The system rewards permanent adolescence.

 Even if the system is obsessed with adulthood, it does not raise "adults"; it rewards permanent adolescence. The intellect is numbed by internet memes. The imagination is outsourced to social media trends. Political discourse is reduced to hashtags and merchandise. Even rage is prepackaged: click, post, feel righteous, repeat. Depth is squeezed into algorithms: thumbs up, fire emoji, retweet, repeat. They don't think—they execute. They don’t imagine—they replicate. The system rewards obedience to the spectacle, not individuation. For individuation—true psychological sovereignty—is undesirable. It cannot be monetized, trended, polled, or “discussed” and debated in internet forums. The result is that they depend on a handful of emojis in order to be pacified. It is ironic that those who are obsessed with being “mature” are precisely these babies disguised in adult bodies.