A culture that kills its children has no future

Found this to be quite depressing but valuable read. I'm not from the US, so I wouldn't presume to comment on the specifics of the culture in the US, despite being interested its politics and culture for way more than a decade, but I think the article is applicable to different societal ills that the citizens of every country forced to endure for various, and mostly needless, reasons. Particularly the quotes below hit the chord for me:

...these aren’t the growing pains of a society making difficult advances toward an orderly peace. These are the morbid symptoms of a society coming undone, and they arise largely from policy choices made by interested parties with material motives.

But perhaps the most troubling symptom of our cultural rot is the sense, detectable already in some people, that there simply is no future for us at all. This sentiment takes many forms, whether individual or national.

All around us things that ought to matter shrink in proportion to things that ought not to; a sense of real agency in politics or government feels limited, distant; lives that used to seem perfectly accessible to your average young person seem impossible now, while darkly fantastical lives ... are growing more familiar to us. I fear they’ll become more familiar still.