If this world got any more uninteresting and unproductive , it’d be compulsory. Things are so bad now that even young people are getting attention. They’re getting attention from the most insular, ignorant, useless people who’ve always had everything.
That’s new. It’s ghaaaastly. It’s also overdue by about 40 years.
Generations X and Y were largely ignored. They had no image, no independent culture, and they weren’t scary like hippies and punks. They were no threat to anyone.
They turned into yet another mere middle-class slum-and-sleaze-worshipping demographic to be duly ignored a bit more. Something had to change, and it did. Due largely to the sheer ignorance and incompetence of previous generations, two generations finally arrived that have to be very different.
As you might expect, they’re starved of resources, income, social sanity, any attempt at useful culture, and role models, but they’re getting somewhere. They’re avoiding the whole unnecessary train wreck to the best of their ability. The current big achievement of the Millennials and Gen Z is that they’re so different they’re not understood at all .
They talk about things outsiders know nothing about. Mainstream media can’t pin them down to looks, hairstyles, and clothes. Fashion has no idea what they want.
Advertising and marketing are baffled. This is as it should be. Kids (generic expression) with any level of functional intelligence should realize they’re living in a pretty shoddy m.
