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thestobingirlie · 1 year

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(Same anon complaining about fruity four)

Oh my god, the casual homophobia in teens these days, especially from within the community. I'm older genZ, at 25. I have been openly queer for over a decade.

When I first came out all the homophobia I saw/ experienced was from outside the community, casual use of the f and d slurs, using gay as an insult/ synonym for bad, using fruit/ fruity in a derogatory way, and your typical hate crimes/ hate speech.

Now, most of what I see/ hear comes from LGBT+ teens. I have heard teens in a pretty conservative town asking other people (Including adults) if they're fruity. Loudly discussing how strangers are "obviously queer" without caring who is around. And the whole trend of "Is he y'know *limp wrists*?" And the push of micro labels onto almost everyone, who don't want or need to use them.

This links back to the whole "fruity four" thing, because all of these things are used in so many fics for them. Eddie will be limp wristing at everyone. They'll all be describing themselves as fruity. Steve will keep using the word queer to describe his sexuality. Yeah, sure creative liberties and whatever. But it feels unrealistic for a group of teens in the mid '80s. They wouldn't be using all these things that are common in kids now, because they were used in a very derogatory and dangerous way in the '80s. They're teens in a small town in the '80s, they probably wouldn't feel comfortable reclaiming the word queer, let alone half the other stuff they get written as doing when they're written as queer. And they wouldn't be well versed in queer culture of the time, let alone that of today.

i think the reason for this is that these teens are only experiencing queer culture online. the most they get in real life is a commercialised version of pride. all they really know are tiktok comments, where it’s encouraged to imply someone is gay, and loudly discuss what a celebrities sexual orientation might be. outing someone isn’t seen as bad because coming out is seen as a necessity now. i’ve even seen people say that it’s morally wrong and lying not the tell someone you’re gay, which is just insane.

i’ve even seen this post critiquing the word queer because it’s “too vague”… wtf. and yeah! there’s this weird thing where people expect you to totally analyse every aspect of your sexuality and gender and have the perfect word to describe it, and if you don’t totally fit what they think a sexuality is, you’re wrong. and it’s so tiring.

some fics just make it so obvious that they’re writing from a 21st century perspective. like, i’m not saying to write the teens being violently homophobic or anything, but you’ve just got so many st teens treating sexuality with a gentleness and understanding the complexity of it that they just wouldn’t have.

like, robin always knows what bisexual is in fics, she knows the word for it, and she knows exactly what steve is before he even knows. and eddie is flagging and knows exactly what every colour flag mean and he’s a sado dom in small town indiana. and it’s like, get a grip.

i think, when it comes to like robin and steve, it wouldn’t be until they left hawkins, and moved into a city and actually started interacting with queer culture that they would start to refer to themselves with labels. i think in a town like hawkins, where an identity is used to insult you and you really don’t have any other queer people around, it’s harder to just call yourself a dyke or queer. (which is why i love stobin in their 20s exploring queer culture and being able to feel comfortable in themselves and the way they present, because they just really couldn’t do that in the teens).

#steve harrington #robin buckley #eddie munson #nancy wheeler #stranger things #asks #anon

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jaythelay · 1 year

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Ay, Millienials and Gen Z, whatever generation is out there now, you want them to be better? Start by listening to kids.

You want a better future? An actual one? They're it. They're the last line of humanity to live in this era.

Listen. To. Kids. Just because they're too inexperienced to formulate their words distinctly and appropriately, doesn't mean they aren't utterly terrified and utterly utterly utterly alone.

Boomers showed us EXACTLY what to avoid when the village raises a child. You want to know why the republican MAGA train took off? Because we've never known a sense of community. Most of us can count the number of friends in their entire life on one hand. Disenfranchised youths get pulled into this bullshit because they fell through the widening cracks.

Right now, kids are being forced into slavery just to keep minimum wage down. For a fact this was done to inspire another boomer/GenZ divide, given the fact min wage is unlivable but meant to be. 3.85 vs 7.25, you know who's getting hired to keep wages low. In an era of Unprecedented Wealth Gaps and Record Profits.

Right now, kids are being forced to give birth and die due to rapists being empowered by republicans. They can't explore themselves sexually growing up, let alone ask Very Necessary Birds and Bees shit their dipshit parents never taught them, you want to know why most men can't find the fucking clit? No friends, terrified of sex, no social skills, no one to ask for help without ridicule.

Right now, kids are being seperated from their parents for not conforming to a christian white format of living. Bounty hunters are after their moms. If not republicans.

Right now, Kids can't trust teachers, police, doctors, no one. They're not safe at school, they're not safe outside, they're not safe inside. And having a gun doesn't in anyway reduce the chances of them being shot, it has CONSISTENTLY been shown to only raise child gun related deaths.

Right now, more than our generation, kids are Fucking Terrified. Rightfully, and that's fucking Mortifying. These kids don't get to fear the shadows in the hallways at night, they have to actually be scared someone is in that hallway. That a police officer raided the wrong fucking house again. That a white supremecist saw a facebook post by their parents.

Right now: KIDS ARE ALONE, COMPLETELY ALONE.

Republicans WANT to stir up a culture of pedophilic fears,

fears they made actually happen themselves,

They WANT adults to abandon children in a world of cruelty. They WANT you to be scared to even be around a child. They NEED that disconnect, that severance between generations, it's another culture war as always.

So, please. Patience. Listen. Fucking Be There for them. Because Boomers weren't for us, emotionally, physically, fiscally, they pulled that ladder so fucking hard on us before we were even adults.

Don't be scared of children. They're more scared in general than you are of them.

#kids #future generation #GenZ #boomers #millenials #republicans #gop #abortion #socializing #rvw #roe vs wade #generational divide

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thelogicalnerd · 1 year

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How Republicans are trying to solve their GenZ problem

The far right knows that the majority of their base is getting older and that GenZ does not look promising for them. So, what are they doing to try to correct this?

Banning Books

The far right knows that educated people are more likely to lean left, so removing books that don't align with their views from schools is step 1. If kids can't read about left-leaning ideas then they can't grow up to be progressives, right?

Whining about CRT and DEI

The far right knows that if young people grow up in a world where they understand that hate, racism, and bigotry is something to fight against, they won't be able to fearmonger about "the others" like they do now.

Attacking Trans Kids

The far right knows that if kids grow up with love and acceptance of their trans peers, their extreme religious views will have less power and more people will turn away from the church.

Giving Some Parents "Rights"

Trying to pass Parental Bill of Rights laws that do not include the right to make healthcare decisions is a clear power grab meant to give Conservative parents more rights, while taking away rights from Progressive parents. You can't get any more blatant than this.

School Choice Laws

Passing laws that give vouchers, funding, etc. for kids to go to private school (AKA, religious schools) so they can indoctrinate more kids while making the taxpayers fund it.

Attacking "Woke-ism"

Trying to use the word Woke in a derogatory way at every turn in the hopes that young people will want to distance themselves from it.

Attacking TikTok and Social Media

By trying to curb how much access young people have to social media, they're trying to stop them from discovering new ideas that could expand their minds and their understanding of the world around them.

Other tactics include...

Trying to insert religion into schools, trying to use their religion to control women, getting children into the workforce early, getting children to get married early, attacking the tech industry, fighting work-from-home policies, and so, so much more.

The Silver Lining?

As conservatives try to oppress an entire generation, they push that generation into fighting back. The more of a spectacle they make of it and the constant culture war antics they engage in, the sooner it because clear to their supporters that they have no real policies to stand on.

The right is so steeped in corporate greed that they can't actually create any policies that will help the average person without pissing off their donors. They know this and they know their only hope is to keep people angry at each other when they're the ones we should be angry at.

The right pretends to be the party of freedom and liberty, but they are oppressors through and through.

#trans rights are human rights #gen z culture #politics

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aix12279 · 1 month

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INTRODUCTION to Global Politics :D

If we're going to be exact and fancy, here's a definition of what Global Politics is:

"... the study of the interactions and conflicts between nations, international organizations, and non-state actors, and how these affect our world."

Of course, some of these terms may be unfamiliar to you, specially if you're not someone who interacts with politics a lot, or not with the 'technical terms' , but we'll get to those with enough time. Global Politics (or Glopo, as I'll be calling it from now on, that's just so much easier to write I'm sorry) essentially refers to a lot of stuff, it talks about stuff as 'small' as simple trade and diplomacy, to things as big as national security, war, and human rights, so, it covers lots of stuff.

In a couple of words, glopo is all about power, who has power? How is that power used? How is it shared? And to answer those questions, it looks at the interests, the values, and the ideologies of all the people, organizations, etc. (or actors, as they're referred to in IB Glopo) that have even just a little itsy bit of that power that we just talked about, and how those characteristics of each actor involved in power influence the politics of the whole entire world. Think of it as, how do Donald Trump's (an actor) values as a conservative and interests as the US' ex-president influence the politics of other countries, such as Mexico, India, China, etc.

So. Why glopo? I think for my generation (lol hi fellow genzs) this is a relatively easy question. Our generation is famous for being very actively involved in politics, protests, all that good stuff. But, still, even though we may be a generation that's very informed of politics, it may not be with the correct technical terms, or there may be some things that happen in the international scope of politics that we don't quite understand.

Glopo is important because nowadays, what happens in the US matters in Mexico (viva mexico WUUU), what happens in Canada matters in India, and that matters in Nepal and Pakistan, and so on. Our world, nowadays, is extremely interconnected, so it's not enough anymore to now the politics of only your country and the very close neighbors. Also, if we want to be more involved in political issues, we should know politics; if we want to speak about things such as climate change and how that's a political issue, poverty and how that's a political issue, terrorism and how that's a political issue, then we should know the politics behind and that come as a result of those issues. And in that same branch, if we know politics, then we know how to solve those problems, what tools we need, how we need to address them, and so on.

There are three main theories that are important to understand politics, and while the IB Glopo curriculum does go into more detail about them, here's how they work briefly:

Realism: This theory basically says that if we want to understand glopo, we should emphasize that nations act in self-interest, that the goal of their actions is, at the end of the day, the pursuit of power

Liberalism: Liberalism is basically the optimist sibling of realism. Liberalism believes that we should look at things through the lenses of cooperation and promoting democracy, that although nations may not have... very good intentions, we should still try to work towards cooperation, democracy and human rights

Constructivism: This one... Idk how to describe this one actually LMAO. It's basically saying that if you really wanna understand why actors do the things they do, you should look at the ideas that they have, the identity that they're a part of, it's basically the "it depends" amongst the three, the one that looks at cultural context a lot

There are many glopo issues, like, too many to count them probably LMAO, but ones that come up a lot can be basically categorized into:

Climate change. It's not only the weather getting hotter girlies it's actually kinda really important when it comes to policies, global action on the part of actors, and all that good (not-so-good) stuff

Nuclear proliferation. I mean. Yeah. I think we'd all be lying a little bit if we said we're not just a lil bit scared that certain very powerful people will just go like 'actually let's bomb something with nuclear power' and we all just end up kinda dead

Human rights. Specially when it comes to the human rights of minority groups in particular nations or regions (like, idk, a uhm... GENOCIDE going on on multiple parts of the world)

Migration. People moving from their countries of origin to look for refuge, security, a better quality of life, and then how the countries receiving that migration react to it. my mexican people we know these one all too well lmao

If these types of issues interest you and you think you could work on something like these in the future, there's a lot of things you can specialize in! You can be a: foreign service officer, international organization staff member, political analyst, journalist, NGO worker, security and intelligence analyst, and many, many more.

Of course, always be careful when it comes to politics. Wish I could say it's a safe and peaceful career path but I think we all know it's anything but that, specially if you don't intend on being... not corrupt pieces of shit nice. But even if maybe you're not looking at Glopo for a career, it's still very important to understand what's going on in our world when it comes to politics; the actions of very powerful people affect us directly, and if we wanna do anything about it, it's always good to know these kinds of stuff

Have a good life everyone<3

#IB #international baccalaurete #global politics #ib glopo #ib global politics

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reilleclan-blog · 1 month

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Hot Takes

I really don't like when ppl record strangers and then post it for clicks and likes. Especially when said person is either on drugs or homeless.. or just out of it. It's really strange to just record that person, I've grew up in an area where ppl "tweakin"(yeah tweakin is being so high off some shit that ur body is spasming and or u possibly od. Ur not "tweakin" b/c a new product ur excited about finally dropped. Please stop using AAVE if u are not black and don't know the context of these words. It's not "genz" slang it's Ebonics. Or keep using the words and be fucking dense and inconsiderate cause "everyone else says it") and seeing someone be addicted to drugs is very scary thing to see cause there's not much help for them and most ppl don't have many other options, so ppl would rather take drugs.

Also I really don't find memes as funny anymore b/c most memes used is just a black person being black, or a black person's features being used as the joke. And when u call ppl out for it we are mostly gaslight and told "it's just a joke". I've also seen wayyy too many ppl use black ppl in PAIN as a running joke or a "haha funny" clip in a yt video. It's also just desensitizes Ppl even more when it comes to seeing Black ppl in pain or struggling. Even stuff from TikTok's sounds ppl use would be of someone having a mental break and then thousands off ppl will use the sounds being like it's "for the funnies" it's just weird to me.(there was an entire trend of ppl pretending to be shot, come to find out the guy who started the "trend" was genuinely sharing about the trauma he went thru and ppl took it as a joke. Also he was a black man)

The fact that media will include making the most ridiculous rap names like "big cheese" or "big killa bunny" or some shit makes me think it's supposed to be "funny" obviously. These rappers have the "goofiest" names so let's make them even goofier. The thing is AGAIN that is something from BLACK culture that hollywood wants to make fun of. Again denying black ppl's identities when all the name is is a "punchline" to how "silly black ppl name themselves". Even when black Americans had to reinvent themselves after slavery we decided to make up our own names like Daquan or Lashawnda and in school systems or any system really apparently those names are "too hard too pronounce" we had ideas to make our own names and a lot of the help of creating those came from, Arabic backgrounds and some Muslim links. A white person can name off 10 different dog breeds but can't fathom trying to understand a black person's name. We are seen as sub-human. Some ppl genuinely believe black ppl are a different species all together , it's pretty sad

Also has anyone actually seen a dead body in their lifetime. A dead body in front of their eyes? I haven't but I watched this young man spasming or "tweaking" on the train stop home. His body was laying vertically on the bench, as he "tweaked". And there was nothing I could do for me. There was an ambulance that came but who knows if he was alive or not. I later on had a panic attack and started hyperventilating cause I guess it got to me.(I have a issue knowing when my body is in stress or something effects me) but i think it triggered me so bad b/c I lost 2 of my cousins to gun violence and they were also heavily doing drugs. (Now that I think about it I wonder if anyone else would've pulled out their phone and started recording the kid. There was another lady that got off when we saw him on the bench, but her response was "I gotta get out the city"🤷🏽‍♂️) idfk

Idk I say all this to say I wish the world would change I wish ppl gave a fuck about anything. And I wish young black ppl didn't think their only way out of "this life" was doing drugs or having a baby for fulfillment or acceptance. I wish BLACK ROYALTY knew how special we are.

#virtual photography #cyberpunk 2077 #black #text

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hebblog · 8 months

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This dude's opinions are pretty strong, and I don't think I 100% fully agree with them, but it is a stance on generations interactions with tech / the real world I hadn't really thought about. AND it also got me thinking about GenX...

My parents are Boomers, my older bro is GenX (me and my lil bro are Millennials) - and it's crazy to think about how GenX basically disappeared from the cultural zeitgeist. What I mean is; growing up in the late 80's / all of the 90's, GenX was everything. All of pop culture was directed towards them, politics were either fighting agains them or trying to win them over, parents were constantly trying to figure them out...they were everything. Even nowadays, GenZ is dressing like them, listening to their music, editing their content to look like it came from that era, etc. But actual GenX'ers aren't talked about in that context at ALL anymore. For example; Elon Musk is part of GenX, but I'm willing to bet everyone considers him to be just a crusty old guy. For the most part I feel like GenX has been lumped in with Boomers as being "out of touch old people" in a way that Millennials won't be - because of our connection to popculture, tech and the online world in the way that is talked about in the attached video! Also in a much simpler way; you just never hear the term "Gen X" being thrown around anymore. It's like one of the most powerful generations who built themselves up as being "against the grain" allowed themselves to be swallowed up by the people they claimed to be against. Kinda sad.

#blog #daily thoughts #gen x #gen z #millennials #boomers #pop culture

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rose---child · 10 months

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Ignore this

Tbh I don’t reconize “gen alpha” as a real thing just like I still think “gen x” is stupid as a term.

I didn’t have to grow up hearing about the other terms like “the me generation” from boomers to just have people accept some bland marketing term. I call it “gen y2k” due to the fact that it’s actually a fun term. Also the fear that came out of the y2k virus scare in the 90s feels almost like a preview of the wild nonsense that’s been happening for the last 23 years.

It’s not actually a big deal but, why are we accepting marketing terms as a identity? Shouldn’t we get to decide what we call ourselves?

Also when did “gen alpha” start and “gen z” end

Like we barley have a good indicator between millinal and gen z, what is the difference between z and alpha.

See these dumb terms made a lot of sense for the 20th century since it was structured IN AMERICA very well

Greatest generation: the progressive era

Silent generation: Great Depression

Baby boomers: post ww2, 1945

Then the problem starts and that’s that the Cold War lasted like 40 years, not 4

Baby boomers grew up with the their parents truama from having to be in 2 world wars, and the Great Depression and the red scare, and baby boomers had to deal with their own problems, but they also did exists during the greatest economic period of American history, but that’s probably due to the fact that America was a economic powerhouse and they just kept building their indusry during the war, then after it, they were the only ones left with factories since Europe was in ruin.

Baby boomers fought for civil rights when they were younger but as they grew older they made it hell for everyone else

Now with gen x and mallinals it gets murky between these 2 like they def are diff, but when and how is unclear to me

And that’s the point

Without some major event, it’s hard to tie down to one thing, we’re keeping these labels around without the need for them.

Early 20 somethings and teens as genz Isant that hard to say

“Kids”

Like we could get rid of the terms

And before you say “what do you mean event, we’re having major events all the time” yeah but which one is what shapes gen alpha to be a separate thing?

Y2k and 911 culturally changed things so much

Also between the late 90s-2008 technology kept evolving rapidly. When I was in kindergarten crt monitors were becoming aged already, but not uncommon to see in school.

By the recession, tvs went from crt to sleek black and homogenized flat screens

But now every other week a new major event is happening, so how do we decide when a gen is different?

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lets-talk-spirituality · 1 year

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When will you guys learn to hold two truths at once? Black and white thinking is why you can’t connect to the universe the way you want. // can we actually talk about how there's an entire generation of people that think this way? Idk what is is with GenZ but they can't think more than two truths at once, EVER! It's either "this" OR "that", and if you don't agree with theirh "this", then you're a problem for believing in "that". There's no nuance in any discussion with them.

I feel like this is most prevalently seen in cancel culture.

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intericsdigital · 1 year

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Childhood Passion turned into a India’s most popular streetwear brand amongst Genz

One name that has become synonymous with hip-hop fashion is Urban Monkey. A 2014 brand that has become highly popular in the Genz & Millennials because of its unique street style designs with precise quality. Yash Gaganwal, founder of Urban Monkey introduced this brand to provide much-needed products for the skateboarders, athletes & underground artists in India.��

Story of Yash Gaganwal, Founder of Urban Monkey

A 12 year old kid who loved skateboarding turned underground culture into his passion. Yash returned to India from Hong Kong at the age of 24, where he found skateboarding wasn’t much of a thing. He also noticed that where the sport did have proper equipment was also missing the hip-hop touch. That is when it actually struck him about the missing street culture in India & no real presence of any fashion brands to represent the culture.

Emergence of Urban Monkey

With no popularity in skateboarding, Yash joined a small skateboarding academy in Mumbai. His friend’s use to ask him to bring skateboarding equipment from Hong Kong. Thats it… this where the idea of Urban Monkey was born.

They started designing & selling caps & skateboards. A positive response from the crowd is what motivated the brand to push more and design other accessories as well including T-shirts, hoodies, glasswares & many more.

Urban Monkey gave streetwear recognition within the market. It emerged as youth fashion & has gained a lot of popularity as well. Today, Urban company collaborates with celebrities such as Rannvijay Sinha, Raftaar, Emiway Bantai & more.

How Urban Monkey boosted their business

From earning 30 thousand per month to 4.5 million in three years, Urban Monkey climbed the stairs of success in a very short span of time. You must be wondering how big this jump is. Well when you have unique products in your treasury along with impactful digital marketing strategies, then you’re definitely winning.

1. Improved their SEO: Urban Monkey was already strong from their side by producing some of the most unique and dope streetwear fashion but where they lacked behind was a poor SEO for their website. When Urban Monkey started growing, they launched their website trying increasing their reach & sales. From a professional SEO agency, the brand fixed their website for CRO (Conversion Rate Optimisation) & On-page SEO to increase their online traffic. With an improved CRO, the company received organic lead generation which also boosted their sales rate.

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3. Massive Collaboration & Appearances: After receiving a healthy recognition on social media and amongst the youth, the brand partnered with ‘Gully Boy’. The purpose behind this was to strongly support the underground artist and to show that their brand is truly based on ‘community first & genderless’ values. The brand even appeared on the famous Indian television show the Shark Tanks.

Results of using specific digital marketing strategies:

1. Increase in Return of Investment (ROI) by 125 times.

2. The traffic on website doubled

3. The revenue generated in the first 6 months grew by 40 times

4. The brand got 4 million new impressions Pan India

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moonstation888 · 2 years

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9/20/22: GenZ is cyber-punk AF, generational trauma and late stage-capitalism

Day to Day: Welcome to the blog <3

Hello internet people :) Let's talk GenZ being cyberpunk af, late-stage capitalism, and generational trauma. This is not and in-depth analysis of any sort. More of just a ramble, musings and observations about the world as someone young and living in it. (Many spelling errors ik, sue me I don't want to proof read)

I've been feeling very cyber-punk as of late. Maybe not the right word for it; i will try to describe it for you:

Its like this feeling of realizing here in the present, we are in the future and the future is now: The meta-verse, VR chat rooms, Twitch, Youtube, Influencers and para-social relationships creating a new aspect of the internet entirely where the collective public is your employer both in the sense they give you a platform and life you up into the public eye, and just as easily can rip it away and tarnish your career forever. It only takes a few people to get the ball rolling. On top of this: Phonk music becoming mainstream, winter approaching, internet pop-culture nostalgia, the acknowledgement of our world crumbling under late-stage capitalism slowly becoming more mainstream, the planet being destroyed as a consequence and the hopeless feeling of doom that accompanies it.

This younger generation has faced so much global upheaval since the second we were brought into the world, staring off with 9/11 irrevocably changing world dynamics and American sentiments, followed by the 2008 recession and stock collapse, Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon attack, (insert traumatizing event here), all the way to covid-19, the American Jan 6th insurrection, and so much more. We were promised a world of hopes and dreams to pursue by our elders but the dreams they promised were long gone, only the dust of them remaining. Thrown into a world on fire and told we have to do our part for the world, for the common good and participate, all the while unwittingly and absolutely blind to the way this generation has been forced to perceive the world when you are quite literally born into world-wide chaos and upheaval.

I here a lot from all the older generations "The young kids just don't want to work anymore. They're so lazy. The younger generation just doesn't care." Etc. Etc. And while this generation (Z that is,) is not exempt from having its faults I don't think this is one of them. Can you really blame us for "being lazy" (More accurately being depressed about the state of the world) when our desire not to work doesn't come from the desire to do nothing, it comes from the realization that working 40 hours a week for your entire life just so you can pay to exist is not actually living. Its just surviving.

And we are so sorry you, (older generations) and you're parents did have to live like this, but you don't get to project your societal trauma on us because you're upset we don't want to suffer under capitalism with you.

I think people forget that not wanting something to change because it has "always been that way" and they can't imagine things being done differently is actually a form of trauma, societal trauma. And so while I know its unfair of older generations to put the same expectations on the younger generation as they had, its also trauma that makes them think that. The generational trauma projected from parent on to child through out the years (and most of time unconsciously at that), that this is how life is supposed to be and life is just simply and naturally unfair.

But again, that is trauma talking. Life doesn't have to be unfair, we are conditioned and traumatized into thinking its just is naturally unfair. Its natural, that because of the color of your skin, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender identity, economic class, or ability, that you are pre-disposed to disadvantage in this world. That is not natural. And a lot of the younger generation recognizes this as a fundamental problem of the world. Not that there aren't people in older generations who recognize this, there are plenty and I wouldn't be here writing this without them, but in the grand view of generational sentiments they're fewer and farer between.

So no, I don't think this generation is lazy or "doesn't care" at all. I think its funny, people will say GenZ "doesn't care about anything" when it comes to supporting and upholding traditional, capitalistic, and binary standards but simultaneously we "care too much" when it comes to things like social injustices.

In reality I don't think either statement is true.

We simply do not care about the same things. That's it. That's the difference.

So where am I going with this, like what's the point? Because so far if you're reading this, I've probably managed to bum you out real good. Sorry! It gets better I promise. <3 Because while there is all this shit storm stuff to unpack about the world and its upsetting and feels hopeless, the fact that we're doing it, talking about it and recognizing it at all is a huge step forward. We can simultaneously recognize how f*cked the world is and also how great it is there are so many of us who realize this and want to fix it.

It's true our generation probably won't see the next economic stage of the world, but the fact is were going to be, and are, catalyst to that change and the deconstruction of capitalism as well as all the rigid constructs & binaries that support and keep it in power and vis-versa.

So I am here to tell you, Don't let yourself get sucked into endless, mindless doom scrolling (We've all been there tbh) because its not all bad. And, while cliché asf I know, the bad just makes the good and happy taste that much sweeter. As a collective our Generation must realize how much real power and influence we have through the internet and this crazy ability to communicate and organize all over the world. This tool at our fingertips has endless possibilities for change, and beyond that it would be crazy to act like we haven't already made change. This new wave of "cancel culture" (While at most times is not a productive use of collective power and is mis-directed anger) seems to be the start of this wave, taking back the collective power of the people. My use of cancel culture is more an example of how this generation can use the internet to start making real changes in the world. Cancel culture itself is not a good example of change (and I can make a separate in-depth post about my thoughts on this) so don't misinterpret me. Cancel culture is not an adequate example of where and what changes need made, but it is partially a good example of how to do it.

Times are changing rapidly and we downplay the influence of technology in these changes because we are living in it as it happens so its harder to see. But yes, technology is rapidly changing reality and now if anything has become so engrained in our daily life the internet in many ways just is reality now. I don't think we should fear this new age of internet upon us if it can help us create the changes we want to see in the world. I think the internet will be (and is) the biggest tool for this generation in being able to make global-scale changes.

Beyond all this I lastly want to talk about the cyber-punk atmosphere I've been feeling so hard lately and how it ties into all of this. This is now just me expressing my sentiments and value for this generation than any analysis. GenZ is very unique imo because for the most part we all grew up when the internet exploded and hit this new pinnacle of communication. Gone were chatrooms and forums and in came social media. If you really think about it, its f*cking insane that everyone before us only talked to people within their physical vicinity and we have casually been communicating around the world our entire lives. Its so normalized now to be able to communicate with anyone, at anytime, anywhere and we grew up with that as a pretty normal standard.

You have to think about how that shapes and changes the human psyche and collective consciousness. I sure do all the time. Its endlessly fascinating to me, the positive and negative effects all together.

But I think what makes this generation and the one after us so "Cyber-punk" is that because we grew up with the infinite internet, and while we see the irrevocable damages it has done to our mental health (as needed for any cyber-punk criteria lol), there's also so much solace in it. Lets be honest, a 40 year old is not going to find solace and comfort in scrolling on twitter for three hours and discovering the nooks and crannies and hidden gems the same way a teenager will.

Its not just the escapism that makes it comfy. The lull and current of pop-culture and endless mind vomit that pulls you in and does all the thinking for you, so that you might escape the overwhelming feelings about your life. No its not just that.

Its always just there. The internet can be your worst enemy, or it can be your best friend. But either way its not going anywhere. it'll be there during your worst moments and your best. And there's always going to be an endless steam of content to participate in, or watch from a distance. That's up to you.

The internet is the real city that never sleeps. Even if you log off or shut down it will still be happening. Its just happening somewhere else.

And I think there is a weird, dystopian, cyber-punk-like kind of solace in that for our generation, in the overstimulation, the chaos, the never ending infiniteness at our finger tips. Its an odd kind of paradox/ contradiction that you can find something over-simulating to be comforting but its true. The endless ways this concept ties into the effect of internet on our mental health's is a rant for another time.

But our generation really does find some level of comfort calming in the roaring chaotic storm that is the internet. Its familiar, we know it inside and out, we were in it for the birth and rise of it, much like a parent. Watching our kid take shape and personality, and ultimately grow into something new while we grow and develop alongside it. It creates this odd bond, this inextricable link and fondness for it that will never fade no matter how hard you try or how much it hurts you.

The soft glow of your screen at 3am accompanied by your eyes tripping out from staring at it all day, yeah it kinda sucks, but its still comfy. And that is truly cyber-punk asf of us GenZ.

Anyways, this is Moon Station.

Over and out b!tches, bros, and enby h0es.

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