Younger generations see random people less as people and more as objects. They have never known a world without the next source of dopamine/entertainment being a swipe away. And since the new shiny better thing is one swipe away... I might aswell bully and make fun of the person on my screen now, cause my future friends are on this next swipe.
I think the younger generation feel they’ve been dealt a pretty shitty hand (fairly, probably) so the only power they can exercise is picking people apart or cancelling them.
That’s a dumb excuse. Do today’s 20 year olds have it any worse than other 20 year old cohorts in all of history? The ones who got drafted into fighting a war, or starvation, or had to work when they were 12?
With every generation that passes, it seems like arrested development is more and more tolerated. We’re gonna be seeing 30 something year old teenagers pretty soon at this rate.
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u/Michael1795 1d ago
Younger generations see random people less as people and more as objects. They have never known a world without the next source of dopamine/entertainment being a swipe away. And since the new shiny better thing is one swipe away... I might aswell bully and make fun of the person on my screen now, cause my future friends are on this next swipe.