Excellent piece and a good follow on thought track from my article (even though you'd pre-written it a year or so ago in some time-wimey distortion) Don't forget the cardinal rules of driving traffic to your stories... unsplash image, slightly clickbaity title and subtitle to draw the readers in.
I will say it, there's nothing trite and pedantic about this writing - and you have some excellent points about the state of the world and the state of our children. If I had to put my finger on it, I'm going to say you're one of those underconfident writers with limiting beliefs I just wrote about. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/how-to-challenge-your-limiting-beliefs-about-succeeding-as-a-writer-e54353b39e8b
So let's see if we can give this article a kick :o)