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RE: Generation Gap - Dtris - 08-03-2021
(08-03-2021, 08:33 AM)pat19989 Wrote: Coming from a 20-something, social media is wreaking havoc on the collective consciousness of everyone my age. I am off social media for the most part and that has helped. But anxiety and depression run so rampant with so many people my age and below. It has become very normalized and a common subject of self-depreciating jokes. I know that these conditions are real and affect some people that live healthy lifestyles. But I can't help but feel like a huge part of the widespread depression and anxiety is a result of overstimulation and extreme self-consciousness brought about by social media as well as the uphill climb in society to avoid high fructose corn syrup and other highly processed, also normalized, meals.
A lot of our parents don't know any better than to feed us that crap, and once you grow up on it, it is hard to change. I am seeing a lot of people my age as they get in to their 20s begin caring deeply about their health though. There has definitely been a sort of mass public health wake up that all of the food from chains and processing is not good for us. I think social media played a part in that 'wake up' as well. A lot of us are overstimulated and overinformed haha
You are right. This is the biggest difference between older generations and todays gen z and younger. I am an older millennial and grew up without computers, making sun tea, sitting on the porch, riding bikes, wrestling in the grass, playing street sports, and generally living a simpler life. I was a teenager when when we got the internet and remember AoL and Yahoo chat rooms and early forums. Growing up with the tech changes gives millennials a unique perspective that gen x and older and the younger crowd do not have. Having experienced the wild west of the internet also is something that can not be recaptured.
Teenagers and kids in general have the same problems they have always had. Teenagers always think their parents don't understand, no one does, and that they are unique in their issues and no one has ever gone thru the same. But people are people and everything happens in cycles. As someone who has spent the better part of my adult life teaching children I can see there are differences, but there are a lot of similarities. The problems tend to be the same, the way things are handled and are dealt with is different.
What has exacerbated all the normal teenage problems is the constant connection to social media. When I was a teenager and did something embarrassing only me and whoever was there saw it, and maybe a few others heard about it. Now there could be video seen by millions. A picture can be shared with the whole school. You getting rejected by text by that hottie can be spread all over the school and beyond. The social stakes are higher because the spread of information is quicker and vaster.
The way younger people communicate has changed as well. Many are awkward at in person communication and very comfortable online. Their connection to tech in amazing but their gross motor skills and coordination has suffered as well. Their mental and physical fortitude is not as developed. Due to the brevity of memes and short communication style the attention span is shortened and many have difficulty focusing.
At the same time each generation sees the problems with the previous. Millennials and Gen Z see the harm of pharmaceuticals and processed food. They may be lucky enough to see the harm that has been done by the stretching of family bonds and strive to bring those closer again as well.
There is plenty of unique challenges to the younger generations, but the nature of the challenges will forever be human relationships and relationships with ourselves and the environment. Whatever the future will bring it will certainly be interesting and I have faith that the younger generations will strive for freedom, peace, and love, more so than any generation before.
RE: Generation Gap - KaliSouth - 08-03-2021
The session that today's Q'uote is taken from has a lot of depth about the 3D illusion we are living in:
Quote:But we shall not start with that. We shall focus briefly on the state of the planet, for that is one thread of your questioning: is there a gain or a decrease in love upon planet Earth? Indeed, there are a number of ways to answer that question, but we shall choose two. Firstly, as the one known as R has said, the surface of life has a spurious and shallow reality that is nonetheless undeniable. It is a world of complete illusion, and in that world the dragon thrashes its tail. And angels in flesh quiver, defend, worry and hope to respond in ways that add love to the illusion. A little positive, a little negative, and the illusion wags on, doing the job it was meant to do, thoroughly confusing, baffling and frustrating. All efforts of the linear and conscious intellect to control it bring each inevitably, surely, if each is honest, to the realization that the self knows nothing. That the life of the surface has nothing. That all is “vanity and striving after wind,” as this instrument would quote from her Bible.
I like the idea that the surface of life is spurious and shallow, because it means that with a bit of work we can transcend the challenges in our current moment. The next moment will come with its own challenges. These problems are transient, hence the differences amongst the human generations of Earth.
RE: Generation Gap - Diana - 08-03-2021
I'm a bit like Dtris, straddling today's world and the pre-computer world. I agree with Dtris's assessment.
I may be somewhat unique in that I use tech for business and seldom for personal life (these forums being a notable exception). Even pre-computer I didn't watch TV. But when digital tech came along, I embraced it for business. I started out traditionally, interfacing in person with clients, delivering my jobs in person. With long-distance clients the work was done via Fedex—art, photos (slides). To be honest, I don't remember how I sent the writing portion of the books I did—it must have been early email.
But I would get galleys back through the mail.As digital tech became more widespread and varied, up to a point it was very useful and helpful. But at a certain point it became a situation of diminishing returns. Now, it's off-the-deep-end crazy. I find today's world of digital business and business tools absolutely insane. Not to mention so very few tools have anything close to a decent tutorial. The bottom line is that because of the way things are now—at least in my business—one is forced into being on a computer or device so much of the time it detracts from interaction with a natural world. It reminds me of "Office Space" where the main character finally gets out of the corporate world and takes a job so he can be outside, not sitting at a desk doing inane things.
These times are very complicated in my view, and in this, my empathy goes out to younger generations who grew up plugged into the matrix of digital living with little grounding in a natural world. At least I have lived in a world where people talked to each other in person and not on FB or in text. The richness of personal interaction is a far cry from electronically produced words on a screen. The internet has connected the world while paradoxically creating separation. There is something so much richer in personal interaction—looking into someone's eyes, experiencing the energies of a setting together, body language, hearing a voice (sound), and just being in each other's company. And now covid, or rather the reactions to covid, have further created separation—in a big way.
So my advice to young people is to not stay plugged in all the time. Don't rely on texting and FB. See each other; talk to each other in person. Experience this world and all of its nuances and richness naturally as much as possible. A photo or video of the Grand Canyon just isn't the same as experiencing its awesomeness in person. Hold hands and look at a tree, with the sweet melodies of birds enveloping you, watch the tiny insects that call the tree their home. Kiss on a beach with the breeze in your hair, the taste of salt on your lips, and your toes in the sand—not in a texted photo. Make love in the woods. Meet each other for coffee and laugh together in person without texting at the same time—give your friends your full attention.
Experience the natural world as much as you can. Who knows if you will come back here after this life. The beauty and richness of this world are worth knowing intimately.