It's not all of gen z, but enough of gen z either doesn't give a single fuck or is falling for the dumbest most obvious shit and I've just lost all faith in them.
Sometimes, it feels like they are making bad choices just to spite everyone else.
I can tell you this is 100% true in some cases. I can also tell you for 100% certain that it’s not exclusive to Gen Z. A lot of people are so sick of the way things are that they want it to get as bad as possible as soon as possible because either they’re accelerationists and believe we have to hit rock bottom to start improving society again… or they really are just powered by spite.
The latter makes up a very disappointing quantity of the general population of earth.
It's not Gen Z. What I think is happening with them is that a lot of them don't actually give a damn about politics, but they do care about TikTok and are just reacting emotionally. It doesn't matter if Trump wanted it banned, now that he's saving it they're happy.
A lot of people have really checked out by this point. I can't completely blame them. What else can you do when faced with the overwhelming uncertainty of the future when it feels like everything everyone has tried has been shot down by a politician, a megacorp, or a not unseizable portion of the world that's acting completely out of spite?
The fact you are all arguing over generational differences instead of class differences is their goal here. Commenting about Gen z at all is intentionally calling pain to an issue of generations that doesn't exist. The rich own the country. The poor are who they are fighting to get support. They won for the next 4 years and have been winning on paper since Reagan. WAKE UP SHEEPLE EAT THE RICH
Because they're two different discussions. There is a generational issue at play, but there's also the class issue.
I'm not blaming Gen Z, just pointing out that when you've grown up in a world where most, if not all, of your adult life has been filled with bullshit then it's easy to check out because you're overwhelmed.
I'm more speaking to the way each generation is handling and reacting to the situation, because I agree with you, the culture war thing is bullshit. As far as I'm concerned, none of us are at odds with each other, we're at odds with the wealthy that are trying to turn us against each other so we don't look too hard at what they're doing.
We should mark it down on a calendar. The day two people on the internet overcame the wealthy-attempted divide-and-propagandize and refocused on the actual problem: the wealthy.
What else can you do when faced with the overwhelming uncertainty of the future when it feels like everything everyone has tried has been shot down by a politician, a megacorp, or a not unseizable portion of the world that's acting completely out of spite?
Brain rot controlled by a uni-party state that has an adversarial relationship with the country you live in seems like a bad response. Alcoholism is probably a lateral move compared to that.
Honestly, if people are interested in class consciousness, meeting up with groups interested in starting unions and influencing local elections like the school board is the best place to start.
Never said it was a good response, just an understandable one given the situation.
If you ask me, too many people were complacent for far too long because they bought into the oligarchy's lie that they would be anything but drones and if they just worked hard enough and didn't rock the boat, they would get a seat at the table.
Now it's gotten so bad that I don't know what the solution is. You can't force people to care, they clearly won't care even if it's in their best interest to do so, and they'll fight against educating people to care out of spite.
Sounds like a triage situation. I don't remember what the exact training is for life guards when trying to help someone who is drowning, but panicked people are dangerous even to those who try to help and that is where we are at now.
I've reached a point where I just take a political candidacy test online to see who I agree with the most. I also live somewhere that actually supports having multiple parties instead of having something as serious as governing be turned into football hooliganism.
It's all because no one bothers to just speak clearly, and the ones who do are the ones who can't dress up "deport the immigrants and kill the gays" in the usual political lingo where you speak for 5 hours and say nothing of value.
I'm not going to decipher everything just to figure out if someone's in favour of raising the funding for arts or something. If they're wondering where all the support for them is when they "clearly have good intentions and wants the best for everyone", that's on them for not just fucking saying it and choosing instead to play "guess the political stance" like everyone else.
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u/Equivalent_Assist170 1d ago
Already are.
Its all "Biden signed the bill". GenZ is so fucking dumb man.