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Yes, zealots tend to be passionate. Passion isn’t by itself a good quality. Especially when you’ve acquired no wisdom at all. I think they’re a group of people

Yes, zealots tend to be passionate. Passion isn’t by itself a good quality. Especially when you’ve acquired no wisdom at all. I think they’re a group of people with too much knowledge but nearly no wisdom. They mistake knowledge for knowing something. Again, generally speaking. I don’t think it’s their fault. We have infantilized them and never let them out of the cage. We were so scared of them failing that they’ve picked up on it and have packaged it as compulsive neuroticism. They’ve been overloaded with information from dubious sources for years now. Saying that there’s a lot of great kids out there.

woodruffw 4y ago
> Yes, zealots tend to be passionate. Passion isn’t by itself a good quality. Especially when you’ve acquired no wisdom at all. Sure, but this is not a particularly new phenomenon. Nobody expects a generation of children and young adults (at the absolute oldest!) to be wise beyond their years. I'm in my mid-20s, and even I'm too old to be a Zoomer. People accused Gen Xers of being coddled and "smart without being wise." They called them zealots when they burned their draft cards and tied themselves to trees, engaged in mass strikes, etc. Passion in young people is not new, and neither is "but this generation is different." For what it's worth, I actually do agree that helicopter parenting (among other things) have a deleterious affect on kids. But that's a 40+ year old phenomenon, one that's not unique to gen Z. And of all the people I know online, Zoomers are the least susceptible to fake information (if only because so many of them are nihilistic).
- nemo44x 4y ago
  I think you’re confusing Boomers with GenX. GenX is notorious for not caring and for slacking and for cynicism. It’s why there’s so many great comedians from that generation working today. Not much was taken too seriously. I’m sure some tied themselves to trees though but not group strikes. GenX has very suspicious of group identity and “selling out”. A corporation pandering to their values would be mortifying. Very much the opposite of todays kids. Which makes sense as it’s their kids.
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    Yeah, I got things a little twisted. But the point stands: Boomers were originally lambasted for being soft and idealistic, as the first post-war generation. They’re now the ones, if we’re painting broad strokes, posting reactionary screeds about the younger generations. > GenX has very suspicious of group identity and “selling out”. The Pepsi Generation is suspicious of selling out?

woodruffw 4y ago

> Yes, zealots tend to be passionate. Passion isn’t by itself a good quality. Especially when you’ve acquired no wisdom at all. Sure, but this is not a particularly new phenomenon. Nobody expects a generation of children and young adults (at the absolute oldest!) to be wise beyond their years. I'm in my mid-20s, and even I'm too old to be a Zoomer. People accused Gen Xers of being coddled and "smart without being wise." They called them zealots when they burned their draft cards and tied themselves to trees, engaged in mass strikes, etc. Passion in young people is not new, and neither is "but this generation is different." For what it's worth, I actually do agree that helicopter parenting (among other things) have a deleterious affect on kids. But that's a 40+ year old phenomenon, one that's not unique to gen Z. And of all the people I know online, Zoomers are the least susceptible to fake information (if only because so many of them are nihilistic).

nemo44x 4y ago
I think you’re confusing Boomers with GenX. GenX is notorious for not caring and for slacking and for cynicism. It’s why there’s so many great comedians from that generation working today. Not much was taken too seriously. I’m sure some tied themselves to trees though but not group strikes. GenX has very suspicious of group identity and “selling out”. A corporation pandering to their values would be mortifying. Very much the opposite of todays kids. Which makes sense as it’s their kids.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  Yeah, I got things a little twisted. But the point stands: Boomers were originally lambasted for being soft and idealistic, as the first post-war generation. They’re now the ones, if we’re painting broad strokes, posting reactionary screeds about the younger generations. > GenX has very suspicious of group identity and “selling out”. The Pepsi Generation is suspicious of selling out?