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and generally horrifying information about the state of affairs. Some choice quotes:
People always say that every generation thinks the younger generation is getting weird, and is crazier. But I believe that what I am witnessing of the gen alphas is just completely different from the type of rebellion of my generation (gen z).
People will keep saying “we’ve always complained about the newest generation,” but society is fundamentally different now and it’s not just this generation. My parents are victims too, slaves to their devices. It seems like only some Gen X and Millennials are at least technologically aware enough to see what’s going on.
The screen and media addiction of generation alpha is actually an emergency that requires government intervention. Its literally like a black mirror episode what this stuff is doing to kids.
They are that incapable of looking at stationary with print on it. If it doesn’t have a back-light and it doesn’t move, it will not keep their attention.
From the Gen Z side I can a little bit understand this abstract feeling that all the previous generations are the ones responsible for why everything fucking sucks and the world is ending.
I’m at the oldest end of Gen Z so I got to grow up in the “If we take these steps, we can prevent climate change and save the world!” time, unable to influence anything and watching as no one did anything.
Obviously blaming generations is not a good analysis, but it does feel like “everyone else ruined this for me.” Boomers obviously being the most to blame, but if we’re talking large scale we needed the 2008 recession to become a violent revolution and Millenials were the ones that were revolution age at the time. Millenials could’ve also done a lot in the “assassinating fossil fuel and healthcare executives” sphere, something Gen Z has started to pick up but it’s a bit too little too late, would’ve been a lot more effective 15-20 years ago, when I was still in elementary school and being told to recycle.
Is this good, sound, material analysis? No obviously it’s not. But it’s very easy to fall into those broad feelings if you’re aware that shit’s fucked and the planet’s on fire but aren’t deeply invested into why.
Good comment. I remember feeling the same at your age.
I can only speak as someone who is on the younger side of millennial, so I can relate to the climate change stuff. I was single digits when 9/11 happened. It was hard growing up and wanting to fix things, wanting someone to do something but not knowing what to do and having absolutely no guidance. Not knowing the sheer extent of evil we were dealing with. So much propaganda and gaslighting going on, telling us we were weak and stupid and to just work harder and stop complaining. We tried, but we didn’t know what we were up against.
Keep in mind that until Bernie started being popular in 2016, the idea of anything remotely left of Obama was laughable. It wasn’t even in the realm of possibility. That’s how fucked the political landscape was. It wasn’t until I discovered the dirtbag left that I realised communism was even an option.
But that shouldn’t be an excuse. I hate how we failed the younger generations just like the Boomers failed us (and even then, there were Boomers that tried to fix things too, in their own hippie way).
The thing that pissed me off the most growing up is when I would ask Boomers why the fuck they weren’t doing anything about climate change, they would either say “that’s a hundred years away stop worrying” or “the generation after yours will fix it, they’ll be super smart”.
Fuck that, we shouldn’t be asking young people to fix our mistakes.