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 yesterday at 06:07 PM 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 

 

 

[ExploringReality]

No excuses. Dumb n dumber couldn't top this shit

 

[integral]

@ExploringReality YA OK DUDE these are the cherry picked worst of the worst, uneducated and they were put on the spot.

I don't know the 50th president United States. Do you?

Not knowing how many moons there are is pretty dumb doe 😭

Edited 6 hours ago by integral

[ExploringReality]

18 minutes ago, integral said:

@ExploringReality YA OK DUDE these are the cherry picked worst of the worst, uneducated and they were put on the spot.

I don't know the 50th president United States. Do you?

Not knowing how many moons there are is pretty dumb doe 😭

These people vote! 😂 

There are only 47 presidents as of now. It was funny though but man these are our fellow humans. Makes me just want to learn basic history, read more. I'm glad I don't have a tiktok for fucks sake

Edited 6 hours ago by ExploringReality

[Miguel1]

The youngsters are more spoiled than any generation before. There lies the biggest root issue.

[ExploringReality]

@Leo Gura you mentioned in your latest episode " deconstructing rationality part 3" that what's happening with AI with this generation is really bad, pretty soon kids won't even be able to read. Well it's already happened.

 

[Leo Gura]

@ExploringReality Yes, I know

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@ExploringReality my sister in law teaches primary school. She has made a few comments about how literacy levels have dropped in each grade from 10 years ago.

[Willy Phallicus]

Guys like Alvin Toffler and Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote about this in the 1970s.  John Taylor Gatto is another good author on the subject of the education system.

At the risk of sounding conspiratorial this outcome was desired so I'm certainly not surprised.

[bazera]

My niece is 7 years old, and lately I've noticed that she has acquired a brain-rot vocabulary, when I asked her where she heared that stuff, she said that in school everybody was watching these instagram / youtube / tiktok reels, and even though my sister restricts her to use phone or scroll through anything, she still picked up this brainrot stuff from her classmates.

I don't know what can be the solution to that. And now imagine these kids will grow up not knowing pre-AI world. For them AI chat bots and robots will be very ordinary and all the slop that comes with it. Not to mention that they'll lose (or don't even develop in the first place) an ability to derive any kind of truth for themselves.

That's why I hesistate on having children in this era. I'm not really sure how to properly raise a child in this mess.

Edited 1 hour ago by bazera

[Ulax]

3 hours ago, Miguel1 said:

The youngsters are more spoiled than any generation before. There lies the biggest root issue.

In some ways I agree. 

In some ways I disagree.

For example, this young generation is much worse of in terms of ability to get a house, and they have to deal with trying to make it in a world full of addictive tech.