"and parents are too scared to let their kids learn and make mistakes"

I just recently had a conversation about this. It's not just parents. People are being patronised all around and thus they're being cheated of learning from making mistakes. Today even banks try to tell people what they can nor cannot do with THEIR money as if they were their legal guardian rather than just a service provider. Making mistakes and failures in our younger years is what makes us the person we'll become later.

We're in a meaning crisis. Increasing resistance against historical societal structures, fragmentation among local communities. You know the story. Polarization driven in part by algorithms, and part by being in such close social proximity to individuals with strong differing opinions. The machine moves foreward without a concern for your needs, existing to just perpetuate itself regardless of what it eats up. Its easy to find yourself lost, unable or out of energy to find a way to improve your situation.

And so meaning/purpose is lost, concluding that you have no other options other than existing in a perpetual state of exhaustion with the world. If you're stuck in that hole, you're left with yourself to decide - do you continue being perpetually parasitized by the system, or do you exit? Especially in younger individuals where experiences are new and have larger impact, there is only one percieved way to exit the system.