Also, didn’t the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye complain a lot about others being fake and so on?
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artifex@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Per one “expert” quoted in the article: “Gen Z employees come from a generation that is starkly genuine”. That should tell you all you need to now about the quality of this article.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
artifex@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Forget 20th century media, there are Sumerian cuneiform tablets with parents complaining about their kids’ work ethics.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yup, this. However, reading/watching something from the past 100 years does tend to bring it home in a more visceral way. People having a hard time connecting with the experiences of people that are still living (boomers, Silent generation) are going to really struggle connecting to ancient Sumerians.
Adam Conover has the perfect talk on the notion of “generations”…I honestly wish he’d expand on this talk and put together instances in a slide deck where he goes from Gen Z (or alpha) and these kinds of narratives all the way back to colonial times or whatever he has the energy for.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’d like to point that “expert” to watch something like The Graduate or read something like “Generation X” - or other novels from Coupland - where his characters agonize over things like McJobs. Ironically, I think Coupland is probably describing what is often called “The Jones Generation”.
The Graduate was before I was born, and Coupland’s work was not something I read until a few years out of college, but both managed to resonate with me.