What are your thoughts on Gen Z?

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Personally, I really dislike my generation. I feel like we are easily offended, overly idealistic and extremely vain. Obviously not everyone in this generation is like this, but so many are. This is seen by mainstream teen culture and the things it values, (nice shoes, attractive features, nice skin, a put together style, perfect hygiene). Of course, there's nothing inherently wrong with these things and they've always been valued in western culture as they are indicators of good health and economic standing. However, I feel like the obsession with them is absurd and ridiculous.

At the same time, I feel like a large number of us are pretty grounded and hard working, even despite the common culture. Many of us have been raised by first generation Americans and have seen firsthand how ridiculous so many (NOT ALL 🙄) millennials were.

However, at my point in life the majority are pretty pessimistic about things they actually have to work for, like so many people in my advanced classes especially chem and math are dropping it because it's hard. It's true that its hard but it's easy for me to maintain A's because of recourses on yt. We don't realize how privileged we are.

What do you think about us?

Curmudgeon · Accepted Answer

Too soon to tell, honestly. While generations do roughly have a 15-25 year span, they are often defined by major events in the nation and world that affected them, or sometimes by major events that *did not* affect them. The six generations still alive today:

1. The "GI" Generation, born mid 1920s and earlier. Rapidly passing away, but a few million of them still around in the USA I think. Affected as the name implies, by WW2.

2. The "Silent" Generation, born late 1920s to early 1940s. Beginning to pass away as well. Essentially affected by the 1950s. The Generation of Elvis. "Too young for WW2, too old for the Vietnam draft".

3. The "Boomers", born mid 1940s and 1950s, (maybe early 1960s?). As the name implies, born during the "baby boom" of the late 1940s and 1950s, later became the hippies, then the yuppies, now becoming the senior citizens.

4. "Generation X", born 1960s, 1970s, early 1980s. I am here. Last Children of the Cold War, which definitely sets us apart from younger Millennials/Generation Y. They mostly fell for Bernie Sanders guff, we mostly do not. Some argument as to where Boomers end and Generation X begins, I think the cut off point is how they remember the 1970s. Boomers as young adults remember it fancifully, Generation X as children were horrified by all the nonsense and decay.

5. Generation Y, born mid 1980s, 1990s, early 2000s? Sadly indoctrinated to be "Woke" by leftist Boomers. Did not learn lessons of Cold War.

6. Generation Z - born mid 2000s to present. Too soon to tell!

Levin · Accepted Answer

I'm pretty sure even in caveman times they thought the proceeding generation would be the death of the species...

The world already is dead. There is no going back from the things that have taken place in the last 2 years. Systemic collapse and a big extinction event is entirely possible. Hopefully what replaces it is much better.

The next generation give us so much hope.

For example, it is mostly the older generation that has perpetuated the suffering and the disaster of the last two years, by still tuning in to the mainstream media, to the fear based propaganda. Many young people don't even watch tv at all these days. A good third of young people rejected the jabs (at least initially, not sure of the percentage now). An unreasonable amount of suffering was placed upon the shoulders of young people. These people know what the score is.

On the other hand, this generation have never known a world without a screen. That is their biggest fallibility. This is the agenda that humanity has to battle in order to keep its soul. Its merging with AI, so humanity forgets its, well, humanity, its morality, its ultimate symbiotic wedding with nature.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

@curiosi_tea exactly what problems have the BOOMER'S made? See, right there you are being offensive to a whole generation of people. little' shit!

CarolineW · Accepted Answer

They're airheads. Anyone who actually thinks social media is important has got to be an airhead

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

I think as with all others there are good bits and not so good bits.

i believe all those born within the Social media and technology era.

Where life is pretty much seen through social media have it far harder than previous generations.

I grew up in Newcastle, we knew nothing about people say 300 miles away other than papers or on TV.

We did how we wanted, our only influences were things from Music papers and magazines and our mates.

Really not much tbh.

these days though everything is judged via social media, the internet, fashions and what’s in can almost change by the hour.

Anything that is said flies around the globe and everyone hears about it.

if I did something stupid, my mates took the piss and that was it.

we only had to be concerned about school bullies at school, now it’s school and internet bullies 24/7.

With Covid many will have it even harder due to missed education, changes in physical social interaction.

I think they may surprise us all.

everyone to the piss out of millennials, same with Gen X

Nomoturtle · Answer

I don't usually think in terms of generations, but I guess it's a mixed bag. I think there's a lot of poor philosophy, ideology, and upbringing going around at the moment, and they're partly involved and subject to that.
Otherwise, this is a generation that has grown up online with unprecedented access to knowledge, should they choose to use it. So maybe we'll see some super-humans coming out of that; becoming a polymath has never been so easy... so long as they don't remain addicted to social media forever.

And along with the decentralisation of knowledge, the "misinformation" regarding distributed narratives could lead to some interesting change.

Anonymous · Answer

I think all young people go through the phase, but although the phase always happens the world isn't the same every time. I think right now, between technology and politics, and subsequently economics, the culture for young people is totally fucked -- more than usual. It's an epistemological crisis. Millennials were fucked up first, now they're middle aged and assuming positions of authority and power, and Gen Z is looking to them to be guided, but find mostly lost childless degenerates selling them on toxic politics.

Ad_Quid_Orator · Answer

I don't like the generation classification system for those born after 1964 because they're sequential labels given to 15 year time increments. Instead, I think the '07-'08 financial collapse and the '20-'21 pandemic should define a generation that came of age during and between those events (those born ~1987-2004).

Anonymous · Answer

80% of them are absolute garbage. I don't like being so rude, but it's true. They are spoiled, they are immoral, they are narcissistic, they are selfish, they are disrespectful. They believe that they owe nothing to anyone, but everyone owes them. They believe that the world revolves around them and they are the center of the universe. They are completely subject to technology and know almost no real life. They are subject to disgusting "values" imposed by the liberal media, Hollywood, celebrities, the education system, and so on. Values ​​such as money, vulgarity, debauchery, violence, drugs and anything else that is disgusting and harmful to society. There are about 20% of good young people who usually come from good traditional families where upbringing and values ​​have been a priority. I really feel sorry for them because they will have to live in a world dominated by so many idiots.

MCheetah · Answer

They have far less idiots and narcissists than Millennials, so my view on them is slightly positive. But they all need to get the hell off TikTok.

FilmGuy93 · Answer

I'm not a super big fan of Gen Z either, but you guys aren't going through anything that Milennials didn't go through. You guys are going through it in a harder situation, but it's a lot of the same stuff.

Dargil · Answer

They have no purpose or vision. Just leftist propaganda to drive them. Paraphrasing George Orwell: "If there is hope it lies in the Hispanics" who actually have goals and work ethics.

EnglishEuropean · Answer

They're not subject to natural selection so naturally there's been a decline in genetic quality.

bean2k21 · Answer

I view them as a pre-cyborg society Sort of awkward creatures lugging their mobile Phone around and in constant connection With their fellow pre-cyborgs It's not very advanced or efficient

HighValue · Answer

Millennials are worse, then boomers. Gen Z is about the same as gen x, but each of those two are good and bad in different areas.

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

A generation is a generation & I don’t look at generations in a whole or what they accomplished or what they failed at I look at individual people.

Anonymous · Answer

Same song different chorus, honestly. All the generations aren't as separate as they seem, it's just that their culture comes in different forms.

MuddyMole · Answer

None of that is a generational thing - it's just an age thing. Generations X and Y were the same when they were younger.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Gen Z seems to be raised in mostly of a culture of millennials and stupid breeds more stupid. Stupidity isn't a virus but it sure spreads like one.

jshm2 · Answer

You're either full of shit, or been reading too many newspapers, as you've no clue about "Gen Z"

99.5% of the "Z culture" is trope and not based on any facts. It's just teens being teens, and little different to any other generation of teens. But now that the world is interconnected in 24/7 news cycles, a lot of false moral panics and generational "divisions" are manufactured to feed the news monster.

Very little is truthful or factual.

loveslongnails · Answer

y'all need to put down your cell phones and pay attention to what really matters.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

My generation of millennials are borderline retarded but generation Z come off as full retards.  I seriously don't like this generation of weirdos that Gen Z is.

Deserter · Answer

Your generation is an anomaly to me. Some of you are super hard working and driven and nothing really prompted that, just very ahead of the curve, the other bunch of you guys are just lazy libtards

bannacookies · Answer

As a whole, I think they're super selfish, & stupid.

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