We’ve raised an entire generation, Z, with rewired brains. Anxiety regarding anything even remotely resembling confrontation, including face to face interactions with humans. Not unlike Murderbot’s inability to directly interact without using his drones as a go between buffer for his own eyeballs. Minus the android strength, speed, and general badassery.
In addition, helicopter parents imbue a tendency towards the authoritarian. People are drawn to the familiar. Being told what to do, where to be, etc, instead of sorting through it yourself creates a “lean” in that direction. A passiveness to go with the flow. In addition to the need to avoid all that nasty anxiety that comes with anything even remotely resembling confrontation.
Not all, off course. We’re talking middle of the bell curve numbers here.
So unless GenX learns to move past their creaky joints, and millennials decide they’re punk too, no one is going to do anything outside of organized, specific, one day limited marches in nice weather.
GenX will likely die pushing people to free and open source and Linux, but that’s about all the rebellion against the system I think we can realistically expect from others here.
Hasn’t Gen X voted slightly more for trump than the alternative both times?
Millennials and Gen Z both voted against him with a sizable difference. Gen Z significantly more than millennials which surprised me given the reporting that keeps seemingly gaslighting me that the kids are all fascists these days.
If you’re gonna do this intergenerational conflict schtick, you should maybe try pushing free and open onto your peers and elders as they’re seemingly the ones in dire need of it.
We’ve raised an entire generation, Z, with rewired brains. Anxiety regarding anything even remotely resembling confrontation, including face to face interactions with humans. Not unlike Murderbot’s inability to directly interact without using his drones as a go between buffer for his own eyeballs. Minus the android strength, speed, and general badassery.
In addition, helicopter parents imbue a tendency towards the authoritarian. People are drawn to the familiar. Being told what to do, where to be, etc, instead of sorting through it yourself creates a “lean” in that direction. A passiveness to go with the flow. In addition to the need to avoid all that nasty anxiety that comes with anything even remotely resembling confrontation.
Not all, off course. We’re talking middle of the bell curve numbers here.
So unless GenX learns to move past their creaky joints, and millennials decide they’re punk too, no one is going to do anything outside of organized, specific, one day limited marches in nice weather.
GenX will likely die pushing people to free and open source and Linux, but that’s about all the rebellion against the system I think we can realistically expect from others here.
Hasn’t Gen X voted slightly more for trump than the alternative both times?
Millennials and Gen Z both voted against him with a sizable difference. Gen Z significantly more than millennials which surprised me given the reporting that keeps seemingly gaslighting me that the kids are all fascists these days.
If you’re gonna do this intergenerational conflict schtick, you should maybe try pushing free and open onto your peers and elders as they’re seemingly the ones in dire need of it.
You use Arch by the way, right?
Gen X are the ones that voted for Trump.
In terms of REP and DEM, genx rates didn’t change. Gen Z however….
Does it matter if they didn’t change if they were already voting Rep?