In his November 2025 YouTube video “Gen Z’s Radicalization Shouldn’t Surprise You,” Cole Hastings attributes the surge of extreme ideologies among Generation Z (born 1997–2012)—such as incel “blackpilling,” looksmaxxing, and groyping—to interlocking socioeconomic precarity, institutional betrayals, and algorithmic echo chambers that mimic PTSD-like dysregulation. Drawing historical analogies to Weimar Germany’s hyperinflation-riven youth extremism and the 1960s’ countercultural backlash against Vietnam-era drafts, Hastings calls for empathy-driven deradicalization via reduced screen time and creative reconnection. This paper synthesizes Hastings’ socio-psychological framework with Steven Greer’s 2023 documentary The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It, which exposes over a century of suppressed advanced physics and energy technologies—including Nikola Tesla’s wireless power transmission, zero-point energy (ZPE) extraction from quantum vacuum fluctuations, and anti-gravity propulsion derived from post-WWII UFO recoveries. Greer documents a military-industrial “cabal” enforcing scarcity via patent seizures (e.g., 5,700+ inventions classified under U.S. national security orders since 1971) and inventor intimidation, perpetuating fossil fuel dependency, poverty, and geopolitical conflicts for profit. The integration reveals withheld innovations as the root catalyst for Hastings’ observed despair: engineered energy scarcity inflates living costs, mirroring Weimar’s 29,500% monthly hyperinflation and fueling Gen Z’s 25% youth unemployment rates (EU, 2025); elite hoarding erodes trust in institutions; and a “techno-feudal” digital landscape (Varoufakis, 2021) amplifies fatalistic subcultures. Empirical ties draw from Hal Puthoff’s ZPE engineering models, Tom Bearden’s scalar electromagnetics for vacuum energy harvesting, and Charles Chase’s Lockheed Martin compact fusion prototypes—evidence of viable, suppressed pathways to abundance. This analysis bridges social psychology, historiography, and heterodox physics, advocating disclosure as a bulwark against extremism and a conduit for societal renewal.