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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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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*2000 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
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