Thoughts on why Gen Z is not drinking alcohol?

[Doktor Grimm]

i guess there will be less DUI cases but overall i think they are more fucked

You'd think so, but the number of shroom driving stories I've heard from zoomers says otherwise.

 

[eDove]

Has it been addressed that a lot of psychiatric medications can't be mixed with alcohol too? That could play a small part. Some of those psych meds, even the "mild" ones, can make alcohol seem pointless since they're just as numbing and mood-altering as getting drunk.

 

[Lords Greatsword]

I've seen plenty of zoomers that still drink. Don't know how many of them are in bars, though, since I've rarely ever gone to any myself.
But I have also observed the sentiment of doing weed or some other drugs with abandon yet being critical of alcohol, so perhaps there is a budding trend of drinking getting phased out with other vices, carrying their own effects. I'm not sure to what extent that sentiment has grown, however.

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

But I have also observed the sentiment of doing weed or some other drugs with abandon yet being critical of alcohol, so perhaps there is a budding trend of drinking getting phased out with other vices, carrying their own effects. I'm not sure to what extent that sentiment has grown, however.

I have mainly noticed the abuse of Adderall, Ritalin and other comparable drugs in the workplace. There's a weird strain of young workers who avoid alcohol and caffeine, but abuse medication in an attempt to improve their performance.

 

[greatUncleShitHeel]

The following is from some fag on /tv/, so all the usual disclaimers apply. However, it seems plausible to me so maybe this guy is on to something. For context, the OP was asking if people in the '50s really drank like the characters in Mad Men do.

The idea of a self-enforced inverted 6 O'Clock swill type deal is so strange to me.

Even with driving it is not really as well known as most people who smoke weed while driving and kill somebody are also consuming alcohol.

Is it? Can you actually prove this claim?

 

[GeekUSA]

Most of the zoomers I know who drink or smoke are mainly social drinkers or smokers. They do drink, but maybe once every few weeks on a weekend party with friends or maybe a glass of wine with a fancy meal. I don't understand how or why this is a bad thing, other than zoomers are seemingly more and more socially isolated than older generations. I see a lot of the anger coming from this as a bunch of millennials and gen x getting too old to enjoy the lifestyle they had and wondering why the kids aren't raging at the club like they did.

 

[Mukhrani]

You seem to be conflating the idea that you can only be having fun while drunk. To make a claim about your personality (as you did mine), you seem to be the person that drinks to forget their real life problems, and can only have fun when out with friends when drunk. You don't need to drink to forget your problems (just having fun with friends can make you forget) and you don't have to drink every time you want to have fun.

Maybe I misinterpreted, but I've had plenty of good conversations with people who were a bit tipsy or even a bit drunk. I've had plenty of fun at parties with heavy drinking even when I wasn't drinking at all because I had to drive or whatever. I've also watch a lot of young people become wallflowers, and miss out on critical networking opportunities because they feel like they need to be serious 24/7. This often causes a huge disconnect between them and the old guard who could help them advance their careers and offer mentorship after bonding over stupid, silly shit, and the tragedy is that they think it makes them admirable and superior to everyone else who's having fun. Drinking for most people isn't about forgetting your problems, its about dampening inhibitions and self-consciousness among a critical mass of people which allows for a different form of camaraderie, even for a lot of the sober people.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

As someone who is early Gen Z I don’t because Beer just doesn’t taste that good and I haven’t tried any liquor because it’s expensive as shit, also I have had close family struggle with alcoholism before and that’s also a turn off, though I don’t judge people who like to drink in moderation I think that’s just fine

 

[Farsided]

I see a lot of the anger coming from this as a bunch of millennials and gen x getting too old to enjoy the lifestyle they had and wondering why the kids aren't raging at the club like they did.

Millenials & Gen X being confused at Zoomers not doing as much activities as we did way back when is also down to the fact that there aren't much you're still allowed to do frankly, the cost of doing anything is also greater.

I've never cared for the club scene but even then, you'd walk into a club and you'd see people dancing, having a good time, now it's people with their phones. Same with concerts, bunch of people recording the performance.
My cousin complained recently that his son didn't do all the shit he used to do " What a shame, he's missing so much fun "
It's rural areas so you could do whatever you wanted when we were young, fishing in nearby rivers ? Used to be ok, now you're going to have an old fart call the cops because you need a loicense.
An impromptu afternoon party in the woods that turned into a cozy evenings with your bros with a small camp fire ? Yeah, try that now. Woop Woop, here comes da police !!

 

[666NASTYFUCKINGFREAK666]

Millenials & Gen X being confused at Zoomers not doing as much activities as we did way back when is also down to the fact that there aren't much you're still allowed to do frankly, the cost of doing anything is also greater.

I've never cared for the club scene but even then, you'd walk into a club and you'd see people dancing, having a good time, now it's people with their phones. Same with concerts, bunch of people recording the performance.
My cousin complained recently that his son didn't do all the shit he used to do " What a shame, he's missing so much fun "
It's rural areas so you could do whatever you wanted when we were young, fishing in nearby rivers ? Used to be ok, now you're going to have an old fart call the cops because you need a loicense.
An impromptu afternoon party in the woods that turned into a cozy evenings with your bros with a small camp fire ? Yeah, try that now. Woop Woop, here comes da police !!

I remember walking with my cousin along a river behind my house and some retarded bitch came out crying about how it was private property and we couldn't walk there.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Baptist hands wrote this post. Alcohol was the only way to get clean water for millennia. Note, I do not drink but I'm not going to pretend like it's the worst socially acceptable thing in all of human history

<0.5% ABV alcohol
“Small beer”
Nice try Satan

Zoomers are the only people I know who have legit bragged to me, in person, about consuming alcohol by pouring it into their assholes.

That has more to do with zoomers playing with their buttholes, though.

 

[Safari]

Liquor tastes bad and my parents weren't strict so I never had a chip on my shoulder. I don't see the point of it.

 

[Nitro!]

Pages and pages of cope. Muh health. Muh bad taste. Muh expensive. Muh bars. Jesus. Zoom-zooms are so afraid of losing their youth it's like you're already dead. Get some bottom-shelf vodka and mix it with bottom-shelf soda and find a basement to party with friends that are in the same zip code as you (oh wait).

 

[MoffAlbert]

1. It's too expensive if you don't like the taste of beer.
2. Bar culture is dead because of stigmatization.
3. Everything zoomies do is constantly monitored and content farmed. Think of how many views someone doing something mildly embarrassing thanks to being just a little too drunk in public could make.
4. Drinking is for depressed old men like me. That's not based.
5. They're all addicted to something else. Be it porn, weed, or making as much money as they can with get rich quick schemes or working three jobs.

 

[Maniacal Foreigner]

It tastes like shit and it makes you sick. We have better drugs now, boomer.

 

[Crinoids]

Too many of our grandmas have broken hearts from watching people make dumb decisions. Too many dead party cousins. Their facebook accounts are like a permanent memento mori.

When I die, I want to be very old and leave something nice behind.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

It's not like they magically changed the THC molecule. Just smoke less or pick a Sativa heavy strain.

While true, that's not the problem. If it was only THC, you'd be fine (as far as putting a foreign chemical into your lungs goes). Those vape carts they sell at dispensaries often very literally contain brain poisons, as he said. That's especially true in the State of California, where they actually did mass spectrometry testing on the resin in the THC carts. Look them up if you like, but they're certainly not pretty.

If there was a law mandating that a sample from each batch be sent to a mass spectrometer, that market would at least be able to claim trustworthiness.

 

[Attempt Turd]

While true, that's not the problem. If it was only THC, you'd be fine (as far as putting a foreign chemical into your lungs goes). Those vape carts they sell at dispensaries often very literally contain brain poisons, as he said. That's especially true in the State of California, where they actually did mass spectrometry testing on the resin in the THC carts. Look them up if you like, but they're certainly not pretty.

If there was a law mandating that a sample from each batch be sent to a mass spectrometer, that market would at least be able to claim trustworthiness.

There were like 50 deaths in one yearfrom black market drug cartridges using a carrier oil that destroys the lungs. Felt like the tobacco industry was boosting that to make vaping in general look worse

My post was referring to modern strain buds

 

[MrJokerRager]

That's just not true. Many great men drank. Nixon drank, McCarthy drank, JFK drank, LBJ drank, Dollfuss drank, Franco drank. Name one good teetotaler.

Trump?

 

[555777555]

Trump?

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