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and generally horrifying information about the state of affairs. Some choice quotes:
People always say that every generation thinks the younger generation is getting weird, and is crazier. But I believe that what I am witnessing of the gen alphas is just completely different from the type of rebellion of my generation (gen z).
People will keep saying “we’ve always complained about the newest generation,” but society is fundamentally different now and it’s not just this generation. My parents are victims too, slaves to their devices. It seems like only some Gen X and Millennials are at least technologically aware enough to see what’s going on.
The screen and media addiction of generation alpha is actually an emergency that requires government intervention. Its literally like a black mirror episode what this stuff is doing to kids.
They are that incapable of looking at stationary with print on it. If it doesn't have a back-light and it doesn't move, it will not keep their attention.
In my experience (as a teacher) even the kids are aware of how bad this is for them. The term "brainrot" is a kind of "joking, but not really" piece of jargon that they use among themselves. The see their peers' and their own attention span being ruined by social media, and their peers falling into the fash pipeline. I think it's hard for a lot of them to muster much in the way of concern, though, because they also see that they're living in the last stages of a decaying empire and collapsing environment. It's hard to motivate someone to care about the future and their ability to succeed in it when it's apparent that the best case scenario for most of them is life as a peasant in a techo-feudal dystopia. If they don't die in the coming water wars, they're going to live as indentured servants to Peter Thiel; they have no chance of owning a home, affording a family, or achieving anything beyond living to die another day under the bootheel of the most ruthless capitalism the world has seen in over a century. Why not just watch TikTok all day?
God damn dude that sounds equally bleak and accurate. These poor fuckin kids.