I’m not that old. A millennial. But we’ve reached the pit with Gen Z as far as customer service and just...the basic-ness of anything is concerned.
This pains me. This is everywhere.
Cultural literacy has been erased. Smart phones and social media did it. My 25 year old niece, 3.7 GPA university grad, admitted to me the other day that she didn’t know what I was talking about when I mentioned a mortar and pestle. She also wasn’t sure, two years ago, if Jackalopes were real. She also doesn’t own a dictionary and thinks it’s ‘weird’ that I have several, including a gigantic, unabridged edition from the early 1900’s. We are so, so screwed...