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 10 hours ago by ExploringReality