Ya, I don’t think they’re lazy or stupid but I’m clearly seeing enormous swaths of people being herded by social media and it’s quite fascinating to see. Prior to this generation, the ability to influence wasn’t nearly as easy to do and attention spans weren’t quite as easy to capture. Now we’re all captured by the device we’re holding and influenced by one thing or another.
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jj4211@lemmy.world 11 months agoOne thing that seems to be true for so long as we have been writing stuff: people 35 and older have always always complained about how hopelessly stupid/lazy/off the people under 25 are and how society is doomed when those folks take over. I take comfort that we seem to have consistently gotten this wrong for hundreds of years.
S_204@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Clarke311@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.".
Socrates. ~400BC
OhFudgeBars@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And yet the quote is still somehow not even remotely old.