getting drunk and laid. It's honestly no surprise the world's craziest autocrats tend to be teetotalers, it's how you breed yourself an army of frustrated followers