_“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”_ -George Orwell
Well he forgot to mention how that was false lol Edit 🤡🤓👶🏻🦧 : hE sAiD "iMaGiNeS" iTsElF tOoOO bEeEe mOrE iNtElLiGeNt - chuggs : 🍼🍼🍼🍼 Okay He forgot to explain how each generation *imagining* itself to be more intelligent than the one that came before it and wiser than those coming after is a fallacious presumption all generations make. LOL Also this orwell quote along with most of the statements by older generations mentioned in the video is irrelevant to the point this video wants to make, If a generation that comes after yóu observed at statistical level starts to consume more tobacco than yóur generation and yóu put out an article pointing it out, it's not "blaming" the younger generation is it ? and neither is it some conventional old school outdated wisdom that doesn't belong in modern world, not to forget those 1993 1950s and 1933 quotes were truly spot on and real world impact of whatever that was happening that the authors of those articles were criticising can still be felt to this day, also everyone starts to think like their grandpa/grandma once they are old enough to loose the drive, energy and purpose to fohk around like they did in their teens and then they have a list full of regrets, embaressing moments, illnesses and advices so, Yeah older generations are wiser and younger generations are more intelligent and orwellçúçks can chill out because neither the video nor orwell cared to explain older generations being concerned about leaving the world into the hands of younger generations was nonsensical and based on impracticality
@@fritzier5475 Honestly, we are moving beyond 1984 and entering Brave New World territory, you should read that book, much more accurate to where we are now.
I actually love the 20 BC quote. "We suck because our parents suck, and our kids will only get worse." Truly, the logical conclusion of this line of reasoning.
I remember reading this opinion piece in a newspaper a few years ago complaining about “why can’t young people cook?” then within the first few paragraphs mention “in my day, we would learn from our parents”… Bruh.
@@Discount-Stonks That's hilarious- What do they expect the younger generation to do?? Be born with the ability to cook? Like sure- A lot of people will just teach themselves if they have to, but you can't expect people to know a skill they weren't taught from the moment they leave the womb
Interestingly, the issue as highlighted with the coming examples of other replies, they didn't raise the generation. The one's who complain mark themselves out as the problem.
This reminds me about what I think the first boomer humor art was. In my head, it dates back to thousands of years ago and mocks the upright walking generation. It consists of three pictures, one depicting the old generation, the second depicting the new upright walkers, and the third depicting a man who walks with his back fully back. The caption reads "our future?"
35 CE: Many People Of The Youth Are Following A Man Who Has No Father. Their Excuse Is That The Man Spoke As A Baby. ABSOLUTE BS!!!.-Jizi 13 BCE-47 CE.
Mother is right. Do the dishes and await the demographic and cultural collapse your peers have already set in train. She might however consider that it was her and maybe her parents generation that hid all the signposts.
The best teacher is 2nd hand experience. My parents always talked about money when I was a kid, and now I'm looking at retiring in my 40's with a house and kids because I paid attention.
another example: Gen Z person eats an orange. He thinks it’s a tasty fruit. Gen Alpha kid a few years later eats an apple instead of an orange. The Gen Z person gets infuriated that the Gen Alpha kid does not eat the orange but rather the apple, as he hates apples, complaining that Gen Alpha is doomed.
Wth that 'cool quote' is contradiction to itself 😂, because it stands, that it found the pattern! (there is pattern, we are in Cage of our century and our environment (thats what i think (dialectical materialism)(Just Google dialectical materialism) )
@@GoblinKingTheSecond bruh, you can write a pattern to everything. Pattern is such a vague thing. But anyway, mb the mf thinks he's so special, like *no one* ever found the pattern, but him. Kinda edgy this way. Also idc about your thing, honestly. You didn't describe it barely good, so it just sounds like another edgy thing. I won't bother googling it, just cause it sounds basic? Duh, environment plays big role in shaping a human. And duh, we live in a century and can't time travel and prob won't live to the next. If it means like, trapped in environment of a generation. Then yeah, it's obvious, duh. It's probably more, complex, but I'm not curious enough about it.
@@fenrix155 bcs some people love to throw their problems at other people so they get loosen on their back, by striking their mental problem at their kids makes them relieved.
Yup. The meme where parent says "I hope my kids will have better life" and 15 years later "these kids live on easy mode. Spoiled brats!" Is really relatable. Each generation see throught their youth filter. You think that things should be "like in the old good days" 30 years later another generation thinks the same, and 30 years later another one...
Parents of the first year: Always eating that forbidden apple (Bible Version) Or Parents of the first generation: Always Standing on 2 legs. (Evolution Version)
I like the fact when someone adds “the world will end because of you” Or “The world will end because of them” But bruh- what can end the world IS Planet Earth GETTING WIPED OUT. But you can’t say “this is all your fault” if the sun wiped the planet out 💀
@@JayEverdeenValentine Last words of the older generation being blown off the planet: "I knew nothin' good would come o' you whippersnappers an' yer flyin' machines!"
The 1790 one actually interests me. Its kinda like the people who say video games are corrupting the youth or that too much violent tv makes kids violent
iv heard vidoe games and tv rot you brian before not from my parents but from others and I new my grandfather used to talk about how his parents said that listing to the radio was also bad for you brian and after watching this video i guese they thought reading to many books and novels did that aswell very interesting considering now days schools plead with kids to read more as we know it actually benefits people to read fiction
The issue of people believing they are a genius rather than realizing everyone, no matter age, no matter “intelligence”, always has something to learn.
It’s funny how some people joke about people who say “I was born in the wrong generation” and how they should be happy with what they have, but then do stuff like this. It’s like punching someone and then act surprised when they are suddenly afraid of you.
This is so true. I was back home in my holidays recently and I’d spend a day alone enjoying myself (playing with my dog, reading and listening to music) my Mum would come home and say “It’s ridiculous you’ve done nothing all day.” And I’m like “Is it? I’m literally on holiday. This house is amazing. We have a great garden in the countryside. It’s summer and I love my dog.” It’s like don’t you want me to enjoy being here? She expected me to spend all day rushing around cleaning, tidying and running errands for some unknown arbitrary reason. She was the same when I was a teen, as if her mission was to always make me earn my place by doing tonnes of hard domestic work (which I rarely did, except basics like doing the dishes and walking the dog etc.) and whenever I didn’t do something she’d lambast me. “Mum I’ve had a happy day is that so bad?” Ironically she wants me to have a happy life but I guess in some other way?
@@doctornov7 I see your point and I understand how you feel, but maybe what your mom wants is help. I'm a parent and I try not to overwork myself but I constantly feel crushed under the weight of my responsibilities. Holidays don't just happen. Someone is doing the work and it's almost always the women, especially moms.
Well, no, they aren't blaming themselves. They're blaming the kids for sure, parenting isn't a reliable factor to for guessing how people turn out, we can all make our own choices. Older generations do this because it's the instinct of the old to "fix" the young, or to help them avoid things they see as pitfalls.
I'm not saying they're right about what's a fault and what isn't. It's Just that it's more nuanced than people who are subconsciously selling themselves out some how
Well, theatre back in the day was full with sex and fart humor. With social media I am very biased against it, because I used to be addicted to it and it just made me depressed. Deleting my Twitter and Insta accounts was the best decision I made in a long time.
"It's because you're always on that damn phone!" "It's by cause of those damned novels!" i meeean long exposure to social media does cause your mental health to go down into the pits, sooo... but come on, really? Yeah, I'm sure that's the reason why we have a bad economy and global warming... right... totally wasn't already a problem b4 phones..... it just seems like they put the blame of huge long-standing problems on things they don't understand. awareness brings change.
Honestly, it brings me great comfort that the dynamic between younger and older generations seems to have remained largerly the same throughout written history. Reminds you that we have always been of the same people, just in different circumstances
My father has always been fantastic when it comes to this. When people try to say to him "kids these days", my darling Dad responds "they're bloody great, aren't they?" Couldn't ask for a better father.
I am 32. When I was 28 I went through an experience of going back to university. So I studied with kids that were 10 years younger than me. I was fearful that they might not be welcoming of me, but it turned out to be an awesome experience. I found that they were open minded to new ideas, and found many common interests. The discussion here reminded of this.
@@Agus-bg9ob that's so nice of them, and so awesome of your grandmother to go to college and study, very ambitious and strong. I also graduated from the Sociology Department but had a change of heart after changing jobs more than once and not finding myself and my purpose, and then went to college, the kids were awesome and I have many friends now, and we have conversations easily ❤ I can understand their interests and find many common topics to talk about. I don't regret this experience ❤🧡
As a college student, I’m friends with many of the older generation students, and they’re all awesome. The professors at my college are awesome, too. They actually care about the younger generation and want to do what they can to help them grow. I’m very blessed to go to this college.
I love the 1790 quote. It’s actually weirdly comforting to know that us adults have been whining about popular entertainment “corrupting the children” for forever now, like the parents who wasted a whole quarter-century rallying against video games and hip-hop.
To be fair, hip-hop's basis is gang subculture and the lyrics consist a lot with having sex, dealing drugs, and shooting people, and is made by people who have done one or all of those things.
@@bud389The first sex joke in Romeo and Juliet is on the second page. Also, there’s a lot of stabbing and drinking and dancing and generally disrespecting your parents’ wishes.
They were right. Much of popular entertainment does corrupt people by promoting immodesty, lust, fornication, intoxication, boasting, selfishness, greed, theft, pride, arrogance, narcissism, rebellion against parents and civil authority, hatred of neighbors and civil society, murder, sodomy.
Parents to their kids: "You're worthless. You'll never amount to anything. When I was your age I accomplished so many things!" Also parents to their kids: "Getting older is terrible. Your body hurts constantly, you never get to have fun. Enjoy your youth while you can!" Parents to themselves: "Why do these kids lack ambition? They just want to be children forever. What's wrong with them?"
I think the best "history repeats itself" kind of sentiment is the "video games make people violent" one. Go back half a generation and it's violent movies. Go back a full generation and it's music. Go back four generations and its books. Go back centuries and it was about scripture and sermons. I suppose it's human nature to try and find scapegoats for perceived flaws instead of recognizing them as part of our human nature.
exactly. Humans are not perfect, but somehow, we always find a way to hate on younger generations, like we never made mistakes or had different, new things!
I'm almost 30 and pretty much all of my friends love talking about how bad today's kids are compared to us. It's a never-ending cycle. Update: yesterday on the bus two men were talking about the new gen: how weird they are, how they only know tiktok and games and you can't tell "what they are". One of them said he was born in 1993, and the other one was younger than him.
@@souravupadhyay2029 there has definitely been shittier times growing up, when you had to work hard to stay alive and pray to god you don't get sick because there isn't really any medicine
"Kids these days go farming and waiting for stuffs to grow. They don't know how it feels like to nearly died along with your comrades during a mammoth hunt. This generation is doomed." (Grogg The Caveman, a translated painting in a cave hidden from the public)
this is exactly why gen alpha is *not* doomed. you hear all this talk about how this is the end, that gen alpha is becoming stupider by the second, but gen alpha people are still kids. i completely trust that they will grow up, and they will learn. you hear all this talk about it right now, but give them time. humanity never changes, and soon enough we will be ridiculing the next generation.
I recently turned 30 and it's been quite depressing to see people around my age be so strict on the younger ones, forgetting how it was to be young just yesterday
@@andrewjones4774 they really arent, considering the oldest of us are like 26. for some reason people seem to forget how far the age ranges span out and just shove us all into one category.
@@andrewjones4774 I’m a millennial, but on the cusp of millennial and gen Z, so I can relate to both, but I still see some differences. Mostly in mindset, and certain values, but tbf, I think that could be due to immaturity on Gen Z’s part, cuz they’re still really young, and I know for a fact that millennials acted similarly when we were younger, we just had different things going on at the time.
Right? i saw a kid on a leash the other day 😕 your child isn’t a dog… I wanted to give that mom a tongue lashing, but I had hurt my ankle and wouldn’t have been able to run away in case someone got mad at me 😅
@@ilikefire9710 You: *Wanted to complain, but was to physically injured to run from a lady with a child in tow.* I'll take shit that didn't happen for 400$ Alex.
@@IsaButecosWhen from a young age someone is taught that adults know best and are always right, only to go out into the world to find that nobody knows what they are doing 50% of the time, it may not be as quickly obvious as you think.
I appreciate Aristotle for actually figuring out that the reason why younger people are bad at a lot of things is because, yep, they’re young. They’re inexperienced. Better yet, he’s commenting not on a generational difference but on something that’s consistent in all generations. It’s still hyperbolic of course, but the principle’s right at least, more than can be said for anything else here
A lot of the latter quotes are simply talking about how the young lack wisdom and experience, which is true. It didn’t say that this generation was better than the other.
Its different because Alpha actually is receiving brain rot. Schools are having to create "tablet time" and specialized classrooms because all of these kids that are constsntly on TikTok and RUclips shorts. Gen Alpha literally is rotting their own brains thanks to their Gen Z parents. Well, at least the parents that dont care. The Gen Z kids who were also glued to their phones all the time and you know exactly who. Cant say theyre all doing it but its definitely a problem. Look up "gen alpha ipad kid". They sit hunched over all day on a tablet watching 30 second videos giving them a constant dopamine hit. If zoos have to ban phones because of TikTok rotting gorillas and chimps brains its definitely rotting little kids brains.
Yep, just as I thought. I'm 53 and hear this sort of thing mostly from the boomer generation. Truth is each generation has its own set of challenges and we are not adults on our 18th birthday. Growing up takes a lifetime.
What I found interesting was how they got more and more and more truthful as they went back further in time. Like, the final one isn’t even hateful it’s just an accepted moral principal
My favourite is from an Assyrian stone tablet in 2800 BC. "Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.” It's literally the ancient version of "everyone wants to start a podcast"
As a millennial, I can safely say I’m tired of hearing, “kids don’t want to work anymore,” when there are generations of newspaper clippings declaring the same thing.
Yeah, it’s almost like this whole “work to survive” thing is and has always been a bum deal Edit: people in this thread really still be buying into the 4000 year old propaganda kings came up with to get their subjects to build their castles for them. Y’all getting scammed, guys. Work (as in value-adding labor) will always exist and always have a place in the world, yes, but job culture? That shit is a scam
Completely true for every single human being, no matter what part of the world. Parents complain about same thing in different languages in different nations.
it's because young people suck and you don't realize your faults until you're older and try to point them out to the next generation who doesn't listen or care until they're in your shoes and the cycle continues
@@naplzt4k Yeah. That seems like it. But all in all Humanity is progressing. The world is quite peaceful, than it has ever been. Inventions are being made, and we are preparing for Space. I believe the next generation will be smarter and better than me. Like every generation has been better than the previous generation, if we exclude our personal mindset and look at the reality.
Three big factors for this are: how we translate stuff, how we perceive old language as more sophisticated, and also how as you go back in time the barrier to literacy gets higher, meaning only the more fancy folk would be writing
@@craftahnah older texts seem sophisticated just because the people who knew how to write were either really rich or had a job that requores you to know how to write. The poor people didn't knwo how to read or write for like 99% of hiatory
I’m only 27 but I constantly see people my age post about how the younger generation is stupid. I don’t understand how they completely forgot what adolescence was like. I remember a kid crushing up candy and snorting it in 7th grade. I remember a trend where people were lighting themselves on fire and running to pools before it hurt too much. Some kids make dumb choices and it doesn’t matter what generation they’re from. But I’m also a teacher and I’m constantly amazed by how resourceful and clever and self-aware kids are now. I’ve worked with kids who created their own servers to bypass the district blocking Minecraft. I’ve worked with kids who have as much emotional intelligence as I had only a few years ago and reflect on why they behave in certain ways. I work with kids who are more understanding and thoughtful about the world than I was at their age. Not only is the next generation doing incredibly well with what they have, but they’re even better than I was and THATS THE WHOLE POINT. Why would you want them to suffer and struggle the ways you did? Life will always have enough hardship. You don’t need to give them more. You need to give them the tools you wish you had to get through that hardship. That’s how we create progress.
We're the generation that invented planking (I think) and shat on Justin Bieber for no reason. Not to mention that we sorta encouraged the older generation to make Facebook accounts and looked how that turned out. We should be ashamed!
At 27 you are still part of the young generation so is hard to see outside the wall, but the main problem is the same back then as right now, things keep getting worst, even you at 27 can see, maybe, how your generation was one thing and the one arriving now are diferent, your generation was one of the worst ever, this new one is even worst... can you imagine the next ? That's the thing that should worry people not the other parts.
the reality of the situation is that once people figure out how stupid they were when they were younger, they forsake their younger selves because they are embarrassed. They then see themselves in the next generation and project their self hate onto them. every generation is likely to be this way so long as humans value their appearance more than admitting their mistakes. only humility will save us.
Old people want to make themselves feel better, more deserving and distract themselves from their own flaws by pointing fingers at others, and there just happens to be people who have an aspect to them that now they despised in themselves and can project onto, and because they despised their younger selves, they refuse to give younger people any of the respect they themselves want, even if they themselves don’t have much to deserve it other than being older at times
Well if you’re wise enough to know that your past self was reckless and would have been better off being less reckless, isn’t it more altruistic to want to keep the youth on more responsible paths? I’m sure there’s plenty of self loathing/projecting going on. But it doesn’t change anything about the nature of human beings which we learn more of with age. The young *will* divert from tradition at their own risk.
I remember thinking I knew everything at 15. Then I realized how stupid that was when I turned 25, I knew it all at 25. Then I turned 35 and again. So I saw the pattern. So I look forward to 45 soon so I can reflect back on what I’ve learned in my past. It would definitely be helpful if the older generation coached the younger generation instead of just blaming them.
Exactly I hate old people being all judgy or anyone being really judgy in general if you aren't or haven't been in that situation you shouldn't be so harsh on them
I mean, the older generation _raised_ the younger one. If the "coaching" (parenting) they already provided gave rise to these alleged trainwrecks of human beings, why would more of it be a good thing?
@@thomasprislacjr.4063 wisdom can be shared in a respectful loving and non-judgmental way. That’s good coaching, good teaching. Just depends on the intent of the person doing the teaching.
*Older generations and younger generations will never learn how to become a better person themselves. This is the endless vicious cycle of hatred, injustice and darkness.*
At least in Mexico this concept of rebellious youth began with our parents (I am gen z so my parents are gen x) considering that some of my relatives got pregnant At really young ages and that my dad dropped out of high school
A good audiobook from a psychologist 👩⚕️ stated that our memories tend to tactically forge a more positive image of what we were like when we were young, repressing certain mistakes. This in turn, always leads to us thinking that we had it together more than any other subsequent generation. 😮
Well psychology is mostly quackery combined with begging the question psychologists use to inject crazy schizophrenics with insulin to get them comatose without realizing that this process was slowly killing them. This procedure won the Nobel prize in medicine.
Meanwhile, when I worked as a cashier I wondered why most of the middle schoolers were literally the most polite customers ever. I was a little shit when I was 12, and yet I've seen so many kids that age who are _so formal and polite_ it almost freaks me out. Same with college students, I generally find they're very polite. When I worked at a cafe in a college campus for half a year, I don't recall having a single rude customer that whole time, which is insane because at any other job I would have at least one story per week if not per day.
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Lol absolutely untrue here in Hungary. Most college students are disrespectful and don't know any formal stuff, modesty. And I say that as an university student. Even worse for younger generation in middle schools. I see and hear them every day, interacting with older generations. It's a shame. But I'm glad for you, whenever you're that things are different there.
To me, college students seem very passive aggressive. Never outright rude but they know exactly how to give off that "I'm better than you because you work a service job." vibe.
This was my experience, too. The rudest customers I've ever had have always been Gen X or older. I've seen plenty of very nice older people but a notable portion of them are like toddlers or are straight up psychologically (a few times physically) abusive if they don't get their 25 cent discount or something. I've personally never seen a younger person act so intensely to something like that. Do they get grumpy or rude sometimes? Absolutely. But never to the same degree that I've seen in older people.
I was reading The book of Enoch, which is one of the oldest known books. There's a point where Enoch complains about how the invention of writing has degraded society. His reasoning is that when you have only oral tradition then the only way to learn is by building a relationship with your elders, but now that we have writing the younger generation has knowledge without relationship and respect for their elders. He's literally saying "Kids these days spend too much time on their tablets". 😅
300 BC: "them kids these days spend too much time on their books" 2023 AD " them kids these days spend too much time on their tablets" The more things change...the more they stay the same XD.
I mean he's not to far off though...it may not be true for most at the time (as with anything new and innovative) But as time has gone on personal relationships are faltering more and more due to the needs of humanity being met without interaction. For one you can get groceries delivered to your door via contactless delivery.
@@TiberusVit’s a huge jump to go from “them kids can learn without me” to “humanity can simply meet their needs without any contact”. A lot of other factors more directly responsible need to be taken into account (e.g. a society that incentivizes quick, cheap dopamine hits). Moreover, complaining about books is the biggest L; the printing press is considered to be one of greatest inventions, one that really accelerated our development, perhaps second only to the transistor. Anyway, all of this is to say that it takes a lot more than technological progress to reach a society where all needs are met without actual human contact.
My grandma: "women nowadays don't hug their children, they don't love them" Also my grandma's family: abuses, use of alcohol and "go get my cigarettes, child" at 10PM in winter
I remember walking into my ethics class in college on the first day and this quote was on the board: “Stop worrying about the younger generation. They’re going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.” Always stuck with me
As a millennial I think we have reached an inversion point. I can't be bothered worrying about younger generations when boomers still exist. Whatever people said throughout history about the younger generations is true 100% about boomers even in their old age.
I half agree, nowadays some little sh*ts come and scream to my face profanities for literally nothing and if you hit them or talk back they are doubling down. The internet has taught them no consequences for their actions and sooner or later they learn the hard way. When I was a kid, I used to run on the other side of the road when an adult or group of adults were approaching. They never chased if you showed respect. We knew we could get beaten up and bullied or jumped on for our lunch money so we just kept distance and never dared sh*t talking them.
@MarxPopstar69 I mean, you can just not watch that particular stuff to be honest. It's not so much a "younger generation" issue as it is an internet issue, which is a different conversation.
I don't know, a generation of kids as young as 16 had to go fight in WW1, or be chimney sweeps or shit like that if they were born poor. Noat young people born poor today are working from 16 onwards, seems only rich kids have the luxery of young and immature ibto their 20s and beyond...
@MarxPopstar69 its not even young people anymore parents posting naked pics of their babies online give it 20 years or so and thats gonna ruine someone life wouldn't be surprised if in the next decades we have a shit ton of laws about protecting childeren online and what you can and cann not post
The fact that 60 year olds in the 1960's hated on boomers the same way boomers hate on gen Z is both ironic and hilarious Edit: wth how did I get 4.5k likes
Boomers are right gen z is fucking awfull. They dont even know if they are a boy or girl and im saying that as a 23 year old. Doesnt mean that boomers arent fucking brats being able to buy a home at 21. Theres a reason the greatest generation is called that way
@@shiverfan4867..millennials, Z, what's the difference really both are lazy and easily offended by everything...... But I love being an Xer and watching the war between the boomers and silly millies😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
In this case it seems the 60 year olds from the 60's were right, because Boomers are the most entitled and parasitic generation. They were given everything in a silver plate and they have the Gaul to look down on the rest of us.
I sent this to a group chat with my mother and grandmother in it. Oddly enough, they both loved it. I'm glad my family appreciates my abilities, and still gives me good advice
I remember hearing a quote from a teacher, maybe over 100 years ago, saying something like " It's sad to see all of these children learning how to write only on paper and not the vastly more useful skill of writing with chalk on a blackboard"
Thing is, whoever said this wasnt wrong. Paper is wasteful AF. Kids SHOULD be learning how to write with easily erasable materials. I have kids... and the amount of paper my kids have sent home from school is straight up shameful. SO. MUCH. WASTED. PAPER. and thats just my kid. Theres a whole class getting the same. And a whole grade. And a whole school. They go through TONS per year, im sure. But yet we have lil eco gremlins screeching at us about plastic blah blah... but we refuse to just go back to how they used to do it? The older generations did it right. Consumer generations....(hint: us).... are NOT.
As a teacher, it bothers me when I hear other teachers complain about "Today's kids." Not only is complaining about kids without knowing what's going on in their lives (sometimes they do), but it's our job to love them and help them develop, not talk smack behind their backs. All of us screwed up as kids, but we expect kids around us to live up to some template we have as to how kids "should" be, based on a poorly-remembered and rose-tinted view ofnourselves as kids.
I remember in high school almost 40 years ago now, two or three teachers told classes I was in "you are the worst class I've ever had to deal with." Talking smack behind their back might be better than talking smack to their faces.
@jb888888888 That it valid, but it would be healthier to express frustrations with behaviors in the class and how they impact you rather than to give the class a generalized negative statement. That teacher did not approach the situation in a good way at all.
I had a teacher that literally was talking to another one just a couple minutes before class started and she got mad at this boy who was in my class who is "bad" it just seemed like he couldn't sit still and was just hyper active. Maybe he had ADHD I'm not sure. But she said and I quote, "He's so stupid." To another teacher and rolled her eyes I will never forget that. Ik some terrible things happened in her life at that moment but that is no excuse how she treated me whem I was younger and how she teated the other she favortized. Like a girl made a mistake and didn't save it and she told her it was fine and whem I told her I made a mistake and didn't aave it she yelled at me and we were alone and I'm not gone lie I lowkey got scared and she walked out and left me in the room and I almost cried. Because I felt so bad for making a mistake. She told the girl a couple seconds ago that it was okay but she started yelling at me jumping down my throat telling me she hopes that I had a backup and left me in a room alone. That has hsunted me into my adult life and now I'm nervous about asking for help and making mistakes. I try and get over it but it's hard. Ik it sounds childish but I was in like the 6th, 7th or 8th grade at the time. I watched her and other teachers talk about us behind their back because the great majority were talking loudly that they didn't think anyone would notice. She was a terrible teacher and mean asf for just no reason. The one's she favored could do a whole lot but the ones she didn't couldn't do anything. My and my partner for the school newspaper made a mistake by reading something inappropriate about zodiac signs while we were surfing the web for zodiac information. [The school didn't have child privacy lock or whatever on to keep you from seeing inappropriate images which now that I think about it seems like majorly the school fault not ours] and we didn't mean any harm by it and didn't even know what it meant at the time and she made us literally sit out for the entire semester and when I asked her could I do something to contribute to class she said, "No." Like a high school mean girl. I hate to describe that as her personality but that is how a lot of our female teachers were. I was bullied as a child and it still sticks with me no matter hoe hard I try and shake it and the teachers especially her didn't make it any better. I could say her name a put her on blast but I'm not going too. I could be wrong and it could be my fault but who knows. I just know I felt bullied by my teachers and they never stopped the kids from bullying me but were quick to jump on me and get me in trouble for the slightest offense. They are part of the reason why I have trouble asking for help and talking to people because I got shut down and felt I couldn't approach them because of how they treated me versus other students who were younger than me and more popular. Highschool wasn't any better. All my teacher were pretty cold and mean and unreachable. The students were majority bullies and other councilors were just like them and sided with the popular kids more often than not. When I tried ti get a teacher to make a boy stop picking on me she said, "I can't control everyone and I can't make people stop doing anything. It's best to just ignore them." "I'm not gonna stop my class for every offense." And they doubled down on teasing me when she said that. Everyday I tried to get help and everyday I got the same response. No help at all and people wondered why I was so defensive and snappy and I didn't smile because everyone bothered me and no one helped me. Even when I looked to my teachers for help they just sat back and ket things happen. And I had her at the beginning of the day as my first class. So imsgine hoe that affected my view for the rest of the day. I have always been a senesitivr and gentle person but that changed because people always hurt me. I'm still sensitive and nice but I am just extremely gated. I don't even ket my friends close or other tell my parents what bothers me because I don't feel like I can trust anyone but myself. God I think I need to see a therapist, now that I'm looking back on this whole situation and what I typed. Even though I'm sure it won't change anything.
I’m an older generation and I hate when people start hating on young people just because they are young. It’s ridiculous. Nonetheless a lot of people do it to feel good about themselves
I don’t hate on younger generations, but I have seen a decline in manners and respect towards older people. I am close to my 30s and I don’t remember more kids than on my teenage years being this mean or “heartless” towards adults.
And now We, Gen Z getting all hate and blames from the older generation, they told us how ungrateful, stupid, etc. Yet they ask us to solve all those problems they created. Damn
hey we arent clear either, there are some of us i see hating on gen Alpha, make sure to stay strong, keep your brain functioning, and dont become one of them
@eugenekrabs141 Honestly, as a Gen Z, I have hope for Gen Alpha, and while I hate it when anyone says “oh, Gen Alpha is doomed”, it irks me even more when it’s a Gen Z saying that. Like, the oldest ones are only just becoming teenagers (or not - still unsure about whether Alpha started in ‘10 or ‘12) and it seems like a lot of the slander boils down to “skibidi toilet” or “they’re all iPad kids” (which is pretty false) or whatever. Obviously there’s a lot of flaws with them - as there are with any generation - but come on, can we let them grow up first, _please._
I'm Millennial, and I've pledged to myself that I will never do that to a younger generation. *Never; I'd rather die.* In fact, that's because we got the blame game even worse from the Baby Boomers, and guess what? I've been seeing the headlines of Gen Z stomping out toxic workplace trends, voting more than everyone else, and even putting institutions like churches and the military into crisis mode by not going to them. Your generation is what I wish mine was when we hit adulthood.
"When people demand respect for who or what they are and what they have done for others rather than what they have done for you they show themselves lacking the wisdom to deserve it." ~ My great grandmother to me after telling me someone demanding respect for their age was full of shit, she was 78 at the time She also taught me the smallest thing you can do for someone is be polite when it would be easy to be rude, yet it earns you the most respect. You'd be amazed how far you can get in life by being polite.
My favorite one of these examples I saw somewhere was this one lady in ancient China complaining that kids are so entitled by how easy it is to read/write books nowadays, they’ll never know to difficulties of using clay tablets like I had to do.
I really like the irony that older adults trashing on younger generations forget that they are the ones that raised these "spoiled" children. Like imagine constantly feeding your child with technology unsupervised to make them shut up and have the audacity to complain about their behaviors. Bad adults raise bad kids.
@@youdontneedtoknow7548The point of the original comment was giving them unsupervised access to things like the internet because they didn't want to bother with interacting with their kids shouldn't complain about their children being spoiled and being on their iPads all day.
@@albertxion513The TV filled this in before, as did video games. This isn’t new. But access to limitless “information” is deranging kids and young adults. Of all the generations cited in this video, how many are tampering with their hormones and cutting their genitals off?
I remember reading somewhere that Ancient Egyptians complained about the younger generation using clay tablets to write lists down rather than using their brains to remembering it. 😅
I'm 57 and have an 18 year old son who's smarter, more grown up and far more switched on as I ever was when I was 18, to say all kids are the same is absolutely stupid, I have friends the same age as me who are still making the same mistakes as when we were kids, It always strikes me when my generation speak about wasted youth it says far more about their anger at growing old than the state of our youth.
It's not blame. It's greed. "You aren't doing enough for me". We use our own experiences to judge others assuming that they have not had the same troubles and come up with different choices. We cannot even fathom a choice other than our own.
@@danielthedudeSo much this. How many so-called scholars and sages only got anywhere near as well regarded as they were because entirely too many people put entirely too much value on the bitter bitching of septuagenarians for no reason but they lived long enough to get that old in the first place? Certainly half of the “great ancient philosophers” had very little to say that was remotely novel even in their own time, and even less that had so much as an iota of value even for philosophy.
Also, some of these statements were just old people and people in authority being salty that they weren’t just being given blind respect. These were times when you were deemed worthy of respect simply for being old. While that may have actually held more weight back then due to shorter lifespans and slower advances in technology and lifestyle, nowadays it’s stupid to hold someone in esteem for just existing a little longer. These days any simpleton asshole can have a long life. A lot of older folks have a bad attitude because that was the era they grew up in, where you respect your elders no matter what, no matter the circumstances. They’re just mad that we don’t blindly suck them off for the sake of being old and don’t let their willful ignorance slide.
@@mckinnonwolf7877 I guess you hold no respect for anyone, not even your own parents. No surprise there. The problem with Gen Y and Z is that they think the world owes them a favour. I am actually ashamed of my generation (Millennials) and the fact that they have caused the decline in humanity across the globe over the past decade.
The youth is forced to deal with the crap placed on them by their parents and grandparents, but somehow, it’s always their fault. It’s been that way forever and it will continue to be that way.
Given the amount of awareness we've got about the issue, maybe, if I were to be hopeful, we'll be able to break the cycle when it's our turn to be the parents
Honestly Gen Z is the first generation i've seen that cares enough to break that generational trauma, like of course not everyone is doing it but a huge part of it is.
I remember reading a sentence written in Arabic on a wall, which said "They gave us a ruined world and said [to the youth] you are a failure generation"
The reason adults blame younger generations is simple. As time goes on, developments will be made to make life easier than it was for the previous generation. Not only this, but styles, stereotypes, etc all change. Adults see kids with an easier life than them complaining, and think that their spoiled. The thing is, that complaining is likely a huge reason society is gonna continue to make inventions and gadgets that can make life easier for newer generations. If no one complained, no one would want anything to get better.
In addition to this, I feel as if the unknown element of a new technology's effect over time creates a certain wariness in people. Also, in order to cope with the massive amount of hardship the average person goes through in life, our brains tend to think fondly about certain things that caused said hardship. When you see a new generation that doesn't have to deal with them, you think of yourself not going through things that have defined your life. Which leads naturally to many of the things you hear about the younger generations being weaker and such.
@@Reveticatei agree. I think that we (as humans) are not getting worse, we are just changing... like all the contest around us, but people before that see the context they lived in changed so brutally do not accept it, like a negation of the fall of all the stuff that made their mind be shaped like that and this actually keeps creating the generations gap. During the human evolution there were always been few people who accepted this in their little circle but the majority just can't i see ah ah.
Yeah, but as a parent, we are 1000% blamed and get to be treated like assholes for having entitled brats for kids. So, no. Im gunna give my kids a dose of persepctive because they really aint got it THAT bad. This is why history and generational wisdom is IMPORTANT. The stupidest of children ignore it... and then they turn into dumbass narcissistic adults noone likes.
@@P.e.m.a.my generation is often blamed for not working hard enough because my parents (boomer generation) could afford a house when they were in their 30's and my generation should just work harder. But that sentiment ignores changed variables. Whilst wages have gone up 30% in the past 40 years, real-estate became 430% more expensive! I would literally have to work 95 hours a week to be able to afford that. Sorry but I work to live! I don't live to work! Then I see the older generation complaining that we're spoiled snowflakes that only eat avocado toast and luxury coffee and that that is why we can't afford anything! Reality is the opposite tho... avocado toast and luxury coffee is a small treat we buy ourselves to cope with life, cause we literally cannot afford anything else... it's an often completely misunderstood symptom of something much deeper!
I didn’t know they been saying the same since the 17th century EDIT : I knew that they been saying the same since the 60s but not it had that much time
You can even say it today with gen z towards gen alpha, we talk about how "this generation is doo.ed" because of all of these tiktok trends and brainrot.
I feel like it really is. The young almost always bring change, and the old almost always fear change because their ability to adapt to it declines with age. Change is also stressful, even if positive; the old have (generally) experienced more stress than the young just because they've lived for longer, therefore they have a stronger desire to avoid new stress than the young do. Change is instability, change is uncertainty, and getting old inevitably comes to a moment where you want your life to be the opposite - stable and peaceful, the vibe you just can't get when there's change happening around. It's somewhat like "tired adult is annoyed by a kid being energetic" situation, but on a larger, less momentary scale.
Yep. Even with TikTok and all that nonsense, there are still plenty of kids out there who are decent human beings. There's indecency in every generation, and the internet has done a wonderful job of letting us see that indecency. Too bad so many people have turned into angry, hate-filled individuals and express it so loudly on the internet. We need to be more positive and uplifting to each other. We're actually going to ger nowhere constantly bringing each other down.
Wisely spoken, every generation has its vices, and vitures. the best thing we can do is learn form each other and "hopefully" not make the same mistakes.
Kids today have been trained to be the perfect consumer, the perfect mob member of the mobiest of mentalities. The opposite of free thinking. The opposite of enlightenment. We are regressing in breeding.
The problem is anger baiting contents are so popular. Even on youtube recommended it is all about reactionary anti-something-ism takedown videos. Its so exhausting. Why can't we all talk about fun and beautiful things anymore???
I think that there is some truth to what Aristotle said. He wasn’t blaming young people, he was simply stating the fact that young people aren’t mature.
That's the way I took it too. Everyone just had this egotistical "My generation is better than the younger generation!" Talk, but this guy was just talking about young people in general. It wasn't, "This younger generation is more foolish!" But rather, "Young people are more foolish, regardless of the generation they come from, mine included."
Found this quote in a book once: "Adults are like butterflies; they have forgotten what it was like to be a caterpillar once." Edit: Comments section looks like classic internet Edit #2: This is just a quote I found in a book. Love how people are just assuming things like "why is this calling childhood good". It isn't even related. Exactly why this is blowing up is absolutely beyond me, let me go to fucking sleep ffs.
As someone in their 30's, I have heard this said regularly all through my life. I've heard it so often that even now, when people my own age are arrogantly dismissing entire future generations as lazy do-nothings that just want everything handed to them, all it ever does is dredge up memories in me about how my generation was spoken of like that. Still IS spoken of like that, even though we're all now in the work place, scratching a living like everyone else. Just yesterday, someone at work uttered this cringe-inducing sentiment, about how young people come to work and then quit soon afterwards. I couldn't help but ask him what he thought they did afterwards. The truth is, they probably went to find a different job, since this one sucks. His response was essentially to say that they probably just went home to play videogames in their parents house. It is astonishing to me that older people seem to think that the government just rolls out the red carpet for young people to do whatever they want, despite not being able to point to a single instance of it, never experiencing it when they were young, and not being able to take advantage of whatever imaginary system of overt welfare they seem to think kids these days live on. This is the US. One of the least socialised countries in the industrialised world. It is baffling how anyone deludes themselves into thinking that anyone other than the super rich get a free pass for anything.
I was born in 1997 don't really know what generation that makes me but definitely a bit younger. I was working at a tourism company for a few months and the managers scolded my ass, I'd have to get a permission to go to the bathroom, the managers would pick who got the best clients, the shift was 3 hours longer than initially stated, they blamed me for not getting a deal from poor, rude customers (even when I'd informed them about it to clear my side) they cut off the wifi connection at some point. They cut out more than the daily salary because I spent 2 hours with a clinet and his wife because the 3 of us didn't have 1 mutual language, so 1 party was always translating therefore taking more time, they cut off mlre than the daily salary because I arrived literally 1 minute late, they wouldn't take any feedback regarding my clients and tell me to be quiet during workshps. I'd attend when horribly sick to the point that i fainted at work, they shamed me for spending my day off with some of my coworkers on a boat trip. The reason I quit was because they told me they'd allow me to continue working for them but with no salary, and I'd only be making money off of deals, when I refused they berated me on how I was lazy, disrespectful and not wanting to work hard and that's why I wasn't able to make any deals like my coworkers. They said "you're too young to understand the value of money and ethics and how far respect to the older generations who know better than you can take you, you refuse to learn and you just want to be babied" no, you refused to teach me based on MY work experience, I'm the one sitting with the client and they deadass tell me noway the client said or did that. Sir, you go sit with the client then. They just wanted me to tell them that they were always right and I was always at fault. the manager once started an argument with me because I was excusing myself for a bathroom break but he didn't hear me. I asked again and to confirm I asked "did you hear me?" He berated me on how I was rude and how I should be more kind. Literally EVERYONE that worked with me dropped them while or after i did, apart from their 3 favorites, of course.
@maryamshaaban74 you are the first Generation Z. The cutoff is 1996. Also sorry you had yo deal with so much shit from those people. It's baffling how the older generations can see young people working in front of them and then call them lazy....
@@s70driver2005 thanks for the info and thank you for sympathizing. I'm still baffled by the fact that they cut off more than my daily salary because I worked MORE.
1000‰ true. Also, in regards to your last paragraph, USA is also full of people that consider "socialism" a bad thing without really knowing what it means, which is so sad.... considering people like this can vote. They are stuck on attacking anything that even remotely goes out of their comfort zone, because unknown = bad. SMDH.
I have to disagree. Millennials know full well what it's like to be blamed as a generation (millenials aren't buying houses, think they're too good for mayonnaise, are killing off the middle child by not having more than 1 or 2 kids, some of the most ridiculous ones I can recall), yet here we fucking go complaining about Gen Z/generalizing the whole generation whenever one teen makes a stupidly reasoned tiktok
I can't believe you left out my absolute favourite one about the younger generation relying too much on paper instead of good old fashioned engraved slabs.
Ah yes, rock sheets. Seems like a good idea, actually. Maybe one day there’s a way we can use ink on stone. Maybe we’ll just rely on modern tablets instead, I think I’ve seen an advertisement about it before
@@ocxtober31stxhave you ever blamed kids using tik tok? If yes, then you are definitely one of us blamer adults now. Unfortunately I did do such stuff, like mucking the Gen z for being so stupid and acting like they were animals.
@@Alwaysright42250 As a Gen Z teen, no, I don't blame kids using TikTok, I blame their parents and the platform as its own. Nowadays parents should learn from what happened with my generation, aka "cringe generation", and be more mindful about controlling kids activity in the internet in a healthy way. Kids raising it's their responsibility after all. Even though I'm not going to lie, sometimes I'm fearful of repeating that same mistake as a mother because of not understanding technology of my kids time, something I guess I must work on.
Couldn’t the complaints come from either people who have no kids of their own, or people who are perfectly happy with their own kids but are appalled by other young people in society, in effect complaining about how other kids are raised? It’s a funny thing how people here comment that ”funny how you complain about the youth you yourself raised” like, I’m sorry, did I personally raise this entire generation of kids singlehanded and therefore I’m not allowed to complain?
@@adamnilsson566 accountability. That's what matters. If parents can't take up the fact that they lack parenting skills, they end up with a spectrum of reasons which imply that their kid is the problem. No parent knows parenting completely. But no one can learn without accountability and conviction. And when parents don't have that trait, they end up as a parental failure blaming their inability on their kids.
@@ashwathks784 You seem to miss the point I'm trying to make, I'm not saying there aren't bad parents who complain about kids, I'm saying that throughout history, with all the complaining about "the young people today", it is entirely possible that some of the people complaining are either (voluntarily or involuntarily) child free, or they are good parents who are proud of their own children, but dislike how their kids peers act. This entire comments section seems to make fun of people complaining about young people as if every single person throughout the history of man has had children of their own, which they all failed to raise properly, and so no-one is allowed to complain because they are the problem. That is what I reacted to.
@@adamnilsson566 well the people who are commenting here, as I see, are products of the parental failures. These guys have pain and suffering in their hearts, that can't be put in words so easily. They deserve to say what they want to say. Nothing more and nothing less of what they think. What can you expect for people in pain to do? Suck up all the pain and have a good night sleep so easily? Only if it were that easy. There is an unbearable pain in a parental failure, mate. Try to understand it.
@@adamnilsson566 I respect you to you admitting that you reacted. But sometimes you gotta let people say whatever they want to, coz If they can't say what they want to, they will find another means of saying things, but it is not going to be pleasant.
I’m 38 years old and I’m already starting to see my fellow millennials do the whole “kids these days” stick. I will do my best to never be that kind of person. I remember what it was like to be young. You’re still figuring things out. You’re afraid. You’re anxious. And you’re still growing. Older generations are just way too hard on younger generations.
Yes, I see it, too. And I'm like did you forget how hard millennials were trashed on? Why continue the cycle instead of breaking it? I think that's every generations task to break the cycles that were damaging and upheld before.
But Bushbasher... Kids these days don't know how it was like to catch your first shiny pokemon, they all do the whole buy skin thing in their fancy computer online video entertainment games... It is an absolute travesty...
@@anahnnemus5187Or maybe it is part of a natural cycle. The young naturally breaks conformity, while the elders encourage conformity. I find it funny that no one questions whether this isn't just a natural part of being human?
200 years ago novels were seen as vectors of depravity and young people were discouraged from reading them. Jane Austen pokes fun at this in her novel Northanger Abbey, which also includes a scene in which an older couple decries what the 'youth of today' have become.
@@lemonadesaccounttm8721 Thy humor of thy is very of thy corruption so thy forth for thy must be thy for adding thy thy to every thy old of thy scentences Thy
This makes it clear that this concept has nothing to do with generational changes in society over time, it's simply the difference between adults and children. The amount of your childhood you forget by the time you're an adult has convinced people that they were never like that.
It doesn't make anything clear. It's just simple excerpts from each singular individual who wrote those articles. I certainly didn't forget my childhood, and it's not hard to see how social media negatively impacted gen z.
there absolutely are negative effects of tech on younger people. I dont have the link to the study, but one of a town that couldn't get a tv signal until the 70's showed they scored higher on emotional stability, attention span and all other intellectual markers than their peers elsewhere in the country. The Internet's probably made things worse.
@@bmetalfish3928”one study” is worthless every single time anybody cites it and people should stop doing it; there has never been any value to any singular study without it being compared to the general consensus among experts
It's extremely upsetting to realize that we've been blaming our younger generations for some or the other reason for centuries and continue to do so yet have failed to understand their perspective or even bother to try to learn the cure to this 'blame game'. The fact that we're all stuck in this never-ending vicious cycle of blame and misunderstanding is extremely obnoxious.
Understanding their perspective and letting them have their way are different. Teens are too immature to make most decisions. Too many bad parents let teens make their own decisions when they shouldn't. Understanding teens but they should also be taught that elders have experience.
@@lw1343They should also be taught which adults actually want to teach you and guide you and which adults want respect because they are adults. You should not generalize like this because it simply puts a limit on the freedom of our growing mind. Yes, too many parents don’t know their child to take the right route. Eventually, they are going to bu old enough to make their own decisions. What happens then? Since they are technically an adult, do we not shit on them anymore because they are not youth; the monster y’all so terribly despise? So many teens have so many ambitions with so many personalities that are shut down and redirected because of the older generation that is supposed to teach us, take care of us, and make sure that we are intelligent enough to go out on our own but for this to happen the way y’all want it to happen, take the risk of letting them “get their way” every single time.
@@dugo9846 Right, thank you. I see a lot of children and teens get turned down by their parents and adults in life about their passions. Yes sometimes it can be because their passion isn't exactly the right way to go but more often than not I see harmless things being disregarded by parents who act as if they don't care enough to support their own child whom they brought into the world. When youths do harmless things they want to do because they can, they are called spoiled. When youths don't go down the strictly set path their parents set for them without ever asking what they want, they're selfish. When they don't suffer the same as the older generation, they're weak and should be beaten down as hard as we were. I don't get it. Wasn't the point of progressing as a society to make things easier for people in the future? Sure we find ourselves wishing things could've been the way they are now, before, so we could be just a little happier than back then like the current generation. But issues remain issues and problems remain problems regardless of the form they take. Generations will always have their own set of struggles and even if we can't really understand that like we understood ours is it really hurting anyone to at least try to understand and be patient? At the end of the day, being the person your child can come to for reassurance and guidance all on their own is much more beneficial than belittling and insulting them. You can offer discipline and critique in a way that is constructive and not purely hurtful or a way to take your own unreasonable anger out on other people.
This phenomenon is actually so easy to understand. As we go through life and all it's experiences, we begin to change, manier times for the better but as we grow more older, we become more and more impatient with those who are just beginning to jump in the band wagon of life and starting their journey and experiences. So much so that, at one point in our lives we will even condemn ourselves when we were teenagers.
I really love how the old and supposedly wise expect the youth to amount to great things and "fix" their past mistakes when they continuously pin us as spoiled, worthless, and privileged.
Yet you keep voting for geriatric white men who are 15 years past retirement age as your President… and you’ll do it again in 2024. 90 year Feinstein, who should have been in a nursing home, had to die to get her out of office. Yet you all voted her in office in the first place.
@@Pavia1525If the choice is between a 90 year old with dementia and an energetic fascist who wants to genocide the transes, I’m going to pick the 90 year old every time without hesitation.
@JosephWood1941-iz6mi I don't personally believe that is universal. I believe that everyone has the capacity to be good or immoral and to not hold everyone to the same standard as one person or their singular beliefs. There are plenty of adults and the elderly who don't patronize the youth, but this philosophy is still present nonetheless.
@@wienersmcbutts Well yeah i understand that lol. But the fact that they think the only way to work and be successful is “climbing a corporate ladder” is so depressing. Hmm i wonder why people don’t want to “work” in the traditional sense?
I'm super grateful that my mom told me early and often "Every generation always thinks that the world is ending, and that it's all the fault of 'those darn kids'". I think it's helped me avoid falling into this mindset. I'm squarely a millennial but an old enough millennial now to be getting a little judgy, and I think the younger adults and kids these days are pretty great. I love the increase in take-no-crap attitudes and the ingenious creativity that I see in them. There is much that's wrong with the world, but many people my age (and some older ones too of course) are trying to steer it in a better direction, and I'm truly excited for how the next generations will capitalize on our start and where they'll take things.
How are you and others in ur generation trying to steer it in a better direction/path?? I’m genuinely asking and curious cause I wanna know what I can do as a 21 year old freshly going into adult society and stuff
For me, a sign that someone has aged and is stuck in a world that doesn't exist anymore is when they start blaming the younger generations for their problems or trying to act superior.
I'm an elder gen z (2000), I remember online when I was 14 to 17 years old, people were complaining about millennials, and tumbler. Now people are attacking Gen Z and forgotten that millennials did the exact same stuff. Watching this makes me feel relieved that people will forget about us and end up moving to the next generation, then the generation after that, and so on. But also, it makes me feel depressed that this has been going on for many generations even before the boomers. Its a cycle of hating the youth. Edit: corrections of my sentences
And because they forget our society on fast track to unavoidable doom. Every generation is one step closer to ignorance and glorifies stupidity, we'll have our own idiocracy soon
Elder gen z here as well (1999). I’ve always assimilated more with the millennial generation than I ever have with gen z. Thus I guess it makes sense that I’m more disappointed in “my generation” than I am proud. Tho with every generation there are differences and there are similarities in their strengths and weaknesses, but values wise it feels as if things have declined. With that said it’s not just gen z, but the world in general, so I wouldn’t wholly put the blame on the youth
Yeah I'm born in 2010 (younger Gen Z) and people are now complaining more about Gen Alpha since they were glued to screens their whole life (unlike boomers who didn't have screens for most of their lives, similar situation for Gen X) so yeah, we won't be forgotten, but we won't be hated either!
I think the Aristotle quote has to be considered more of a general observation of young people in general than a critique of the younger generation of his time. It is true that young adults (18-24) feel more confident about their ideas, but as they age past 25 and actually start interacting with the world and mixing up with people from all walks of life they become more flexible and question a lot more what they took for granted in their youth
I think that plato's quote would be more fitting for this video: "What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
I think that was the point. We've known about this phenomenon for millennia, and Aristotle had already pinned down the cause perfectly all the way back then. Yet the cycle of endless blame continues, and nobody seems to realize that, well... kids will be kids.
@@anima94well yes, at first your brain is deceloping and past some point it stops and as you age it slowly becomes slower as some neuron connections die
I had thought since the quote would be written on the youth he observed, and the only youth he observed as an adult WERE his younger generation (but I agree Plato's is much more fitting).
I remember my friend telling me we'd never end up like this. Fast forward ten years, and it's endless complaining about TikTok, influencers and more. I used to try reminding him what we always said, but gave up a few years back. Even if a person is aware of this trap, they can still fall for it.
Thing is Gen Z is already doing this to Gen Alpha. They talk about how kids nowadays suck and how the 2010s were "the golden era". Like bro, wtf you hating on literal children for? The oldest Gen Alpha is literally 13 and the youngest still hasn't been conceived yet. They haven't even reached their teenage years and they're already being hated
Still true to this day with how Gen Z complaining about how their brainrot is better. As if skibidi toilet isn't any worse than MLG and epileptic YTP edits. We're all fated to be pretentious to young people, I guess.
My sibling is the first generation gen alpha so as an older gen z myself i didn't let them watch any skibidi toilet practically meaning i saved them lol. Also i never watched these edits
_“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”_ -George Orwell
VSauce?
Well he forgot to mention how that was false lol
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Okay
He forgot to explain how each generation *imagining* itself to be more intelligent than the one that came before it and wiser than those coming after is a fallacious presumption all generations make. LOL
Also this orwell quote along with most of the statements by older generations mentioned in the video is irrelevant to the point this video wants to make,
If a generation that comes after yóu observed at statistical level starts to consume more tobacco than yóur generation and yóu put out an article pointing it out, it's not "blaming" the younger generation is it ? and neither is it some conventional old school outdated wisdom that doesn't belong in modern world, not to forget those 1993 1950s and 1933 quotes were truly spot on and real world impact of whatever that was happening that the authors of those articles were criticising can still be felt to this day, also everyone starts to think like their grandpa/grandma once they are old enough to loose the drive, energy and purpose to fohk around like they did in their teens and then they have a list full of regrets, embaressing moments, illnesses and advices so,
Yeah older generations are wiser and younger generations are more intelligent and orwellçúçks can chill out because neither the video nor orwell cared to explain older generations being concerned about leaving the world into the hands of younger generations was nonsensical and based on impracticality
I just finished 1984 and now watching the movie. Crazy to see him getting mentioned
@@fritzier5475 Honestly, we are moving beyond 1984 and entering Brave New World territory, you should read that book, much more accurate to where we are now.
Except Z, because they"re F literally.
I actually love the 20 BC quote. "We suck because our parents suck, and our kids will only get worse." Truly, the logical conclusion of this line of reasoning.
They were the only one to acknowledge that their own generation sucked
Good for them to realize and take a self reflection, unlike the rest of the generation
That's the truth I think most people here are missing.
Well it’s from the perspective of the kid so “My parents suck more than their parents and I’m my parents son so I suck”
They had a point and so did Aristotle.
Gotta love the fact that the older generation refuses to admit they raised that younger generation
I remember reading this opinion piece in a newspaper a few years ago complaining about “why can’t young people cook?” then within the first few paragraphs mention “in my day, we would learn from our parents”…
Bruh.
@@Discount-Stonks That's hilarious- What do they expect the younger generation to do?? Be born with the ability to cook? Like sure- A lot of people will just teach themselves if they have to, but you can't expect people to know a skill they weren't taught from the moment they leave the womb
@@Discount-StonksYeah maybe in their day you should've taught them too. Just sayin'
Interestingly, the issue as highlighted with the coming examples of other replies, they didn't raise the generation. The one's who complain mark themselves out as the problem.
It's pretty obvious to me that my generation is worse than the previous. And my next generation is worse than mine
"Walking on two legs seems to be fashion now, this youth is lost."
- Oonga Boonga, circa 2.5 million BC
This reminds me about what I think the first boomer humor art was. In my head, it dates back to thousands of years ago and mocks the upright walking generation. It consists of three pictures, one depicting the old generation, the second depicting the new upright walkers, and the third depicting a man who walks with his back fully back. The caption reads "our future?"
35 CE: Many People Of The Youth Are Following A Man Who Has No Father. Their Excuse Is That The Man Spoke As A Baby. ABSOLUTE BS!!!.-Jizi 13 BCE-47 CE.
"Cave art make up mind say"(no human want to be farmers only booker)
Lmao
WHY doesn't this have more likes 😭 I'm wheezing
showed this to my mom and she told me said my generation is lost and to do the dishes 💀
That literally proved the video’s point 💀
Went in one ear and out the other
Okay but did you do the dishes
Mother is right. Do the dishes and await the demographic and cultural collapse your peers have already set in train.
She might however consider that it was her and maybe her parents generation that hid all the signposts.
You guys are lost, in virtual reality land, the first humans raised in front of a screen. It's been a Terrible experiment,
My dad once told me that a good deal of advice was based on his own mistakes from his past. He's far more honest than most.
The best teacher is 2nd hand experience. My parents always talked about money when I was a kid, and now I'm looking at retiring in my 40's with a house and kids because I paid attention.
@@13.ghaniziyadsagiansyah66glad your alright
My parents say that to me too but I just won't listen until I've had the bad thing happen to me first hand
@@michaelp4122RETIRING IN YOUR 40’S? Yo you’re like that, congrats man
Never give advice on what you failed to do. Only give advice on how to do things when you defeat failure and succeed.
“Fire make children not able eat raw meat, this bad”
-Grok, 200,000 BC
Lmao
Ok Grok.
People still say shit like this to this day when they think rare steak is some sort of alpha male rite of passage and not like... A way to eat meat.
based, now our stomach are so weak
Grok's opinion is based and right
“Everything repeats over and over again. No one learns anything because no one lives long enough to see the pattern”
Worse part is that human memory isn't perfect either, and past always seems better because all boring parts and bad got filtered out.
another example:
Gen Z person eats an orange. He thinks it’s a tasty fruit. Gen Alpha kid a few years later eats an apple instead of an orange. The Gen Z person gets infuriated that the Gen Alpha kid does not eat the orange but rather the apple, as he hates apples, complaining that Gen Alpha is doomed.
Wth that 'cool quote' is contradiction to itself 😂, because it stands, that it found the pattern! (there is pattern, we are in Cage of our century and our environment (thats what i think (dialectical materialism)(Just Google dialectical materialism) )
@@GoblinKingTheSecond bruh, you can write a pattern to everything. Pattern is such a vague thing. But anyway, mb the mf thinks he's so special, like *no one* ever found the pattern, but him. Kinda edgy this way.
Also idc about your thing, honestly. You didn't describe it barely good, so it just sounds like another edgy thing. I won't bother googling it, just cause it sounds basic? Duh, environment plays big role in shaping a human. And duh, we live in a century and can't time travel and prob won't live to the next. If it means like, trapped in environment of a generation. Then yeah, it's obvious, duh.
It's probably more, complex, but I'm not curious enough about it.
@@GoblinKingTheSecond 🤡
It is impossible to condemn a younger generation without simultaneously damning your own generation.
Luckily damning my generation has nothing to do with how I feel about the influence I’ve had on the world.
@@fenrix155 bcs some people love to throw their problems at other people so they get loosen on their back, by striking their mental problem at their kids makes them relieved.
Don't have kids so I can condemn whoever the hell I want
Well said.
Yup. The meme where parent says "I hope my kids will have better life" and 15 years later "these kids live on easy mode. Spoiled brats!" Is really relatable. Each generation see throught their youth filter. You think that things should be "like in the old good days" 30 years later another generation thinks the same, and 30 years later another one...
Parents of today : Always on that damn phone
Parents of the 18th century: Always reading and attending the theater
parents of 400 AD: always watching gladiator fights
Parents of 20,000 BC : Always making cave paintings.
Parents of the first year: Always eating that forbidden apple (Bible Version)
Or
Parents of the first generation: Always Standing on 2 legs. (Evolution Version)
Eh kind if a mid comparison
@@NaCubicalLMAO
"They would rather hike in the Himalayas than climb a corporate ladder"
"They would rather be free instead of being my henchmen"
You misspelled poorly paid indentured servant
@@connormclernon26You misspelled slaves.
"The corporation wants you to identify the differences between this line and this line"
I mean I both love hiking in the Himalayas AND climbing a corporate ladder,these adults don't know a thing about me duh
I sometimes enjoy reading butthurt corporate girvance articles, good for a chuckle on the pooper. And we where supposed to be the entitled ones lol
"Kids suck because they like barely different stuff than I did, and the world's going to end because of them."
- Someone every single year
I like the fact when someone adds “the world will end because of you”
Or
“The world will end because of them”
But bruh- what can end the world IS Planet Earth GETTING WIPED OUT.
But you can’t say “this is all your fault” if the sun wiped the planet out 💀
@@JayEverdeenValentine Last words of the older generation being blown off the planet: "I knew nothin' good would come o' you whippersnappers an' yer flyin' machines!"
The 1790 one actually interests me. Its kinda like the people who say video games are corrupting the youth or that too much violent tv makes kids violent
French revolution intensifies
YEAH - books were a big social scare - kids in their bedrooms reading and not talking to the family
Well video games and the internet kinda corrupt the youth. Like the modern cigarettes.
iv heard vidoe games and tv rot you brian before not from my parents but from others and I new my grandfather used to talk about how his parents said that listing to the radio was also bad for you brian and after watching this video i guese they thought reading to many books and novels did that aswell very interesting considering now days schools plead with kids to read more as we know it actually benefits people to read fiction
Probably some of the same stuff kids are forced to read in school now and most are bored out of their minds by
The issue of people believing they are a genius rather than realizing everyone, no matter age, no matter “intelligence”, always has something to learn.
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(one hour later,and,like counter is like at the 12 likes...)
This is the least liked comment I’ve seen you have
I bet it won’t last for long though
@@MineZack2 definitely...
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hi, also yes
It’s funny how some people joke about people who say “I was born in the wrong generation” and how they should be happy with what they have, but then do stuff like this. It’s like punching someone and then act surprised when they are suddenly afraid of you.
I was born in the wrong generation. I should be born in ye oldie times where I would be sent to mines as 13 yo
@@realdragon you are from the skibidi toilet generation right ? (Anyone born after 2012)
@@josem588 No
@@realdragon I said it since 90% of animated series nowadays are brain rot
It translates to:
“I worked to give my child an easier life than mine and now I am resentful that I apparently was successful in doing so”
This is so true. I was back home in my holidays recently and I’d spend a day alone enjoying myself (playing with my dog, reading and listening to music) my Mum would come home and say “It’s ridiculous you’ve done nothing all day.” And I’m like “Is it? I’m literally on holiday. This house is amazing. We have a great garden in the countryside. It’s summer and I love my dog.” It’s like don’t you want me to enjoy being here? She expected me to spend all day rushing around cleaning, tidying and running errands for some unknown arbitrary reason. She was the same when I was a teen, as if her mission was to always make me earn my place by doing tonnes of hard domestic work (which I rarely did, except basics like doing the dishes and walking the dog etc.) and whenever I didn’t do something she’d lambast me. “Mum I’ve had a happy day is that so bad?” Ironically she wants me to have a happy life but I guess in some other way?
@@doctornov7My mom was (and still is) the same way. Like "How dare you not busy yourself with menial tasks 24/7?" Makes no sense, man.
@@doctornov7
I see your point and I understand how you feel, but maybe what your mom wants is help. I'm a parent and I try not to overwork myself but I constantly feel crushed under the weight of my responsibilities. Holidays don't just happen. Someone is doing the work and it's almost always the women, especially moms.
Probably they're resentful they didn't get to do what they really wanted to do before they had kids 😮
@@doctornov7real
I like how older generations are essentially blaming themselves for bad parenting
Well, no, they aren't blaming themselves. They're blaming the kids for sure, parenting isn't a reliable factor to for guessing how people turn out, we can all make our own choices. Older generations do this because it's the instinct of the old to "fix" the young, or to help them avoid things they see as pitfalls.
I'm not saying they're right about what's a fault and what isn't. It's Just that it's more nuanced than people who are subconsciously selling themselves out some how
@@kaimamoonfury1335shhhh your fancy schmancy nuance isn’t welcome here! Requires too much damn thought.
Comes a point where its on you tho
Yoshida in 1330 talking about modern fashion
Imagine him in 2023
It's wild to see that books and theater were once considered a bad influence just as people do with video games and social media now
Well, theatre back in the day was full with sex and fart humor.
With social media I am very biased against it, because I used to be addicted to it and it just made me depressed. Deleting my Twitter and Insta accounts was the best decision I made in a long time.
It's all distractions from keeping in touch with oneself, life, death and nature. Atleast that's what I imagine this thing is about.
exactly, and nowadays a kid who enjoys books and theater is seen as “going places in life compared to their peers”. crazy how times change.
"It's because you're always on that damn phone!"
"It's by cause of those damned novels!"
i meeean long exposure to social media does cause your mental health to go down into the pits, sooo... but come on, really? Yeah, I'm sure that's the reason why we have a bad economy and global warming... right... totally wasn't already a problem b4 phones.....
it just seems like they put the blame of huge long-standing problems on things they don't understand. awareness brings change.
@@tryingnot2bdumb No, it's just the same problems with different tech.
“It’s those dang books!” 0:54
Honestly, it brings me great comfort that the dynamic between younger and older generations seems to have remained largerly the same throughout written history. Reminds you that we have always been of the same people, just in different circumstances
Ancient Romans drew penises on walls
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 Something tells me that there were cavemen out there drawing dicks in their caves
@@ibraheemshuaib8954We have been 10 year olds this whole time
@@elbrachoxddd5883 also ancient roman graffiti about "doing someone" in that particular area
There was also an Ancient Sumerian joke which was literally a bar joke
As a 16 y.o. i remember being so angry that nobody took young people seriously, so at 31 i try to keep those memories to my chest.
Me too man
Well, do you really want to take young people seriously? I do btw, but not in the ways most people consider "serious".
I remember thinking that, too. I also remember what an idiot I was and how little I knew about the world.
I remember this and dont because 16 y/o was bloody stupid lmao
@user-ig2vf3yl1c Teenagers can still make valid points and have logical answers.
My father has always been fantastic when it comes to this. When people try to say to him "kids these days", my darling Dad responds "they're bloody great, aren't they?" Couldn't ask for a better father.
I like him.
I wish I had a father like that but I still love mine
Based asf dad
Your dad is awesome
That father is a true Gigachad.
Mihajlo Bogdanović
I am 32. When I was 28 I went through an experience of going back to university. So I studied with kids that were 10 years younger than me. I was fearful that they might not be welcoming of me, but it turned out to be an awesome experience. I found that they were open minded to new ideas, and found many common interests. The discussion here reminded of this.
My grandma never went to college when she was 40, she told me the other students were nice with her and even called her mom
@@Agus-bg9ob that's so nice of them, and so awesome of your grandmother to go to college and study, very ambitious and strong. I also graduated from the Sociology Department but had a change of heart after changing jobs more than once and not finding myself and my purpose, and then went to college, the kids were awesome and I have many friends now, and we have conversations easily ❤ I can understand their interests and find many common topics to talk about. I don't regret this experience ❤🧡
@@Opeth1991
“These new generations don’t know anything about having a hard time because we lived through COVID”
-we in 2050
As a college student, I’m friends with many of the older generation students, and they’re all awesome. The professors at my college are awesome, too. They actually care about the younger generation and want to do what they can to help them grow. I’m very blessed to go to this college.
I love the 1790 quote. It’s actually weirdly comforting to know that us adults have been whining about popular entertainment “corrupting the children” for forever now, like the parents who wasted a whole quarter-century rallying against video games and hip-hop.
To be fair, hip-hop's basis is gang subculture and the lyrics consist a lot with having sex, dealing drugs, and shooting people, and is made by people who have done one or all of those things.
@@bud389The first sex joke in Romeo and Juliet is on the second page. Also, there’s a lot of stabbing and drinking and dancing and generally disrespecting your parents’ wishes.
They were right. Much of popular entertainment does corrupt people by promoting immodesty, lust, fornication, intoxication, boasting, selfishness, greed, theft, pride, arrogance, narcissism, rebellion against parents and civil authority, hatred of neighbors and civil society, murder, sodomy.
Real woke is understanding there’s some wisdom amongst the misunderstanding.
@@anthonypuccetti8779you’re on a site where people make bank playing video games buddy
Parents to their kids: "You're worthless. You'll never amount to anything. When I was your age I accomplished so many things!"
Also parents to their kids: "Getting older is terrible. Your body hurts constantly, you never get to have fun. Enjoy your youth while you can!"
Parents to themselves: "Why do these kids lack ambition? They just want to be children forever. What's wrong with them?"
You've gotta take responsibility for your own life eventually. Doesn't matter what your parents said or didn't say
@@croutendo2050 There are adults who don't do that.
@@0816M3RCthen they are not adults
@croutendo2050 It does matter what parents did or didn't say, it affects their kids who are in their most impressionable years.
@@croutendo2050 Let me guess, are you American ?
When I hear them complain all I can think of is "you raised them!!!"
“What do you know about having a hard time if we lived through COVID ?”
-we in 2050
Bro, I rebelled against "stoopid parents"
I think the best "history repeats itself" kind of sentiment is the "video games make people violent" one. Go back half a generation and it's violent movies. Go back a full generation and it's music. Go back four generations and its books. Go back centuries and it was about scripture and sermons.
I suppose it's human nature to try and find scapegoats for perceived flaws instead of recognizing them as part of our human nature.
Go back more it's "Making cave paintings*
exactly. Humans are not perfect, but somehow, we always find a way to hate on younger generations, like we never made mistakes or had different, new things!
Exactly this.
So well said I had to screenshot it 🫡
I read somewhere that older people in Roman Empire complained that the younger generations prefers to write books rather than be a soldier.
I'm almost 30 and pretty much all of my friends love talking about how bad today's kids are compared to us. It's a never-ending cycle.
Update: yesterday on the bus two men were talking about the new gen: how weird they are, how they only know tiktok and games and you can't tell "what they are". One of them said he was born in 1993, and the other one was younger than him.
“Today’s music is terrible! Remember the good old days of Nickelback and Limp Bizkit?
I am only 18 and I start complaining how when I was 9-10 fnaf was much better to grow up than this skibidi toilet and tik tok shit, it will never end
Tiktok fucked them up good
@@dorianpompa8409It is truly awful
@@darthbane5357 It really isn't that bad. Is it the classiest of trends? No. But toilet humor has been popular since time began
Every generation thinks that the way they grew up is the only right way.
Fortunately we (gen Z), or gen α can be 1st generation who can say they grew up in the shittiest way.
@@pavelzabak5276 not at all
@@vanterbaba4110Yess😂 all day and night on screen no memories just online games and shorts they got.
@@souravupadhyay2029 there has definitely been shittier times growing up, when you had to work hard to stay alive and pray to god you don't get sick because there isn't really any medicine
@@vanterbaba4110 You are going way too back aren't you lol
"Kids these days go farming and waiting for stuffs to grow. They don't know how it feels like to nearly died along with your comrades during a mammoth hunt. This generation is doomed."
(Grogg The Caveman, a translated painting in a cave hidden from the public)
we need groggism in these modern times
Old grug believe new cycle of grugs berry-pickers.
This. I feel like the older generation is often just jealous at the younger generation for having it easier in life.
@@laserslime do we have it easier in life tho? Most of us can barely afford an apartment...
@@laserslime "we need to make life easier for our children!"
"kids have it so easy these days 🙄"
this is exactly why gen alpha is *not* doomed. you hear all this talk about how this is the end, that gen alpha is becoming stupider by the second, but gen alpha people are still kids. i completely trust that they will grow up, and they will learn. you hear all this talk about it right now, but give them time. humanity never changes, and soon enough we will be ridiculing the next generation.
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Gen Alpha will be more stupid because their parents failed to raise them. Their parents' parents also failed.
But it is true that kids nowadays have poor reading comprehension so that’s probably a big issue
@@darrenchen964 *some
Generation nowadays is much more smarter.. I'm not worry..look at Palestine Israel issue..they are much more educated than older generation..
I recently turned 30 and it's been quite depressing to see people around my age be so strict on the younger ones, forgetting how it was to be young just yesterday
Bruh 30 is young… millennials aren’t any different than gen Z tbh
@@andrewjones4774 they really arent, considering the oldest of us are like 26. for some reason people seem to forget how far the age ranges span out and just shove us all into one category.
@@andrewjones4774 I’m a millennial, but on the cusp of millennial and gen Z, so I can relate to both, but I still see some differences. Mostly in mindset, and certain values, but tbf, I think that could be due to immaturity on Gen Z’s part, cuz they’re still really young, and I know for a fact that millennials acted similarly when we were younger, we just had different things going on at the time.
Right? i saw a kid on a leash the other day 😕 your child isn’t a dog… I wanted to give that mom a tongue lashing, but I had hurt my ankle and wouldn’t have been able to run away in case someone got mad at me 😅
@@ilikefire9710 You: *Wanted to complain, but was to physically injured to run from a lady with a child in tow.*
I'll take shit that didn't happen for 400$ Alex.
Im 23 and i learned the hard way that adults are just grown children playing pretend.
I don't understand how anyone doesn't know this, it should be obvious
Both of you are right- now reflect on how both of you fed into the same cycle of complaining @@IsaButecos
@@IsaButecosWhen from a young age someone is taught that adults know best and are always right, only to go out into the world to find that nobody knows what they are doing 50% of the time, it may not be as quickly obvious as you think.
@@ATruckCampbell totally. I'm wondering at what point I know what I'm doing all the time... Still waiting
@@fastertrackcreative That is most people, especially younger generations. You go bro.
I appreciate Aristotle for actually figuring out that the reason why younger people are bad at a lot of things is because, yep, they’re young. They’re inexperienced. Better yet, he’s commenting not on a generational difference but on something that’s consistent in all generations.
It’s still hyperbolic of course, but the principle’s right at least, more than can be said for anything else here
He thought well, even though his idea of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water being in everything was terrifically wrong.
@@The_Darke_Lorde Hey, sometimes ya miss once in a while!
@@crispy1323 Yep! Not everyone's perfect in everything! He got this idea right, and he taught Alexander the Great!
A lot of the latter quotes are simply talking about how the young lack wisdom and experience, which is true. It didn’t say that this generation was better than the other.
@@The_Darke_Lorde Yeah but then we wouldn't have Avatar tlab or like the majority of magic systems in videogames and fiction
And we Gen Zs arent exactly breaking the cycle either with how much gen alpha is getting memed on
Its different because Alpha actually is receiving brain rot. Schools are having to create "tablet time" and specialized classrooms because all of these kids that are constsntly on TikTok and RUclips shorts. Gen Alpha literally is rotting their own brains thanks to their Gen Z parents. Well, at least the parents that dont care. The Gen Z kids who were also glued to their phones all the time and you know exactly who. Cant say theyre all doing it but its definitely a problem. Look up "gen alpha ipad kid". They sit hunched over all day on a tablet watching 30 second videos giving them a constant dopamine hit. If zoos have to ban phones because of TikTok rotting gorillas and chimps brains its definitely rotting little kids brains.
Gen Alpha is raised by Skibidi, not their parents.
@@AmenProletar And that's the fault of gen z and millenials for not knowing how to parent.
I knew Gen Z was cooked when they said "rizz" was a Gen Alpha word
@@TrulyAtrocious Exactly, mfs are pretending THEY didn't invent the word in the first place
Yep, just as I thought. I'm 53 and hear this sort of thing mostly from the boomer generation. Truth is each generation has its own set of challenges and we are not adults on our 18th birthday. Growing up takes a lifetime.
What I found interesting was how they got more and more and more truthful as they went back further in time. Like, the final one isn’t even hateful it’s just an accepted moral principal
Some of us mature sooner then others...I had to be the man when I was still a boy
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@@naplzt4kThat is not healthy
Mr. Kyle I appreciate your comment a lot
My favourite is from an Assyrian stone tablet in 2800 BC.
"Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”
It's literally the ancient version of "everyone wants to start a podcast"
Last line got me wheezing. What a perfect connection 🤣
"The world is gonna end soon"
-someone in 14.000 BC
the bronze age has fallen, billions must iltam sumra rashupti ilatim
but were they wrong tho? i think not.
@@FazeParticles I mean, has the world ended?
As a millennial, I can safely say I’m tired of hearing, “kids don’t want to work anymore,” when there are generations of newspaper clippings declaring the same thing.
Maybe “kids” are more aware of their taxes being spent on wars they didn’t vote and politicians flying to Epstein island.
Yeah, it’s almost like this whole “work to survive” thing is and has always been a bum deal
Edit: people in this thread really still be buying into the 4000 year old propaganda kings came up with to get their subjects to build their castles for them. Y’all getting scammed, guys. Work (as in value-adding labor) will always exist and always have a place in the world, yes, but job culture? That shit is a scam
Yeah, I hope I can remain more sympathetic towards newer kids comin up. Being a millennial sucked, and I’m sure it’s still much the same.
What do you mean you don't like toiling, throwing your life away for the benefit of some aristocrat? HEATHEN, I SAY! CAST HIM INTO THE PIT OF DESPAIR!
When I have kids, I'm gonna make a future for them where they never have to live a finger.
"Do not raise your children as you were raised, for they were born for a different age than yours" Ali bin Abi Talib
@Youalreadyknowwhoitis-dg1uf
He said that indeed
ل"ا تربوا أولادكم كما رباكم آباؤكم، فقد خلقوا لزمان غير زمانكم"
- علي بن ابي طالب
@@kawru_kun6846where do you get this quote
@@niidaimehokage5731 it's a weak hadith but it is mentioned in a lot of arabic books of education / raising
Completely true for every single human being, no matter what part of the world. Parents complain about same thing in different languages in different nations.
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That's hilarious 😂😂😂.
WOW!! So true.
it's because young people suck and you don't realize your faults until you're older and try to point them out to the next generation who doesn't listen or care until they're in your shoes and the cycle continues
@@naplzt4k Yeah. That seems like it. But all in all Humanity is progressing. The world is quite peaceful, than it has ever been. Inventions are being made, and we are preparing for Space. I believe the next generation will be smarter and better than me. Like every generation has been better than the previous generation, if we exclude our personal mindset and look at the reality.
I love how the further back in time you go, the more language becomes philosophical and poetic but it’s still ragging on the young generation lol
Humans are the same no matter what. Just different context
Three big factors for this are: how we translate stuff, how we perceive old language as more sophisticated, and also how as you go back in time the barrier to literacy gets higher, meaning only the more fancy folk would be writing
@@l0kk016 danng, I didn’t even think of that. I forget only the higher class were the ones that were educated
Imagine our RUclips comments will be seen as smart and sophisticated in the future lol
@@craftahnah older texts seem sophisticated just because the people who knew how to write were either really rich or had a job that requores you to know how to write.
The poor people didn't knwo how to read or write for like 99% of hiatory
I’m only 27 but I constantly see people my age post about how the younger generation is stupid. I don’t understand how they completely forgot what adolescence was like. I remember a kid crushing up candy and snorting it in 7th grade. I remember a trend where people were lighting themselves on fire and running to pools before it hurt too much. Some kids make dumb choices and it doesn’t matter what generation they’re from.
But I’m also a teacher and I’m constantly amazed by how resourceful and clever and self-aware kids are now. I’ve worked with kids who created their own servers to bypass the district blocking Minecraft. I’ve worked with kids who have as much emotional intelligence as I had only a few years ago and reflect on why they behave in certain ways. I work with kids who are more understanding and thoughtful about the world than I was at their age.
Not only is the next generation doing incredibly well with what they have, but they’re even better than I was and THATS THE WHOLE POINT. Why would you want them to suffer and struggle the ways you did? Life will always have enough hardship. You don’t need to give them more. You need to give them the tools you wish you had to get through that hardship. That’s how we create progress.
We're the generation that invented planking (I think) and shat on Justin Bieber for no reason. Not to mention that we sorta encouraged the older generation to make Facebook accounts and looked how that turned out. We should be ashamed!
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Ok but some of these people can't even figure out their gender
At 27 you are still part of the young generation so is hard to see outside the wall, but the main problem is the same back then as right now, things keep getting worst, even you at 27 can see, maybe, how your generation was one thing and the one arriving now are diferent, your generation was one of the worst ever, this new one is even worst... can you imagine the next ?
That's the thing that should worry people not the other parts.
@@someguy3429 you don't understand psychology
One of my greatest existential comforts is the reassuring predictability of human nature.
the reality of the situation is that once people figure out how stupid they were when they were younger, they forsake their younger selves because they are embarrassed. They then see themselves in the next generation and project their self hate onto them. every generation is likely to be this way so long as humans value their appearance more than admitting their mistakes. only humility will save us.
And that's why pride month SUCKS!
Old people want to make themselves feel better, more deserving and distract themselves from their own flaws by pointing fingers at others, and there just happens to be people who have an aspect to them that now they despised in themselves and can project onto, and because they despised their younger selves, they refuse to give younger people any of the respect they themselves want, even if they themselves don’t have much to deserve it other than being older at times
Huh, this reeks of the truth. I hate my past self with a burning passion, and I also don't like kids a whole lot either.
Well if you’re wise enough to know that your past self was reckless and would have been better off being less reckless, isn’t it more altruistic to want to keep the youth on more responsible paths?
I’m sure there’s plenty of self loathing/projecting going on. But it doesn’t change anything about the nature of human beings which we learn more of with age. The young *will* divert from tradition at their own risk.
@@jmeds94we've never been able to set people on said path
Yes, let’s blame the generation after us for everything, even though we are the ones who raised them
Fr bro all my homies hate gen alpha for existing 😂
humans are not intelligent they are attracted to intelligence
Actually reasonable point here
lets ruin everything for them and then call them names like lazy or whiny! This damned young generation!
Idiots usually raise more idiots
I remember thinking I knew everything at 15. Then I realized how stupid that was when I turned 25, I knew it all at 25. Then I turned 35 and again. So I saw the pattern. So I look forward to 45 soon so I can reflect back on what I’ve learned in my past. It would definitely be helpful if the older generation coached the younger generation instead of just blaming them.
Exactly I hate old people being all judgy or anyone being really judgy in general if you aren't or haven't been in that situation you shouldn't be so harsh on them
Maybe when you hit 45 and you realize you're just as wise as at 35 then you've peaked and that's when it's time to blame those who are still growing.
I mean, the older generation _raised_ the younger one. If the "coaching" (parenting) they already provided gave rise to these alleged trainwrecks of human beings, why would more of it be a good thing?
I wouldn't want members of my generation coaching anyone. That goes double for the boomers.
@@thomasprislacjr.4063 wisdom can be shared in a respectful loving and non-judgmental way. That’s good coaching, good teaching. Just depends on the intent of the person doing the teaching.
*Older generations and younger generations will never learn how to become a better person themselves. This is the endless vicious cycle of hatred, injustice and darkness.*
At least in Mexico this concept of rebellious youth began with our parents (I am gen z so my parents are gen x) considering that some of my relatives got pregnant At really young ages and that my dad dropped out of high school
A good audiobook from a psychologist 👩⚕️ stated that our memories tend to tactically forge a more positive image of what we were like when we were young, repressing certain mistakes.
This in turn, always leads to us thinking that we had it together more than any other subsequent generation. 😮
I definitely don't think that me and my generation are perfect 😂😂
What book??!
@@bearworm David Bueno (author), el cerebro del adolescente (title)
Well psychology is mostly quackery combined with begging the question psychologists use to inject crazy schizophrenics with insulin to get them comatose without realizing that this process was slowly killing them. This procedure won the Nobel prize in medicine.
¿Audiobook? Lee un libro de verdad, no un pndjbuki o lo que sea. Esos jóvenes...
Meanwhile, when I worked as a cashier I wondered why most of the middle schoolers were literally the most polite customers ever. I was a little shit when I was 12, and yet I've seen so many kids that age who are _so formal and polite_ it almost freaks me out. Same with college students, I generally find they're very polite. When I worked at a cafe in a college campus for half a year, I don't recall having a single rude customer that whole time, which is insane because at any other job I would have at least one story per week if not per day.
Lol absolutely untrue here in Hungary. Most college students are disrespectful and don't know any formal stuff, modesty. And I say that as an university student. Even worse for younger generation in middle schools. I see and hear them every day, interacting with older generations. It's a shame. But I'm glad for you, whenever you're that things are different there.
Which country is this?
I believe like others have pointed out this is very dependent on the area you live in and the level of education/poverty there.
To me, college students seem very passive aggressive. Never outright rude but they know exactly how to give off that "I'm better than you because you work a service job." vibe.
This was my experience, too. The rudest customers I've ever had have always been Gen X or older. I've seen plenty of very nice older people but a notable portion of them are like toddlers or are straight up psychologically (a few times physically) abusive if they don't get their 25 cent discount or something. I've personally never seen a younger person act so intensely to something like that. Do they get grumpy or rude sometimes? Absolutely. But never to the same degree that I've seen in older people.
I was reading The book of Enoch, which is one of the oldest known books. There's a point where Enoch complains about how the invention of writing has degraded society. His reasoning is that when you have only oral tradition then the only way to learn is by building a relationship with your elders, but now that we have writing the younger generation has knowledge without relationship and respect for their elders. He's literally saying "Kids these days spend too much time on their tablets". 😅
300 BC: "them kids these days spend too much time on their books"
2023 AD " them kids these days spend too much time on their tablets"
The more things change...the more they stay the same XD.
I mean he's not to far off though...it may not be true for most at the time (as with anything new and innovative) But as time has gone on personal relationships are faltering more and more due to the needs of humanity being met without interaction.
For one you can get groceries delivered to your door via contactless delivery.
Their stone tablets maybe 😂
@@TiberusVit’s a huge jump to go from “them kids can learn without me” to “humanity can simply meet their needs without any contact”. A lot of other factors more directly responsible need to be taken into account (e.g. a society that incentivizes quick, cheap dopamine hits). Moreover, complaining about books is the biggest L; the printing press is considered to be one of greatest inventions, one that really accelerated our development, perhaps second only to the transistor.
Anyway, all of this is to say that it takes a lot more than technological progress to reach a society where all needs are met without actual human contact.
Wow!
My grandma: "women nowadays don't hug their children, they don't love them"
Also my grandma's family: abuses, use of alcohol and "go get my cigarettes, child" at 10PM in winter
As a Mexican I always thought American families were the best
I remember walking into my ethics class in college on the first day and this quote was on the board:
“Stop worrying about the younger generation. They’re going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.”
Always stuck with me
Amazing 🎉 thanks
It truly is an endless cycle
Amazing quote!
As a millennial I think we have reached an inversion point. I can't be bothered worrying about younger generations when boomers still exist. Whatever people said throughout history about the younger generations is true 100% about boomers even in their old age.
@@pllpsy665 do you think gen Z or the next generation will say the same about us?
A lot of the complaints boil down to, "these immature young people act like immature young people". Like, EVERYONE was like that at one point in time.
I mean, I would say to the elder that you can't be mature and experienced without making some mistakes in life.
I half agree, nowadays some little sh*ts come and scream to my face profanities for literally nothing and if you hit them or talk back they are doubling down. The internet has taught them no consequences for their actions and sooner or later they learn the hard way. When I was a kid, I used to run on the other side of the road when an adult or group of adults were approaching. They never chased if you showed respect. We knew we could get beaten up and bullied or jumped on for our lunch money so we just kept distance and never dared sh*t talking them.
@MarxPopstar69 I mean, you can just not watch that particular stuff to be honest. It's not so much a "younger generation" issue as it is an internet issue, which is a different conversation.
I don't know, a generation of kids as young as 16 had to go fight in WW1, or be chimney sweeps or shit like that if they were born poor. Noat young people born poor today are working from 16 onwards, seems only rich kids have the luxery of young and immature ibto their 20s and beyond...
@MarxPopstar69 its not even young people anymore parents posting naked pics of their babies online give it 20 years or so and thats gonna ruine someone life wouldn't be surprised if in the next decades we have a shit ton of laws about protecting childeren online and what you can and cann not post
The fact that 60 year olds in the 1960's hated on boomers the same way boomers hate on gen Z is both ironic and hilarious
Edit: wth how did I get 4.5k likes
Boomers are right gen z is fucking awfull. They dont even know if they are a boy or girl and im saying that as a 23 year old.
Doesnt mean that boomers arent fucking brats being able to buy a home at 21. Theres a reason the greatest generation is called that way
True
I thought it was millennials who were hated by boomers
@@shiverfan4867..millennials, Z, what's the difference really both are lazy and easily offended by everything......
But I love being an Xer and watching the war between the boomers and silly millies😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
In this case it seems the 60 year olds from the 60's were right, because Boomers are the most entitled and parasitic generation. They were given everything in a silver plate and they have the Gaul to look down on the rest of us.
I sent this to a group chat with my mother and grandmother in it. Oddly enough, they both loved it. I'm glad my family appreciates my abilities, and still gives me good advice
I remember hearing a quote from a teacher, maybe over 100 years ago, saying something like " It's sad to see all of these children learning how to write only on paper and not the vastly more useful skill of writing with chalk on a blackboard"
Good graciousness 🤦♀️
But it’s the same… you’re just writing at a different angle…
@@SleepIsForTheWeak285 thats the point of bringing it up. Its dumb, just like most of the "criticisms" people make of younger generations
Wow a centenarian RUclips viewer. Still dropping comments at 105+ years old.... Amazing😂😂
Thing is, whoever said this wasnt wrong. Paper is wasteful AF. Kids SHOULD be learning how to write with easily erasable materials.
I have kids... and the amount of paper my kids have sent home from school is straight up shameful. SO. MUCH. WASTED. PAPER. and thats just my kid. Theres a whole class getting the same. And a whole grade. And a whole school. They go through TONS per year, im sure.
But yet we have lil eco gremlins screeching at us about plastic blah blah... but we refuse to just go back to how they used to do it? The older generations did it right. Consumer generations....(hint: us).... are NOT.
As a teacher, it bothers me when I hear other teachers complain about "Today's kids." Not only is complaining about kids without knowing what's going on in their lives (sometimes they do), but it's our job to love them and help them develop, not talk smack behind their backs. All of us screwed up as kids, but we expect kids around us to live up to some template we have as to how kids "should" be, based on a poorly-remembered and rose-tinted view ofnourselves as kids.
I remember in high school almost 40 years ago now, two or three teachers told classes I was in "you are the worst class I've ever had to deal with." Talking smack behind their back might be better than talking smack to their faces.
@jb888888888 That it valid, but it would be healthier to express frustrations with behaviors in the class and how they impact you rather than to give the class a generalized negative statement. That teacher did not approach the situation in a good way at all.
I wish you luck as a teacher. My sister is gonna be a teacher soon and she gets kids. Godspeed…
I had a teacher that literally was talking to another one just a couple minutes before class started and she got mad at this boy who was in my class who is "bad" it just seemed like he couldn't sit still and was just hyper active. Maybe he had ADHD I'm not sure. But she said and I quote, "He's so stupid." To another teacher and rolled her eyes I will never forget that. Ik some terrible things happened in her life at that moment but that is no excuse how she treated me whem I was younger and how she teated the other she favortized. Like a girl made a mistake and didn't save it and she told her it was fine and whem I told her I made a mistake and didn't aave it she yelled at me and we were alone and I'm not gone lie I lowkey got scared and she walked out and left me in the room and I almost cried. Because I felt so bad for making a mistake. She told the girl a couple seconds ago that it was okay but she started yelling at me jumping down my throat telling me she hopes that I had a backup and left me in a room alone. That has hsunted me into my adult life and now I'm nervous about asking for help and making mistakes. I try and get over it but it's hard. Ik it sounds childish but I was in like the 6th, 7th or 8th grade at the time. I watched her and other teachers talk about us behind their back because the great majority were talking loudly that they didn't think anyone would notice. She was a terrible teacher and mean asf for just no reason. The one's she favored could do a whole lot but the ones she didn't couldn't do anything. My and my partner for the school newspaper made a mistake by reading something inappropriate about zodiac signs while we were surfing the web for zodiac information. [The school didn't have child privacy lock or whatever on to keep you from seeing inappropriate images which now that I think about it seems like majorly the school fault not ours] and we didn't mean any harm by it and didn't even know what it meant at the time and she made us literally sit out for the entire semester and when I asked her could I do something to contribute to class she said, "No." Like a high school mean girl. I hate to describe that as her personality but that is how a lot of our female teachers were. I was bullied as a child and it still sticks with me no matter hoe hard I try and shake it and the teachers especially her didn't make it any better. I could say her name a put her on blast but I'm not going too. I could be wrong and it could be my fault but who knows. I just know I felt bullied by my teachers and they never stopped the kids from bullying me but were quick to jump on me and get me in trouble for the slightest offense. They are part of the reason why I have trouble asking for help and talking to people because I got shut down and felt I couldn't approach them because of how they treated me versus other students who were younger than me and more popular. Highschool wasn't any better. All my teacher were pretty cold and mean and unreachable. The students were majority bullies and other councilors were just like them and sided with the popular kids more often than not. When I tried ti get a teacher to make a boy stop picking on me she said, "I can't control everyone and I can't make people stop doing anything. It's best to just ignore them." "I'm not gonna stop my class for every offense." And they doubled down on teasing me when she said that. Everyday I tried to get help and everyday I got the same response. No help at all and people wondered why I was so defensive and snappy and I didn't smile because everyone bothered me and no one helped me. Even when I looked to my teachers for help they just sat back and ket things happen. And I had her at the beginning of the day as my first class. So imsgine hoe that affected my view for the rest of the day. I have always been a senesitivr and gentle person but that changed because people always hurt me. I'm still sensitive and nice but I am just extremely gated. I don't even ket my friends close or other tell my parents what bothers me because I don't feel like I can trust anyone but myself. God I think I need to see a therapist, now that I'm looking back on this whole situation and what I typed. Even though I'm sure it won't change anything.
@@noctemluxarmiger Me too, we both need therapists 😭 It will help, trust me. Hang in there, it will be ok. 💗
I’m an older generation and I hate when people start hating on young people just because they are young. It’s ridiculous. Nonetheless a lot of people do it to feel good about themselves
As a person from this generation, thank you.
As another person from this generation, ur a real one
Agreed. I'm in my mid-70s.
Couldn't agree with you more 👍
I don’t hate on younger generations, but I have seen a decline in manners and respect towards older people. I am close to my 30s and I don’t remember more kids than on my teenage years being this mean or “heartless” towards adults.
And now We, Gen Z getting all hate and blames from the older generation, they told us how ungrateful, stupid, etc. Yet they ask us to solve all those problems they created. Damn
hey we arent clear either, there are some of us i see hating on gen Alpha, make sure to stay strong, keep your brain functioning, and dont become one of them
I can only hope for the best.
@eugenekrabs141 Honestly, as a Gen Z, I have hope for Gen Alpha, and while I hate it when anyone says “oh, Gen Alpha is doomed”, it irks me even more when it’s a Gen Z saying that. Like, the oldest ones are only just becoming teenagers (or not - still unsure about whether Alpha started in ‘10 or ‘12) and it seems like a lot of the slander boils down to “skibidi toilet” or “they’re all iPad kids” (which is pretty false) or whatever. Obviously there’s a lot of flaws with them - as there are with any generation - but come on, can we let them grow up first, _please._
I'm Millennial, and I've pledged to myself that I will never do that to a younger generation. *Never; I'd rather die.* In fact, that's because we got the blame game even worse from the Baby Boomers, and guess what? I've been seeing the headlines of Gen Z stomping out toxic workplace trends, voting more than everyone else, and even putting institutions like churches and the military into crisis mode by not going to them. Your generation is what I wish mine was when we hit adulthood.
@oof9420 Yes and the homophobic and racist jokes in the 90's and the yt content like annoying orange and jaystation weren't right?
"When people demand respect for who or what they are and what they have done for others rather than what they have done for you they show themselves lacking the wisdom to deserve it." ~ My great grandmother to me after telling me someone demanding respect for their age was full of shit, she was 78 at the time
She also taught me the smallest thing you can do for someone is be polite when it would be easy to be rude, yet it earns you the most respect. You'd be amazed how far you can get in life by being polite.
Your grandmother just explained respect better to me in 10 seconds than my mom did in 10 years
There is a time and place for politeness
@@harrybudgeiv349 I think everyone should be polite.
@@IONov990you know where you can stick your opinion
My favorite one of these examples I saw somewhere was this one lady in ancient China complaining that kids are so entitled by how easy it is to read/write books nowadays, they’ll never know to difficulties of using clay tablets like I had to do.
She was miserable because she felt she suffered and endured while others had it easy which shows her insecurities tbh
Plato complained that the widespread use of reading and writing would ruin the new generations because they wouldn't have to memorize anything
@omaralkayal7598, it's always jealousy
@@Yoshemo1Plato wrote a lot down though and wrote entire books. Socrates was the one who thought writing down would weaken your mind and reasoning.
@@Yoshemo1 Jokes on him... no one reads, have attention spam of 3 minutes and forget where the leave the keys
I really like the irony that older adults trashing on younger generations forget that they are the ones that raised these "spoiled" children. Like imagine constantly feeding your child with technology unsupervised to make them shut up and have the audacity to complain about their behaviors. Bad adults raise bad kids.
They would rather blame the people who are still learning how to be functional adults than take accountability.
Well said
Well most of those older generations didn't have access to the internet so it's a legitimate take now.
@@youdontneedtoknow7548The point of the original comment was giving them unsupervised access to things like the internet because they didn't want to bother with interacting with their kids shouldn't complain about their children being spoiled and being on their iPads all day.
@@albertxion513The TV filled this in before, as did video games. This isn’t new. But access to limitless “information” is deranging kids and young adults. Of all the generations cited in this video, how many are tampering with their hormones and cutting their genitals off?
I remember reading somewhere that Ancient Egyptians complained about the younger generation using clay tablets to write lists down rather than using their brains to remembering it. 😅
I'm 57 and have an 18 year old son who's smarter, more grown up and far more switched on as I ever was when I was 18, to say all kids are the same is absolutely stupid, I have friends the same age as me who are still making the same mistakes as when we were kids, It always strikes me when my generation speak about wasted youth it says far more about their anger at growing old than the state of our youth.
...and then he marries someone his mother doesn't like :))))))))))))))))
when you are stupid everyday is a new adventure
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Are you just biased
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Adults: The young generation is terrible; who raised them?
Young generation: You.
Adults: *Surprised Pikachu face*
What the heck is a pikachu face ?
@@eremite777it's probably some kind of drug
@@AlfaToTheOmegawhat generation are you?
@@AlfaToTheOmegaplease tell me ur not being serious 😮
@@vJocelynnwhat? He's right, it's a drug.
It's not blame. It's greed. "You aren't doing enough for me".
We use our own experiences to judge others assuming that they have not had the same troubles and come up with different choices. We cannot even fathom a choice other than our own.
It's either
-greed
-moral panic
-old people simply complaining
@@danielthedudeSo much this. How many so-called scholars and sages only got anywhere near as well regarded as they were because entirely too many people put entirely too much value on the bitter bitching of septuagenarians for no reason but they lived long enough to get that old in the first place? Certainly half of the “great ancient philosophers” had very little to say that was remotely novel even in their own time, and even less that had so much as an iota of value even for philosophy.
Also, some of these statements were just old people and people in authority being salty that they weren’t just being given blind respect. These were times when you were deemed worthy of respect simply for being old. While that may have actually held more weight back then due to shorter lifespans and slower advances in technology and lifestyle, nowadays it’s stupid to hold someone in esteem for just existing a little longer. These days any simpleton asshole can have a long life. A lot of older folks have a bad attitude because that was the era they grew up in, where you respect your elders no matter what, no matter the circumstances. They’re just mad that we don’t blindly suck them off for the sake of being old and don’t let their willful ignorance slide.
@@mckinnonwolf7877
I guess you hold no respect for anyone, not even your own parents. No surprise there.
The problem with Gen Y and Z is that they think the world owes them a favour.
I am actually ashamed of my generation (Millennials) and the fact that they have caused the decline in humanity across the globe over the past decade.
Other cultures still very much respect their elders. The western way of generational battles isn't the norm across the world.
“Man this new generation sucks”
My brother in Christ, you *made* the generation
The youth is forced to deal with the crap placed on them by their parents and grandparents, but somehow, it’s always their fault. It’s been that way forever and it will continue to be that way.
Given the amount of awareness we've got about the issue, maybe, if I were to be hopeful, we'll be able to break the cycle when it's our turn to be the parents
Just remember this when you'll be older :)
It’s called generational trauma, and these current generations are the first ones who seem to care about breaking the cycle.
Honestly Gen Z is the first generation i've seen that cares enough to break that generational trauma, like of course not everyone is doing it but a huge part of it is.
Let's be the generation to DESTROY that cycle!!!
I remember reading a sentence written in Arabic on a wall, which said
"They gave us a ruined world and said [to the youth] you are a failure generation"
2020: "it's because you're always on that damn phone"
1790: "it's because you're always on those damn books"
24 ac : it’s because you are always on the Bible
My social studies teacher once said that every generation complains about their youth. I can now see what he means.
My biggest fear is growing up bitter and resentful to the younger generations. It seems inevitable to turn out like this.
the greatest generation didn't. they were supportive of gen x and the millennials. it was only their own ungrateful kids they had words for
It isn’t, just do what’s right for you
If you have this fear, then I think it's unlikely you'll do it.
it sure is inevetable
Same 😢
But my advice is don't let adulthood control or take over u.
The reason adults blame younger generations is simple. As time goes on, developments will be made to make life easier than it was for the previous generation. Not only this, but styles, stereotypes, etc all change. Adults see kids with an easier life than them complaining, and think that their spoiled. The thing is, that complaining is likely a huge reason society is gonna continue to make inventions and gadgets that can make life easier for newer generations. If no one complained, no one would want anything to get better.
In addition to this, I feel as if the unknown element of a new technology's effect over time creates a certain wariness in people.
Also, in order to cope with the massive amount of hardship the average person goes through in life, our brains tend to think fondly about certain things that caused said hardship. When you see a new generation that doesn't have to deal with them, you think of yourself not going through things that have defined your life. Which leads naturally to many of the things you hear about the younger generations being weaker and such.
@@Reveticatei agree. I think that we (as humans) are not getting worse, we are just changing... like all the contest around us, but people before that see the context they lived in changed so brutally do not accept it, like a negation of the fall of all the stuff that made their mind be shaped like that and this actually keeps creating the generations gap. During the human evolution there were always been few people who accepted this in their little circle but the majority just can't i see ah ah.
Yeah, but as a parent, we are 1000% blamed and get to be treated like assholes for having entitled brats for kids. So, no. Im gunna give my kids a dose of persepctive because they really aint got it THAT bad. This is why history and generational wisdom is IMPORTANT.
The stupidest of children ignore it... and then they turn into dumbass narcissistic adults noone likes.
@@P.e.m.a. Parents take out their trauma on children out of frustration, what else is new
@@P.e.m.a.my generation is often blamed for not working hard enough because my parents (boomer generation) could afford a house when they were in their 30's and my generation should just work harder.
But that sentiment ignores changed variables. Whilst wages have gone up 30% in the past 40 years, real-estate became 430% more expensive!
I would literally have to work 95 hours a week to be able to afford that. Sorry but I work to live! I don't live to work!
Then I see the older generation complaining that we're spoiled snowflakes that only eat avocado toast and luxury coffee and that that is why we can't afford anything!
Reality is the opposite tho... avocado toast and luxury coffee is a small treat we buy ourselves to cope with life, cause we literally cannot afford anything else... it's an often completely misunderstood symptom of something much deeper!
It’s amazing that old people’s complaint is generally the same through the ages… like it’s all a part of getting old
I didn’t know they been saying the same since the 17th century
EDIT : I knew that they been saying the same since the 60s but not it had that much time
You can even say it today with gen z towards gen alpha, we talk about how "this generation is doo.ed" because of all of these tiktok trends and brainrot.
I feel like it really is. The young almost always bring change, and the old almost always fear change because their ability to adapt to it declines with age. Change is also stressful, even if positive; the old have (generally) experienced more stress than the young just because they've lived for longer, therefore they have a stronger desire to avoid new stress than the young do. Change is instability, change is uncertainty, and getting old inevitably comes to a moment where you want your life to be the opposite - stable and peaceful, the vibe you just can't get when there's change happening around. It's somewhat like "tired adult is annoyed by a kid being energetic" situation, but on a larger, less momentary scale.
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@@apoe5029 erm ok
"Curiosity comes wity being young, it's best you walk with him for a while. Or you'll risk losing him forever." -Mimir, God of War Ragnarok.
Yep. Even with TikTok and all that nonsense, there are still plenty of kids out there who are decent human beings. There's indecency in every generation, and the internet has done a wonderful job of letting us see that indecency. Too bad so many people have turned into angry, hate-filled individuals and express it so loudly on the internet. We need to be more positive and uplifting to each other. We're actually going to ger nowhere constantly bringing each other down.
Wisely spoken, every generation has its vices, and vitures. the best thing we can do is learn form each other and "hopefully" not make the same mistakes.
i mean, even before tiktok existed, people were doing dumb things for clout still
Kids today have been trained to be the perfect consumer, the perfect mob member of the mobiest of mentalities. The opposite of free thinking. The opposite of enlightenment. We are regressing in breeding.
The problem is anger baiting contents are so popular. Even on youtube recommended it is all about reactionary anti-something-ism takedown videos. Its so exhausting. Why can't we all talk about fun and beautiful things anymore???
Even hating TikTok seems nonsense to me. Every single problem that TikTok has, also does other platforms or at least something similar
I think that there is some truth to what Aristotle said. He wasn’t blaming young people, he was simply stating the fact that young people aren’t mature.
Aristotle: "What if... young people... aren't grown up."
Ancient Greeks: 🤯🤯🤯
Ofc they aren't matur THEY'RE 5 HOW ARE THEY MATRUE
That's the way I took it too. Everyone just had this egotistical "My generation is better than the younger generation!" Talk, but this guy was just talking about young people in general. It wasn't, "This younger generation is more foolish!" But rather, "Young people are more foolish, regardless of the generation they come from, mine included."
Ashley Cooper: What if... young people... had new technology
The House Of Commons: 🤯🤯🤯
And then his students took the wrong moral from it that the next generation was just worse.
And so it went on from there
Found this quote in a book once:
"Adults are like butterflies; they have forgotten what it was like to be a caterpillar once."
Edit: Comments section looks like classic internet
Edit #2: This is just a quote I found in a book. Love how people are just assuming things like "why is this calling childhood good". It isn't even related. Exactly why this is blowing up is absolutely beyond me, let me go to fucking sleep ffs.
The Little Prince?
@@williamminerva9171 I don't remember, but I don't think it was The Little Prince. The book certainly embodies the idea though.
Naah. My life as a catterpillar was not nice. :c
@@aishascarlet3164What's funny is that Butterflies often remember things like food sources and safe spaces from when they were a caterpillar.
@@sbeveloaf1120 Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks. Every day you learn something new.
It's so much easier to blame the next generation, but not those who are in power that cause the struggles through greed.
As someone in their 30's, I have heard this said regularly all through my life. I've heard it so often that even now, when people my own age are arrogantly dismissing entire future generations as lazy do-nothings that just want everything handed to them, all it ever does is dredge up memories in me about how my generation was spoken of like that. Still IS spoken of like that, even though we're all now in the work place, scratching a living like everyone else.
Just yesterday, someone at work uttered this cringe-inducing sentiment, about how young people come to work and then quit soon afterwards. I couldn't help but ask him what he thought they did afterwards. The truth is, they probably went to find a different job, since this one sucks. His response was essentially to say that they probably just went home to play videogames in their parents house.
It is astonishing to me that older people seem to think that the government just rolls out the red carpet for young people to do whatever they want, despite not being able to point to a single instance of it, never experiencing it when they were young, and not being able to take advantage of whatever imaginary system of overt welfare they seem to think kids these days live on.
This is the US. One of the least socialised countries in the industrialised world. It is baffling how anyone deludes themselves into thinking that anyone other than the super rich get a free pass for anything.
100% correct my dude. I even got lumped in with those 10yrs younger than me because people think I'm in my mid 20s. I'm 36.
I was born in 1997 don't really know what generation that makes me but definitely a bit younger. I was working at a tourism company for a few months and the managers scolded my ass, I'd have to get a permission to go to the bathroom, the managers would pick who got the best clients, the shift was 3 hours longer than initially stated, they blamed me for not getting a deal from poor, rude customers (even when I'd informed them about it to clear my side) they cut off the wifi connection at some point. They cut out more than the daily salary because I spent 2 hours with a clinet and his wife because the 3 of us didn't have 1 mutual language, so 1 party was always translating therefore taking more time, they cut off mlre than the daily salary because I arrived literally 1 minute late, they wouldn't take any feedback regarding my clients and tell me to be quiet during workshps. I'd attend when horribly sick to the point that i fainted at work, they shamed me for spending my day off with some of my coworkers on a boat trip. The reason I quit was because they told me they'd allow me to continue working for them but with no salary, and I'd only be making money off of deals, when I refused they berated me on how I was lazy, disrespectful and not wanting to work hard and that's why I wasn't able to make any deals like my coworkers. They said "you're too young to understand the value of money and ethics and how far respect to the older generations who know better than you can take you, you refuse to learn and you just want to be babied" no, you refused to teach me based on MY work experience, I'm the one sitting with the client and they deadass tell me noway the client said or did that. Sir, you go sit with the client then. They just wanted me to tell them that they were always right and I was always at fault. the manager once started an argument with me because I was excusing myself for a bathroom break but he didn't hear me. I asked again and to confirm I asked "did you hear me?" He berated me on how I was rude and how I should be more kind.
Literally EVERYONE that worked with me dropped them while or after i did, apart from their 3 favorites, of course.
@maryamshaaban74 you are the first Generation Z. The cutoff is 1996.
Also sorry you had yo deal with so much shit from those people. It's baffling how the older generations can see young people working in front of them and then call them lazy....
@@s70driver2005 thanks for the info and thank you for sympathizing. I'm still baffled by the fact that they cut off more than my daily salary because I worked MORE.
1000‰ true. Also, in regards to your last paragraph, USA is also full of people that consider "socialism" a bad thing without really knowing what it means, which is so sad.... considering people like this can vote. They are stuck on attacking anything that even remotely goes out of their comfort zone, because unknown = bad. SMDH.
And that’s why it’s important to learn history. To learn from our mistakes and to stop repeating ourselves for the hundredth time.
But it seems that humans have been learning for centuries but have never stopped.
I have to disagree. Millennials know full well what it's like to be blamed as a generation (millenials aren't buying houses, think they're too good for mayonnaise, are killing off the middle child by not having more than 1 or 2 kids, some of the most ridiculous ones I can recall), yet here we fucking go complaining about Gen Z/generalizing the whole generation whenever one teen makes a stupidly reasoned tiktok
Yeeeep
And yet, here we are, still making the same mistakes…
The most important thing you learn from history is that nobody learns from history.
I can't believe you left out my absolute favourite one about the younger generation relying too much on paper instead of good old fashioned engraved slabs.
Ah yes, rock sheets. Seems like a good idea, actually. Maybe one day there’s a way we can use ink on stone. Maybe we’ll just rely on modern tablets instead, I think I’ve seen an advertisement about it before
The worst part of all of this is knowing damn well that current and future generations will not improve this.
I don’t want to be this kind of adult. I want the next generation to feel empowered
Same
Hopefully our generation will do some changes.
@@ocxtober31stxhave you ever blamed kids using tik tok? If yes, then you are definitely one of us blamer adults now. Unfortunately I did do such stuff, like mucking the Gen z for being so stupid and acting like they were animals.
@@Alwaysright42250 As a Gen Z teen, no, I don't blame kids using TikTok, I blame their parents and the platform as its own. Nowadays parents should learn from what happened with my generation, aka "cringe generation", and be more mindful about controlling kids activity in the internet in a healthy way. Kids raising it's their responsibility after all. Even though I'm not going to lie, sometimes I'm fearful of repeating that same mistake as a mother because of not understanding technology of my kids time, something I guess I must work on.
But not the braindead types
We have always lived in a society where the ones who raised the kids are the first to complain on their kid's upbringing.
Couldn’t the complaints come from either people who have no kids of their own, or people who are perfectly happy with their own kids but are appalled by other young people in society, in effect complaining about how other kids are raised?
It’s a funny thing how people here comment that ”funny how you complain about the youth you yourself raised” like, I’m sorry, did I personally raise this entire generation of kids singlehanded and therefore I’m not allowed to complain?
@@adamnilsson566 accountability. That's what matters. If parents can't take up the fact that they lack parenting skills, they end up with a spectrum of reasons which imply that their kid is the problem. No parent knows parenting completely. But no one can learn without accountability and conviction. And when parents don't have that trait, they end up as a parental failure blaming their inability on their kids.
@@ashwathks784 You seem to miss the point I'm trying to make, I'm not saying there aren't bad parents who complain about kids, I'm saying that throughout history, with all the complaining about "the young people today", it is entirely possible that some of the people complaining are either (voluntarily or involuntarily) child free, or they are good parents who are proud of their own children, but dislike how their kids peers act.
This entire comments section seems to make fun of people complaining about young people as if every single person throughout the history of man has had children of their own, which they all failed to raise properly, and so no-one is allowed to complain because they are the problem.
That is what I reacted to.
@@adamnilsson566 well the people who are commenting here, as I see, are products of the parental failures. These guys have pain and suffering in their hearts, that can't be put in words so easily. They deserve to say what they want to say. Nothing more and nothing less of what they think. What can you expect for people in pain to do? Suck up all the pain and have a good night sleep so easily? Only if it were that easy. There is an unbearable pain in a parental failure, mate. Try to understand it.
@@adamnilsson566 I respect you to you admitting that you reacted. But sometimes you gotta let people say whatever they want to, coz If they can't say what they want to, they will find another means of saying things, but it is not going to be pleasant.
I’m 38 years old and I’m already starting to see my fellow millennials do the whole “kids these days” stick. I will do my best to never be that kind of person. I remember what it was like to be young. You’re still figuring things out. You’re afraid. You’re anxious. And you’re still growing. Older generations are just way too hard on younger generations.
As an adult Gen Z (23), thank you
Yes, I see it, too. And I'm like did you forget how hard millennials were trashed on? Why continue the cycle instead of breaking it? I think that's every generations task to break the cycles that were damaging and upheld before.
@@anahnnemus5187 Amen! Break the cycle.
But Bushbasher... Kids these days don't know how it was like to catch your first shiny pokemon, they all do the whole buy skin thing in their fancy computer online video entertainment games...
It is an absolute travesty...
@@anahnnemus5187Or maybe it is part of a natural cycle.
The young naturally breaks conformity, while the elders encourage conformity.
I find it funny that no one questions whether this isn't just a natural part of being human?
200 years ago novels were seen as vectors of depravity and young people were discouraged from reading them. Jane Austen pokes fun at this in her novel Northanger Abbey, which also includes a scene in which an older couple decries what the 'youth of today' have become.
Reads like the thesis for an English essay lol
How did they demonize novels?!
@@mikafizz1022Same way they demonize phones
Imagine they know what we got today ? 😂
To be fair though, too much tech doesnt seem healthy from what we currently know 🤷🏻♂️
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Bro just tossing around thy randomly 😭
@@lemonadesaccounttm8721 Thy humor of thy is very of thy corruption so thy forth for thy must be thy for adding thy thy to every thy old of thy scentences
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Great comment, except they didn't have TVs yet in 1924.
@@solomon1995able eh close enough
3.4 billion years ago: All these cyanobacteria and their photosynthesis, back in my day we ate chemical soup from underwater geysers
This makes it clear that this concept has nothing to do with generational changes in society over time, it's simply the difference between adults and children. The amount of your childhood you forget by the time you're an adult has convinced people that they were never like that.
It doesn't make anything clear. It's just simple excerpts from each singular individual who wrote those articles. I certainly didn't forget my childhood, and it's not hard to see how social media negatively impacted gen z.
there absolutely are negative effects of tech on younger people. I dont have the link to the study, but one of a town that couldn't get a tv signal until the 70's showed they scored higher on emotional stability, attention span and all other intellectual markers than their peers elsewhere in the country. The Internet's probably made things worse.
@@bmetalfish3928”one study” is worthless every single time anybody cites it and people should stop doing it; there has never been any value to any singular study without it being compared to the general consensus among experts
@@bmetalfish3928💀💀💀
@@arianghorbani1305 I sort of implied it isn't the absolute truth.
The philosophers are the only ones even getting close to the realization that this is a symptom of youth, not “today’s youth”.
It's extremely upsetting to realize that we've been blaming our younger generations for some or the other reason for centuries and continue to do so yet have failed to understand their perspective or even bother to try to learn the cure to this 'blame game'. The fact that we're all stuck in this never-ending vicious cycle of blame and misunderstanding is extremely obnoxious.
Understanding their perspective and letting them have their way are different. Teens are too immature to make most decisions. Too many bad parents let teens make their own decisions when they shouldn't. Understanding teens but they should also be taught that elders have experience.
@@lw1343They should also be taught which adults actually want to teach you and guide you and which adults want respect because they are adults. You should not generalize like this because it simply puts a limit on the freedom of our growing mind. Yes, too many parents don’t know their child to take the right route. Eventually, they are going to bu old enough to make their own decisions. What happens then? Since they are technically an adult, do we not shit on them anymore because they are not youth; the monster y’all so terribly despise? So many teens have so many ambitions with so many personalities that are shut down and redirected because of the older generation that is supposed to teach us, take care of us, and make sure that we are intelligent enough to go out on our own but for this to happen the way y’all want it to happen, take the risk of letting them “get their way” every single time.
@RandomShartyeah and old people are casually racist. I know which side I’d prefer to be on!
@@dugo9846 Right, thank you. I see a lot of children and teens get turned down by their parents and adults in life about their passions. Yes sometimes it can be because their passion isn't exactly the right way to go but more often than not I see harmless things being disregarded by parents who act as if they don't care enough to support their own child whom they brought into the world.
When youths do harmless things they want to do because they can, they are called spoiled. When youths don't go down the strictly set path their parents set for them without ever asking what they want, they're selfish. When they don't suffer the same as the older generation, they're weak and should be beaten down as hard as we were.
I don't get it. Wasn't the point of progressing as a society to make things easier for people in the future? Sure we find ourselves wishing things could've been the way they are now, before, so we could be just a little happier than back then like the current generation. But issues remain issues and problems remain problems regardless of the form they take. Generations will always have their own set of struggles and even if we can't really understand that like we understood ours is it really hurting anyone to at least try to understand and be patient?
At the end of the day, being the person your child can come to for reassurance and guidance all on their own is much more beneficial than belittling and insulting them. You can offer discipline and critique in a way that is constructive and not purely hurtful or a way to take your own unreasonable anger out on other people.
@RandomShart You oldies get extremely upset about everything in today’s world…
This phenomenon is actually so easy to understand. As we go through life and all it's experiences, we begin to change, manier times for the better but as we grow more older, we become more and more impatient with those who are just beginning to jump in the band wagon of life and starting their journey and experiences. So much so that, at one point in our lives we will even condemn ourselves when we were teenagers.
I really love how the old and supposedly wise expect the youth to amount to great things and "fix" their past mistakes when they continuously pin us as spoiled, worthless, and privileged.
Yet you keep voting for geriatric white men who are 15 years past retirement age as your President… and you’ll do it again in 2024. 90 year Feinstein, who should have been in a nursing home, had to die to get her out of office. Yet you all voted her in office in the first place.
@@Pavia1525If the choice is between a 90 year old with dementia and an energetic fascist who wants to genocide the transes, I’m going to pick the 90 year old every time without hesitation.
That's not a universal attitude. I'm 82 and not like that at all.
@JosephWood1941-iz6mi I don't personally believe that is universal. I believe that everyone has the capacity to be good or immoral and to not hold everyone to the same standard as one person or their singular beliefs. There are plenty of adults and the elderly who don't patronize the youth, but this philosophy is still present nonetheless.
and you'll catch yourself doing the same when youre old too. and thus the cycle perpetuates...
Also who the HELL prefers climbing a “corporate ladder” to hiking. The fact that this is even a complaint is mind-blowing.
It’s an out of context quote referring to how they don’t want to work.
@@wienersmcbutts
Well yeah i understand that lol. But the fact that they think the only way to work and be successful is “climbing a corporate ladder” is so depressing. Hmm i wonder why people don’t want to “work” in the traditional sense?
that's how much the zeitgeist has changed since the 90s
I'm super grateful that my mom told me early and often "Every generation always thinks that the world is ending, and that it's all the fault of 'those darn kids'". I think it's helped me avoid falling into this mindset. I'm squarely a millennial but an old enough millennial now to be getting a little judgy, and I think the younger adults and kids these days are pretty great. I love the increase in take-no-crap attitudes and the ingenious creativity that I see in them. There is much that's wrong with the world, but many people my age (and some older ones too of course) are trying to steer it in a better direction, and I'm truly excited for how the next generations will capitalize on our start and where they'll take things.
yeah dude. instead of just hating, you seem to be one of the people who look at all the exciting things. a good attitude to life :D
How are you and others in ur generation trying to steer it in a better direction/path?? I’m genuinely asking and curious cause I wanna know what I can do as a 21 year old freshly going into adult society and stuff
@@The-Legend-of-Pyeah I'm 20 and I want in on that insight too 👀
@ItsAsparageese
Tell us the answers oh wise one!!
@@qwirky1709 let’s hope he responds
For me, a sign that someone has aged and is stuck in a world that doesn't exist anymore is when they start blaming the younger generations for their problems or trying to act superior.
I'm an elder gen z (2000), I remember online when I was 14 to 17 years old, people were complaining about millennials, and tumbler. Now people are attacking Gen Z and forgotten that millennials did the exact same stuff. Watching this makes me feel relieved that people will forget about us and end up moving to the next generation, then the generation after that, and so on. But also, it makes me feel depressed that this has been going on for many generations even before the boomers. Its a cycle of hating the youth.
Edit: corrections of my sentences
I know my comment will be lost in the sea, but I had to put it out there. Hopefully elder folk and younger folk will understand
And because they forget our society on fast track to unavoidable doom. Every generation is one step closer to ignorance and glorifies stupidity, we'll have our own idiocracy soon
Elder gen z here as well (1999). I’ve always assimilated more with the millennial generation than I ever have with gen z. Thus I guess it makes sense that I’m more disappointed in “my generation” than I am proud. Tho with every generation there are differences and there are similarities in their strengths and weaknesses, but values wise it feels as if things have declined. With that said it’s not just gen z, but the world in general, so I wouldn’t wholly put the blame on the youth
I'm not sure why, but it's starting to seem like it's human nature to hate your successors.
Yeah I'm born in 2010 (younger Gen Z) and people are now complaining more about Gen Alpha since they were glued to screens their whole life (unlike boomers who didn't have screens for most of their lives, similar situation for Gen X) so yeah, we won't be forgotten, but we won't be hated either!
I think the Aristotle quote has to be considered more of a general observation of young people in general than a critique of the younger generation of his time. It is true that young adults (18-24) feel more confident about their ideas, but as they age past 25 and actually start interacting with the world and mixing up with people from all walks of life they become more flexible and question a lot more what they took for granted in their youth
I think that plato's quote would be more fitting for this video: "What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
I think that was the point. We've known about this phenomenon for millennia, and Aristotle had already pinned down the cause perfectly all the way back then. Yet the cycle of endless blame continues, and nobody seems to realize that, well... kids will be kids.
it's kinda funny how you get MORE open minded as you age at first, I assume that reverses at some point tho
@@anima94well yes, at first your brain is deceloping and past some point it stops and as you age it slowly becomes slower as some neuron connections die
I had thought since the quote would be written on the youth he observed, and the only youth he observed as an adult WERE his younger generation (but I agree Plato's is much more fitting).
I remember my friend telling me we'd never end up like this. Fast forward ten years, and it's endless complaining about TikTok, influencers and more. I used to try reminding him what we always said, but gave up a few years back. Even if a person is aware of this trap, they can still fall for it.
I want to empower younger generations when I get older.
@@Lussimio There will be me and a million people like me to undo the progress sadly lol.
Thing is Gen Z is already doing this to Gen Alpha. They talk about how kids nowadays suck and how the 2010s were "the golden era". Like bro, wtf you hating on literal children for? The oldest Gen Alpha is literally 13 and the youngest still hasn't been conceived yet. They haven't even reached their teenage years and they're already being hated
@@thaicat8181 Yup. But Ohhh they're the angels, they're gonna break the cycle LOL
@@thaicat8181 oh, I believe it. It's a never ending cycle, seemingly.
Still true to this day with how Gen Z complaining about how their brainrot is better. As if skibidi toilet isn't any worse than MLG and epileptic YTP edits. We're all fated to be pretentious to young people, I guess.
We're better for not wanting children in this horrible world. Guess what, we found it this way.
My sibling is the first generation gen alpha so as an older gen z myself i didn't let them watch any skibidi toilet practically meaning i saved them lol. Also i never watched these edits