"Mental health" is a convenient box

An entire generation of privileged youths with cognitive faculties stunted by isolation and digital opiates grapple with ideological defeat

Mental health is the “issue” seemingly resonating among privileged Filipino kids nowadays. This is specially relevant when one considers that the catastrophic loss in these elections of the Opposition “led” by Leni Robredo hit particularly hard the wokest, most privileged, and most rabidly Yellow- and left-leaning student, faculty, and alumni communities in the country — those of the Ateneo de Manila, the University of the Philippines, De La Salle University, and the University of Santo Tomas.