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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.

I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.

I also think people stop adapting as they age, and intellect declines medically, leading to the impression that the younger are “smarter”.

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riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.

One has only to point a finger at the previous generation to figure out who is responsible for, “kids these days.”

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Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.

I think the latest generation is smarter in some technological aspects because they learn them in school. Older generations didn’t have that opportunity because those technologies didn’t exist then. When I have a technical question related to things like Iphones I always ask the youngest person that I know.

One advantage of older generations is that they actually lived during historic events while the young can only read an author’s interepretation of those events

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The generation that fought fascism in the West is almost completely dead. And so, here we go again.
  
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