Kids these days are having less sex, doing less drugs, and generally being less “kids these days” than any generation before. Curious to hear older people’s theories and opinions on thishttps://twitter.com/jmrphy/status/1142101873127763969 …
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Replying to @visakanv
I'm only 34, so it's just one generation below me, but I have a theory. People engage in sex/drugs/rock'n'roll when they feel safe. when they have a bedrock trust that their other needs will be met without too much struggle. the kids these days feel profoundly unsafe.
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Replying to @danlistensto @visakanv
I think the opposite of this. They feel more safe than ever before and that’s why they’re boring. Freaking out about the decline of the world is what their parents and Millennials are doing, So optimism, community, and productivity are the new rebellion against convention.
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Replying to @RealtimeAI @visakanv
this does not align with measured rates of depression and anxiety in the zoomers (ridiculously elevated compared to previous generations)
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Replying to @danlistensto @RealtimeAI
Kids I’m talking to are definitely more stressed than kids I grew up with. Media landscape alone explains it sufficiently imo. Kids have group chats now, for one tiny eg. Having pictures and texts screenshotted and shared by your peer group and beyond is wild at young age
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Replying to @visakanv @RealtimeAI
yeah, it's adding hyperdrive to the already pretty harsh/shitty process of tweenage backbiting and social rank enforcement
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sidenote: I'm almost 100% sure that the severity of this type of behavior is greatly amplified by age segregation in schools causing more natural hierarchies (older, more experienced students are naturally higher social rank) to break down with no good replacement
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12 year olds shouldn't be trying to stack rank each other based on the opinions of other 12 year olds. they should have real peer role models to learn from and put that monkey-mind social cognition into in a healthy way.
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Interesting how organized sports somewhat avoid this by having wider age clustering. Having a freshman practicing football near a senior gives him a clear model in how to improve, but no freshman is ever doing classwork alongside a senior
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here we see illustrated the unfailing principle that the more thoroughly a context is structured by expertise, the more fucked it is
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Replying to @chaosprime @usufructionist and
There’s a funny math formula to be articulated here
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Replying to @visakanv @usufructionist and
Robert Anton Wilson: imposition of order -> escalation of disorder me: imposition of expertise -> escalation of incompetence
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