There is nothing that I find more pathetic than hating young people.

It’s our responsibility to help the next generation have a damn future, not complain at them until they become loyal servents.

People act like the kids owe them something. No it’s the other way around, we owe them.

We have an ass backwards society where kids are expected to raise themselves and serve adults. It’s insane.

I can’t count how many times I’ve been out somewhere and there is some parent screeching at their child like a bratty teenager. Like holy shit, how did we get to the point where parents are less mature than their kids? It’s pathetic.

And then people complain that kids show no respect and youth crime is up. Yeah, no shit, who would respect a society of selfish brats? You act like a prick in front of your kids and now they’re pricks too. No shit. Instead of setting an example and being decent human beings we act like screeching tyrants and expect them to grow up to respect us and society? What a joke.

    • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      but really I honestly don’t get this big focus on the difference between generations. Maybe it’s because I sort of straddle the line between millennial and gen z and have good friends in both camps, but gen z is not really doing that much that’s new. Even gen alpha and their “skibidi toilet” that everyone is suddenly up in arms about is not really that different from the things that came before. Most of the characteristics of these generations that people are focusing have been around for a long, long time. Like three-quarters of their slang (which is really just Black slang) I’ve been using since at least 2010. You can even hear a good deal of “gen z slang” in old 90s hip-hop. And nearly all of their music and shit I can hear the beginnings of in all the shit that I used to listen to. Anime, fandom, cosplay, none of this stuff is new. Maybe because it’s all more mainstream now, I don’t know. But people treat gen z as this radical departure from some imagined norm, but if you’ve been paying attention for the last decade and a half it’s not really new.