Gen Z Brain Rot

[ExploringReality]

Technically I grew up on the border of millennials and Gen z era, but I didn't grow up with a tablet and I didn't get a phone till the end of high school, I grew up spending time socializing with friends in real time, played sports, basketball, skateboarding, and boxing. I started reading osho, Alan Watts and very advanced self-help and metaphysical books in high school while everyone was on their phones, so I could genuinely connect with people but at the same time I fell like an outsider, A witness. I could step into people's reality bubbles and not get married to one paradigm and at the same time I can understand their worldview and the logics of it but I couldn't stay stuck in it, this simultaneously made me feel a little alone. 

Some examples of this gen z culture that we live in. 

•short attention span 

•tiktok for info and education 

•irony as communication and shallow condensed use of vocabulary for expressing feelings 

•not caring as value signaling 

•numbness 

Come up with more examples, what do you notice?

I don't claim to be special or above it, I just noticed it and I want to become aware of it more because in a sense I want to extricate myself from this.

If I didn't know something or wanted to learn a topic, I will go to Great lengths to read books on it to read articles on it and to cross reference things and sources, but now people will just go on tiktok, it's kind of lazy if I'm being honest.

Edited 22 hours ago by ExploringReality

[ExploringReality]

 

 

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

- inability to sit with, and endure discomfort 

- low resilince 

But these could be simple functions of a lack of experience. The gen Z employees I have trained show way different responses to older folks. They tend to get rattled by frustration really easily. It's so hard to work out of it is maturity or a generational change....

[Oeaohoo]

All these problems are downstream of the nihilism of our generation.

[Lyubov]

I sometimes wonder if I’m just getting older and this is just moral panic. Cause people were saying the same stuff about violent video games when I was growing up. But at the same time I do think kids should not be using these devices until they are teenagers / young adults. 

[Lila9]

Young people were born into a neoliberal, postmodernist, and nihilistic society. They are the symptom of the problem, not the issue.

Older people talk about them arrogantly and get offended by their behavior, but this is only because young people, unconsciously and without realizing it, hold up a mirror to older generations, reflecting the horrible state of society something that older generations usually put a blind eye on and love to brush under the rug.

Instead of questioning how they, as adults, contributed to this environment with their ignorance and stupidity, it is always easier to mock and make fun of younger people. Which is a behavior of a bully. It is easier to hurt someone who is weaker than them to make themselves feel good about themselves rather than confront powerful and wealthy people or do an inner observation.

This is why I will never be the grumpy old woman who complains about younger generations. I would rather complain about the politicians and the corrupted adults.

There is a trend of young people who are aware of the issues in their generation and actually do attempts to gain back their attention span, literacy skills and and more analog and slow living.

 

 

[ExploringReality]

 

 

 

[integral]

4 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

 

 

 

They didn't go through higher education, I assume.

Most Americans are like this it's not specific to Gen Z.

[Rigel]

4 hours ago, Oeaohoo said:

All these problems are downstream of the nihilism of our generation.

I’d be curious to ask any of them what nihilism is. I am anticipating a bunch of blank stares and bullshit. I think they suffer and cope with the low attention, fast reward crap cause they don’t know any better.

[ExploringReality]

@integral Naa bro. These are college graduates