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- Jan 8, 2025
The social development of Gen Alpha fascinates me. It is still way too early to tell for most of them, but I am convinced maybe 60% of them will grow up to be useless reddit consoomers who use AI for all their thinking, and the other 40% will basically be Luddite Nazis in both good and bad ways.I don’t even think all of them are bad people nessecarily, they grew up in relatively stable times in comparison to now, I mean you see a lot of Boomers get upset about what Millenials and Gen Z choose to wear for clothing (some of it is fair but some of it is not) a lot of them literally can’t cope with the decline the elites in their generation are responsible for, I honestly think they’re molded by bad societal trends, I mean in a strange way there’s a lot of repeated culture around every 4 generations for example Gen Alpha gets shit for being iPad addicts but I do see positive traits with some of them in spite of that, a lot of them see the current political culture (17-19 year olds) and are honestly quite aware of how bad things have gotten and don’t see a path forward, they have even less faith in electoralism than Gen Z does and that’s saying something, Gen Alpha will have a weird advantage in having the conservatism that Boomers have but also having had their youth in a time of bad economic conditions, which probably is optimistic for the long term but not the short term
On topic for the thread, I think most of Gen Z sees/understands the Boomer retardation, and those of us that do have kids will strive to be the opposite of Boomers in many ways. I know this isn't the Gen Z thread, and I'm biased being Gen Z myself, but one positive trend I've seen is that a lot of Gen Z are actively observing generational cycles and are intentionally avoiding their parent's/grandparents mistakes. The mass awareness of "boomers" and how they behave is a telling sign.