Generation Z is deliberately ignorant
gammanu95
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Thursday, June 27, 2024 11:15 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/gen-zs-most-t…
The article is particularly concerning to me, because it shows a fundamental lack of principle. Where it reads that Gen Z seeks out the views of their peers and influencers to determine where their own views should be, is completely contradictory to the sort if individual intellectual autonomy that is necessary for a self-governing nation. That behavior is what creates a perpetual ruling class of elites, who grow increasingly disconnected from the people they govern and what is necessary to improve the lives and welfare of the nation. That ruling class of elites similarly looks to their peers and influencers for direction, ever travelling away from what is best for the everyday American and serving the interest of top 1% of 1%.
The failure is owed to the parents who failed to properly parent and raise their children, and to the local governments and state governments which allowed public schools and higher education to move away from education and instruction into guidance and indoctrination. I do not believe it is accurate to dismiss this article as fearmongering and doomsaying. Look around and really examine your daily interaction with Gen Z in everything from dining out, to shopping, to any in your workplace Very, very few of them are truly prepared to grow in their present career and take over the upper management and executive roles. You think AOC and MGT are bad? They're Millennials. Their Gen Z follow-ons are going to be much, much worse. It is like we are deliberately surrendering our status as the global superpower.
The article is particularly concerning to me, because it shows a fundamental lack of principle. Where it reads that Gen Z seeks out the views of their peers and influencers to determine where their own views should be, is completely contradictory to the sort if individual intellectual autonomy that is necessary for a self-governing nation. That behavior is what creates a perpetual ruling class of elites, who grow increasingly disconnected from the people they govern and what is necessary to improve the lives and welfare of the nation. That ruling class of elites similarly looks to their peers and influencers for direction, ever travelling away from what is best for the everyday American and serving the interest of top 1% of 1%.
The failure is owed to the parents who failed to properly parent and raise their children, and to the local governments and state governments which allowed public schools and higher education to move away from education and instruction into guidance and indoctrination. I do not believe it is accurate to dismiss this article as fearmongering and doomsaying. Look around and really examine your daily interaction with Gen Z in everything from dining out, to shopping, to any in your workplace Very, very few of them are truly prepared to grow in their present career and take over the upper management and executive roles. You think AOC and MGT are bad? They're Millennials. Their Gen Z follow-ons are going to be much, much worse. It is like we are deliberately surrendering our status as the global superpower.
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We parented them, though. We fucked them up. We created these algorithms for them to self-segregate, coddled them from the world.
Shit, Google studying this? They were the worst at doing it. Buncha self-righteous fucks saying "don't be evil" while actively filtering what they say. Their corporation is notoriously the worst, making engineers evaluate the "diversity impact" of three lines of code.
We're hi-key fucked, fam, frfr.
The future of this country is quite bleak if diversity is a more important criteria than credentials.
I used to think all millennials were morons but now that most of them are hovering around the age of 40 I know several successful and competent ones, although I also know a lot that still rely on their parents for a lot of things (not just financially).
I have a Gen X sibling and they have 3 Gen Z kids. All of them (including the parents) use TikTok as an encyclopedia, 4 of the 5 in the group think it’s their mission in life to look impressive on social media and 2 of them think the only path of success is to become a social media influencer. My sibling’s spouses income went through the roof during COVID which finances most of this bullshit for the family.
Kids are stupid, and to me, most people are “kids” until they are living on their own supporting themselves. Whether that happens when someone is 18 or 35 is to be determined. Eventually most of them snap out of it and grow up, hopefully leading successful lives. I see the OPs concern though, thinking these “kids” are never going to grow up. You can thank social media for that. People’s expectations are just too high because they’re being “influenced” by the few.
Young people don’t understand if you have a house, paid off by the time you reach 50, have 2 decent cars, a retirement fund, some money saved up, secure job you’re doing pretty good these days.
No they don’t want any of that, they live with their parents, demand trips to Dubai and Bali and have to have a new Tesla even though they made $35k a year. They don’t want a house because they view it as a stupid burden and rather live at home or rent and spend their money on experiences.
That was all the time it took for Clinton to erode our status on the global stage to embolden our enemies, and destroy trust in the government for anti-federal militias and SovCits to take hold. That was when Cali turned blue. Prior to all of that, our diversity was a strength as a melting pot. Now, immigrants and special interests want their own way at the expense of everyone else- particularly the tax payers.
MGT may have been born GenX, but she has the mentality and emotional literacy if a Millennial. I also wanted to be balanced and lambast extreme left and right. We can replace her with Matt Gaetz, if you prefer.
The title reads, and I quote:
“Generation Z is deliberately ignorant”
It should read:
“Americans are deliberately ignorant, paranoid, hypocrites and ungrateful malcontents and live in denial.”
“That denial, ignorance and paranoid behavior is what creates in America a perpetual ruling class of elites, who grow increasingly disconnected from the people they govern and what is necessary to improve the lives and welfare of the nation.
That ruling class of elites similarly looks to their peers and influencers for direction, ever travelling away from what is best for the everyday American and serving the interest of top 1% of 1%.”
TIFFY you are welcome.
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i only deal with them though through a transactional basis. mainly they are at work as cashiers or eatery waitstaff. and of course the young dancers at the clubs.
so for me if i'm not engaging with them the way i do as pointed above there really is no point to associate with them. generally they're not my scene, type of crowd.
If the Internet commerce and social media companies were doing this, why would they limit it to "Gen Z"? And if the experience of the online public were to be altered gradually yet uniformly in a comfortably personalized way, would most people even be aware of it?
@gammanu - "That was when people stopped being Black Americans and becamr African-Americans."
Actually I hear them being called black Americans again. No idea when African Americans stopped being in vogue. They're also very different from what they call Caribbeans and Africans, even if the gene pool is the same.
Well if we're still here in a couple of years let's revisit this again. I've been hanging around on TUSCL for the past twenty so odds are I'll still be around if the site is.
SMH
Very interesting read. I think it's probably a fair, anthropologically sound although statistically weak, description of "what goes on in their heads."
The best comment(s) here are the ones that re-describe this trend as, no longer using the word "illogical", instead saying, "non-logical." It's not that they take the right evidence but add it up poorly to a probably wrong conclusion. Nor is it that they take wrong evidence as fact and then add it up to an inevitably wrong conclusion. It's that they don't take evidence and don't add it up.
I see a whole generation of "useful idiots", masses begging for administration of "influence" and ignoring anything otherwise. Both Right and Left are trying to pander to them in order to use them. Note our biases: I think the Right does a better job at misleading and therefore using and abusing those masses than does the Left, but that is probably because I generally vote Left; I suspect those of you who generally vote Right probably think the Left has been doing more effective pandering.
Either way, it's an interesting paradigm shift. Basically, what this article teaches me is, STOP USING FACTS. Get a hot chick with nice tits, put her in a yoga outfit, write a lot of comments, and parade a sign near her.
Heck, Budweiser has been doing it for generations. Don't show the beer. Don't show the beer being tasty or healthful or quenching. Just show the lovely horses. Or the tits. Like this: TITS Budweiser TITS. See, people buy your product that way.
It's the strip-club-ification of the USA. Why complain?
No matter what you believe, if you only read what one side has to say, then you're a dumb fuck. That is why all progressives are dumb fucks and all Trumpists are dumb fucks.
I am a conservative. I live in one of the most liberal areas of the entire country, in a profession overrun by political correctness and yet somehow manage to survive and thrive. Why? Easy. We're pretty equally divided and equally divided is eternal stalemate (see WW1), we're no one ever wins, but everyone loses. The melting pot (the loss of which is the single greatest tragedy in American history) was all about mixing together and compromise. Now we're all in these little "communities" battling for the title of biggest victim ever. We're fucking Yugoslavia after Tito died. So glad to have lived most of my life in real America. Miss ya bro.
Maybe if we had taught Millennials and Gen Z how to think critically instead of what to think and critical race theory, we wouldn't be a country full of dumb fucks trying to choose between a giant douche and turd sandwich to lead the free world.
https://x.com/hof_meme/status/1806272990…
Is it insisting on victimhood or simply insisting on "something"? Doesn't everyone have something they'd embrace as a cause or call out for change?