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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This isn’t a “kids these days” at all. No need for you to be offended.

  It was a request to pass on generalist knowledge from generations that had a lot more exposure to it.

  I left plenty of room in my statement with conditional language to allow those with knowledge like this to exist regardless of age, but you went and made it all about you.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You literally start off with

    While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

    I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. …

    Your comment is inherently ageist. Full stop. And by the way, there’s plenty of boomers who never knew how to fix shit.

    You didn’t have to, but you made it about entire swaths of generations.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And I’m not wrong in those two paragraphs.

      Again, you’re making this all about you. Jist because you might possess a little knowledge you make it a case to exclude anyone offering any to others, and patently this image shows there are some in meed.

      Well done.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The only really relevant thing in that article is

        “Generational trashing is actually eternal human behaviour,” wrote the novelist Douglas Coupland in an essay for The Guardian earlier this month. And he should know: he coined the term “Generation X”. Baby boomers, he recalls, once poured scorn on Gen-Xers like him, who themselves grew up to be sniffy about the [avocado-and-toast eating habits of “snowflake” Millennials. And now it’s the turn of Generation Z, with their TikToks and identity politics, to be judged by their elders.

        There’s actually a scientific term for this: the “kids these days” effect, which can be traced all the way back to the writing of the Ancient Greeks. “Since at least 624 BC, people have lamented the decline of the present generation of youth relative to earlier generations,” according to the psychologists who named the phenomenon. “The pervasiveness of complaints about ‘kids these days’ across millennia suggests that these criticisms are neither accurate nor due to the idiosyncrasies of a particular culture or time – but rather represent a pervasive illusion of humanity.”

        The rest of the article isn’t about people forgetting how to mend a fence and generally being incapable.

        Again. This fence thing didn’t have to be generational. You. Went. There.

        Think about that.

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