Posted on 11/22/2023 8:31:02 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Students at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria gathered inside a lecture hall recently to hear me talk about race relations in America. But after making a few remarks about polarization and efforts to “roll back the clock” on civil rights, I cut short my verbal doom-scroll and wandered into the audience.
The students were roughly 18 to 23. Gen Z, the zoomers. With their mastery of laptops and smartphones, this generation is said to put a premium on “proactive learning,” preferring interactive educational experiences “versus passively sitting and listening to a professor lecture for hours,” as the Annie E. Casey Foundation put it in a 2023 report on Gen Z.
The young people were also consuming phenomenal amounts of information, so much so fast that many of them were suffering from loneliness, depression and anxiety attacks.
I decided to turn my talk into an interactive exchange, letting Gen Z have its say. They could even pick on a favorite villain, the “greedy boomer,” as some Gen Zers and millennials refer to my generation, for making a mess of the world they stand to inherit.
To my surprise, this group was not looking to cast blame so much as find solutions. They were contemplative and even optimistic, despite real fears and frustrations.
A terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s terrorizing retribution on Gaza were in the news — and very much on the Gen Z minds. Could the conflict be discussed without triggering more acrimony, as the subject had on so many other campuses?
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They were contemplative and even optimistic, despite real fears and frustrations. Despite these amazing accomplishments, when asked, they could not name the person Washington DC was named after, nor name who painted Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Elvis Presley, Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharpe, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Gordon Lightfoot, Jimmy Buffett, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Guess Who, Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Steppenwolf, Jimi Hendrix, CCR, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers
There are almost zero boomers in that list, Jimmy Buffet and the Blues Brothers, Steppenwolf had one, The Guess Who, Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears, had one or two, that is about it.
Gen Z. The neo khmer rouge. Year Zero. Kill as many as you can to achieve it.
Thank you!
So, that would make them members of “The Greatest (WWII) Generation. That’s fine too. So the Zero Gs are right. We baby boomers, of which I am one, really do suck.
It would make them members of the Audie Murphy, Jane Fonda, Joe Biden, and The Beatles/Rolling Stones/Jimi Hendrix 1960s generation.
They are called the “Silent Generation”.
There isn’t a WWII generation or a “Greatest Generation”.
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