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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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  - RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Your’e a real asshole looking for an argument
    
    You skipped right past
    
    As each new generation inherits the world, vital knowledge is forgotten. In the latest in our Wise Words series, Richard Fisher explores the language that has emerged to describe that phenomenon.
    
    And went straight for the fight.
    
    You turned an appeal for people to pass knowledge on to those who may not get as much exposure to it as past generations and what…? Fuck you, don’t teach? Everyone knows everything already - apparently you do?
    
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