Our bodies have a nasty habit of betraying us. We think it's time to exercise our eyes and ears, but too often we make the mistake of trying to do that on our phones, our tablets, and our watches—stuff we keep within arms' reach, in contrast to the sometimes punishingly long workdays and unending chaos of real life. We try to fill up our days, but we can't. Time gets compressed to the point that even a hardscrabble, risk-loving Millennial has little leeway for extra days—as it was just once you turned your 21st-century head.
Which brings us to a new dystopian trend among the ancient ones, as someone once said about the coming of the zombie apocalypse—a plague of their children, too young to know what they're getting into, who've started to go crazy after witnessing it all. This new generation of Gen Ys—born around the turn of the millennium—are already showing up in hospitals and in the ERs of major cities with behavioral disorders, a growing number of whom are strung out on methamphetamine. Meth can keep you up at night, of course, but in its grip, a new zombie has the ability to literally kill you, driving a person
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