Tbh its hard to find inner peace in the world when we are feed bad news every minute.
It really is, especially as more and more of our lives are reliant on these devices, and you can't even escape it fully. To the point where are cars our now connected. In a way this mass connection we all live with has made the world seem smaller, and actually less connected over all when it comes to, like you said, seeing what's really in front of you.
I don't find it all surprising that younger generations find themselves more lost and isolated. Being introduced to all of this at a young age definitely will lead to some emptiness. It's a bit different to those who lived before smartphones.
One of the saddest things I've witnessed is coming across someone from Iran and having them call me "bruh". That really put things into perspective for me, the abandonment of culture without really noticing it, and the mass adoption of a universal Internet culture to replace it. It actually does give me anxiety at this point trying to figure out where we're all heading, I just have no idea where things will be in 5 years let alone the next 10. Feels like we're on the brink of the next big advancement that changes everything, and I'm not sure if that should be more worrying, or the stagnation that comes instead in the event that we struggle to move forward.