Not from technology, or entertainments based on it.
Tech entertainments are like vitamins: too much is toxic, but not enough isn't so good either.
Adults owe it to kids to talk to them. A lot. And spend time with them. A lot.
Watching television and movies with children and talking about the programs and movies afterward gives them a model for using the art form as a way to reflect on their lives and the reality around them. (Talking back to the screen during the television shows can actually be beneficial! It's not worship, after all.) They take that skill with them when they grow up. Playing interactive video games with them, likewise, even though we, the adults, tend to lose miserably.
The sorrow you observe is real, but it comes from isolation and lack of intellectual stimulation from the adult humans in their lives. As dull and boring as we are, as deficient in special effects, we still have more depth, subtlety, and randomness than any entertainment yet devised.
We adults have used the tech entertainments as pacifiers. That's not what art is for.
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The unhappiness of the young comes from adults who stopped talking to them.
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