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Regardless of how you phrase it, it’s still a lack of social engagement.

Do you think you’re the only generation surrounded by idiots? Most humans have been idiots for all of history. Is just that without digital media you’re forced to live with those people your whole life. Retreating into a digital world for your social and intellectual support isn’t the flex you think it is.

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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why should someone put up with dickheads who aren’t worth it?

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- TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s the “tradition”
  
  We put up with our parents shit so now you get the same shit. But in a more mental health conscious society we understand passing on the shittiness to the next generation is abuse, not a right of passage. Also the whole worldwide lead poisoning from gas thing messed with a lot of peoples brain chemistry (allegedly)
  
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- backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Because society has decided parental rights override teenage autonomy. Runaway and they’ll call the cops, who will return you to them, or if they want to be asses, throw you in juvie. So you maliciously comply while expressing your utter disdain for them until you attain the age of majority, then you abandon them and move on with your life. At that point you become a wage slave, have to live somewhere, and much like Dark Helmet, realize you’re surrounded by assholes.
  
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- lmmarsano@group.lt ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Exactly: society is full of dickheads, then people fuss when they’re treated as who they are like they’re entitled to more.
  
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Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t think you fully appreciate what it’s like to grow up with boomers for parents. Your generation can basically ignore them, without any direct interaction. All you lose, is a birthday card. We grew up with them in our face, every single day. You can’t argue with these people. All you can do, is stare at them like they’re fucking idiots…because they are. Confronting them, is next to impossible, unless you are prepared to go to war over the stupidest shit imaginable.

This isn’t our "social deficiency. It’s theirs. We grew up with no way of communicating with a generation of Karens, other than deliberate non-engagement.

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- stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s exactly my experience growing up as a millennial. I think what you (and hater articles) are describing as a gen z thing is normal human behavior when caught in a situation with emotionally unhealthy people, especially if it’s an abusive power imbalance.
  
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- Bongles@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Boomers aren’t really the parents of Gen Z if that’s what you’re saying, except on the extremes (the youngest boomers with the oldest Gen Z and they had kids past around 40 years old). That’s mostly Gen X and older millennials who had kids young. I, as a younger millennial, have boomer parents and even they almost aren’t.
  
  ~(I typed this and had one of those “god, I don’t care anymore” moments, but it’s typed already so here you go)~
  
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  - Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Gen X forgotten again 😭
    
    Stares into the abyss…
    
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Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If it’s not social engagement, then why are you experiencing a particular social signal from it?

A boycott or a strike is political engagement. Deliberately ignoring you is social engament. A blank stare sends a stronger signal than small talk: It means actually engaging with your ideas and judging you for them. Where small talk seeks to neutralize tensions with noncommittal affirmations, a blank stare communicates a boundary clearly and efficiently.

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