RE: Home Depot Panics After Entire Generation Discovered To Be Functionally Autistic - Makes Video Tutorials For Proper Operation Of Tape Measures, Hammers, Nails & Mops
"I swear they are the dimmest generation to have ever existed. So many are all about instant gratification for themselves and nothing else. "
I blame the technology that grants instant gratification, combined with a culture that encourages the same.
The latter is particularly insidious and operates mostly uncriticized, preaching patent falsehoods like "you can be anything you want to be" and "everyone will love you if you just be yourself." That's how you get generations buying The Secret and the inappropriately named "Law" of Attraction, which has been scientifically proven to be false.
We should probably not even touch the social hot potatoes that would made a population incredulous a mere decade or tow ago, such as "fat acceptance."
The common thread in all of these poison pills is that you do not need to put in time, effort, or work into whatever the task at hand is. When the results is objectively lower quality humans, it's really not a surprise - it's exactly what you'd expect.
Combine that with smartphone technology, Instagram filters, and Tinder and you have a reputation for the most entitled, solipsistic and unskilled generation the world may have ever known.
well said. I reckon your absolutely correct about technology being. I heard it said recently that say people in my age bracket were born in an analog based world and are adults in a digital world. Where as the millenials are almost total born in the digital era. I guess that makes a hell of a difference.
"I guess that makes a hell of a difference."
I'm afraid it does. I can feel technology changing me.
My attention span is shorter than it was as a child, for example. Ugh.