You're granting him the benefit of time that you're not gracing younger generations with.

I doubt, seriously doubt, that he faced every single setback or challenge with such a detached bootstrap mentality while he was going through it. Nobody does.

It cannot be argued that younger generations have their own traumas just as Charles' had theirs. Child abuse, religious abuse, alcoholism and other addictions, deep poverty, and parental abandonment haven't gone anywhere. They're not going to end anytime soon.

He's got 6 siblings. 7 more if you count the foster kids. How many of them made it? We know 2 ended up in prison. Are you really going to say it's because they just weren't plucky enough?

He got lucky. And he had advantages he couldn't see past the trauma he endured, which was not insignificant.

Not everyone in Gen Z is going to make it. Their ability and willingness to talk about the traumas they're facing collectively and individually using social media that's available to them is not a poor reflection on them or an indicator of their weakness. That's bullshit.

NOBODY wants to be abused by the people who are supposed to love and protect them. NOBODY wants to be the child of an addict or grow up to be an addict themselves.

So maybe it's unwise and callous to write them all off so casually and flippantly. After all, I have to believe, given how easily a certain age set falls into loud and vociferous complaining about others, if social media had been available to them, they would have used it too. They would have been all over it.