I think that describes younger millennials more. Zs are too young to directly have processed stressors, but would have indirectly resonated with anxiety in X’er parents and Millennial siblings/uncles/aunts. The oldest Z’s were like 7 when recession hit, and 15 when Trump rose
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Alsoim not sure they’re fragile. I suspect they’re actually gonna end up pretty strong, just with strong domestic cozy priorities. Homebodies in meatspace, cybernauts digitallh
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What are you basing that on to contra the stats on higher incidents of anxiety and depression?
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They’re young. Adolescent life stage effects are far stronger than generational effects rn. I expect it will in fact have hormesis effect and vaccinate them to adult stressors. Basically they’re getting their mental health priorities early.
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The stats, IIIRC, control for age. I hope you are correct, but the reactions seem to be coddling, not enduring. Eg trigger warnings and safe spaces. Both have an ideal version I like but are often overused to prevent the very hormetic experience necessary for growth.
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I think the actual prevalence of the extreme versions of that is vastly overblown by the right. I haven't actually encountered it in person.
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🤷🏻♂️ Jon Haidt is not the right. I’m not talking about someone like Tucker or Alex Jones calling Fen Z snowflakes.
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He’s more IDW sure, but I mean trigger warnings and safe spaces as concerns vastly overblown by the right. Also more millennial than Z since Zs just hitting college
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Yeah no, the stats are not on the side there. Most of the trigger/safe-space etc stuff started ticking up as millennials left college and Gen Z entered.
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And ofc these are marginal trends. I’m not bucketing an entire generation this way.
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Reason I’m wary of coddling being the distinguishing feature of Z’s is that they said the same thing about Millennials too... though that was a more optimistic kind (participation trophy etc) and in general... all kids are going to seem coddled to contemporary adults
Wouldn’t you, ideally, define it by when the data starts changing? Again, marginally, but the changes start a couple years earlier.
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