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Magazine and book readers are not the same fiends that is Gen Z.
by bloomingkales 2y ago
Magazine and book readers are not the same fiends that is Gen Z.
- eru 2y agoPeople have been complaining about 'kids these days' for longer than recorded history.
- bloomingkales 2y agoThese are different kids, seriously, ask them yourself. No generation was raised like this ever in history.
- rezonant 2y ago[flagged]
- Mogzol 2y agoNo generation was raised like the previous one ever in history
- mavhc 2y agothe kids of 10000 BC are totally unlike the kids of 10020 BC
- NiloCK 2y agoThis is only true recently! Through most of history people lived and died with technology and culture nearly identical to that of their parents / grandparents. In terms of tech and cultural evolution, we are on the uptick of a hockey-stick growth. It's absolutely accurate that `kids these days` have grown up in a different environment than `grownups these days` than the same demographics from 50, 100, 200, or 1000 years ago.
- outadoc 2y agoWere you raised as the TV generation or the video game generation? Because I guarantee you your elders were saying the same thing about your generation.
- eru 2y agoDon't forget Rock and/or Roll!
- kbelder 2y agoAnd comic books.
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- bloomingkales 2y agoOkay. You don’t think this is serious. Hang out on Twitch for a week. If you don’t walk away thinking it’s a crack den of addiction and sex then, just ew, stop talking to me.
- BoingBoomTschak 2y agoAnd have people been wrong? Have our societies not changed a iota? Is protracted decline impossible?
- rat87 2y agoConsidering that people have been making such complaints for millennium and we aren't so terrible as so many generations of detiraration would imply they're usuallybut not always wrong
- a-french-anon 2y agoAnyway, even if people have always complained about it (which remains to be proven really; inb4 single data point of Plato), doesn't mean it's always or even most of the time wrong. The "kids just lack manners these days" should also be separated from more detailed criticism. That whole thing about denying that decadence is even possible is so comically a symptom of people being part of said decadence not wanting to admit it.
- bloomingkales 2y agoThank you, you are much more diplomatic about this. I wrote a few horrifyingly aggressive responses to a few here about this because I'm a little astonished that people still give this whole phenomena a pass. From my other post: Overall, when the parents lose control of the child, the culture takes over parenting. When the culture is ridiculous, the child grows to become a ridiculous adult and won't know it and possibly even defend it.
- dsego 2y agoEmpires have fallen and civilizations have crumbled, an idiocracy like scenario is not unimaginable.
- bloomingkales 2y agoYou just don't know how bad you are or how bad your society is. Do you think the Taliban thinks they are fucked up? I'm not comparing you to the Taliban, I'm just asking what do you think they think? It's important to think about what we think.