As with many things that have been on the decline for generations, the generation before mine looked at the 2000's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 1980s, just as my generation looks at the 2020's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 2000's.
Both things can be true:
The 2000's were kinda trash (true)
The 2000's were a better time in many ways compared to now (also probably true)
You are so right. I took a job at the high school I gradutated from circa 2010 and the place is unrecognizable now. It is essentially a prison. Virtually no learning occurs at any point in any class.
As with many things that have been on the decline for generations, the generation before mine looked at the 2000's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 1980s, just as my generation looks at the 2020's from the standpoint of how they degraded compared to the 2000's.
Both things can be true:
Laughs in University student…
The decline in quality of everything about that experience is the most precipitous thing I have almost ever seen…
Like, even compared to say, government services, pre and post Covid (also massively worse, just less so).
It’s incredible.
Like, comparing 2018 to now is crazy, but comparing 2014 (when I first started, at a different Uni) to now is mindblowing…
It’s almost like… I’d go beyond “generation gap” and go with barely recognizable as the same level of education anymore…
I seriously fear for the young ones who don’t know better.
They have no idea what a dick-over they are getting by these so called “respected institutions”, and the staff within them…
No wonder Gen Z is so fucked.
You are so right. I took a job at the high school I gradutated from circa 2010 and the place is unrecognizable now. It is essentially a prison. Virtually no learning occurs at any point in any class.
The popularity of the Xbox360 despite the red ring of death should have punctuated just how naive people were back then.
"Get your Xbox360 now and we'll ship a replacement over to you when it craps out within three months of purchase! Premium shipping guaranteed!"