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.

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[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

at least we're not still covering everything in leaded gasoline residue

No, instead we're covering everything in PFAS residue and filling every nook and cranny in the environment and our bodies with microplastics. And still refusing to clean up the lead where it continues to be found in the drinking water of poor and especially black communities.

[–] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

We did that before too.

Although the US is going pretty hard on trying to undo what weak protections already existed, and flint didn't have clean water for at least a decade (to name the most notable example). remarkable country to have such a sustained decline in life expectancy