Gen Z/Millennials: Anxiety, Purpose, and Finding Your True Identity #shorts

16 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this YouTube Short, Harry Pitts examines why Gen Z and millennials experience high levels of anxiety. He argues that the root cause is a loss of purpose that occurs when individuals are disconnected from the 'manufacturer'—a metaphor for God or a higher authority. Modern culture encourages people to create their own truth and define themselves, but Pitts contends this self‑definition is a heavy burden not meant for humans. He describes how social media fuels a trap: users curate digital personas to chase likes and approval from strangers, creating a dopamine‑driven feedback loop that leads to depression. This performance for an indifferent audience deepens the sense of emptiness. Pitts then presents a Christian perspective, stating that true identity is not discovered inwardly but received from God. He emphasizes that before birth, each person’s identity was already established by the King of Kings, and that this "kingdom truth" offers a settled, purpose‑filled identity beyond the anxiety‑inducing self‑construction of contemporary culture.

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Why is Gen Z and the millennial generation so anxious? I'm glad you asked, because when you disconnect a product from its manufacturer, the product loses its purpose. When you lose purpose, you abuse the product. The world tells you, create your own truth, define yourself. That sounds liberating, doesn't it? But the reality of the matter is, it is a heavy burden that many of us are not simply meant to carry. You were never designed to carry the weight of defining your existence. That is the manufacturer's job. The social media trap that many people fall in, and they do, they do fall in this. We curate digital personas to get likes. Approval from strangers that we don't even know, creating a feedback loop of dopamine and depression. We're actors performing for an audience that doesn't even care. They don't even know you. So when we look at this kingdom truth about identity, identity is not discovered by looking inward. It is received by looking upward. To our God, to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You don't find yourself, you discover who you are, who you were before you were born. In the kingdom, we, we see the kingdom identity is already settled. It is done.