I’ll be upfront and say that as a millennial, I was a shithead in my 20s. I never put my best foot forward and my work ethic was questionable at best, especially when I found the job to be bullshit. I think this is common for every generation growing up, so the amount of Gen Z hate I see constantly is staggering. Everywhere you look it is Gen Z being berated for not caring about work and how tech illiterate they are… But honestly I don’t really see that at least in the White Gen Z men. They seem fine and not anymore phone-addicted than Millennials and Gen X’ers, and if they did have a “lacking” work ethic, I don’t really blame them since they are still so young and living in a damn clown world and being constantly reminded of how much of a clown world they live in.
I don’t see a group of failures, I see a group that has been failed by whatever vestiges of a society we have left, and everybody seems to be more interested in keeping them down than bothering to lend a hand in any meaningful way.
I tend to agree.
Some people don't seem to want to admit when their memory's a little narrow or shoddy as they grow older. And further still some will often lack the humility, patience, and/or self awareness to admit when they're wrong or when they don't know as much as they pretend they do.
Lazy logic and rationale, assumption jumping, and just plain old scapegoating. It's not a new thing by any means, but it is sad to see first-hand just how many fall prey to it, giving in freely without so much as a second thought.
Having said that, there is certainly going to be some legitimate criticism to bear towards certain common trends and widely adopted habits. But maybe it would be more sensible to address those as they are rather than just trudging them up as a evidence to blanket dump on an entire generation.
Hell, who knows. Maybe some kind of cyclic generational bullshit could be put to rest if there wasn't so much petty squabbling and finger pointing.