They're on the internet ‘almost all of the time.’ When you're talking to GenZ, they're thinking about what's going on on their phone.
Watching the funniest thing that happened on the planet is by definition funnier or more entertaining than the three of us having a burger. Jonathan Haidt | The All-In Interview (youtube.com)
Phone-based childhoods.
A beautiful moment that I am not a part of. I don't know I want something until I see someone else have it. A million likes on a photo.
People don't copy what they see. They copy what they want. We're in tune, therefore, to what the people around us are wanting. Rene Gerard.
They're not wrong in copying the pattern Kardashian went through after making a sex tape that went public. The riches and fame that followed. It makes sense.
Any kid that doesn't get a phone is left out, and it ‘hurts’ them. Everyone has a bad outcome. You get there because everyone else is doing it. Why are you on this all day? Well, I have to because I don't want to be left out. I don't wanna quit because I don't want to be alone.
9 or 10 year olds desperately want a phone and all the SM. 16 and 17 year olds wish it had never been invented. ‘It messed things up.’
‘If you don’t agree with me I'm going to hurt you, I'm going to destroy you socially' to win arguments. It was allowed, even at elite universities (which used to be prestigous). As long as the shout-downs were done in the name of Social Justice. And the schools and authorities were afraid of them too. So they weren't opposed. Now people can't explain why people can't call for the deaths of ‘the Jews’ at the pro-Palestine protests, because it's nothing different from what they've allowed for years.
‘Always trust your feelings, they’re always right. Life is a battle between perfectly good and perfectly evil. Our side has been cheated or hurt or defiled by theirs, and someone has to punish them. Avoid stressful experiences, speakers who say things you're going to hate.' Incredibly simplistic and exciting, you're a White Man, oh that means you're an oppressor, and I can feel virtuous to the extent I'm not that. People seek for ways they can claim an identity at least in part as a victim. Whiteness is the main enemy, THE thing. ‘Anti-racism’. Firing all the white guides in museums in 2021. Chemistry has to be about anti-racism.
The Left (until the 60s and 70s) was the party who stuck up for the have-nots. It changed to be about ‘power.’ Some people have power and they use that to oppress the opposite. The Left is losing black men, asians, hispanics, in the time of Donald Trump, too. The Left's policies are so offensive to so many people.
Businesses are moving away from all this segregation and wokeness are changing first. Campuses might be swinging now, after Dec 5 hearing, embarassing for universities.
In colleges, there really is no Right. The Left have been the only villain.
Cruel chaos and no one has success versus authoritative normative repressiveness and inequality, extents of liberalism and conservatism. The Right is always a reaction to the recent Left. The Left is a mixture of different kinds of people. The Progressive Activists were never liberal, they're not even very concerned about bringing up the bottom but rather bringing down the top. Restaining rich people and constraining privelege. Not in the Democratic Party, where usually the moderate part wins, despite outspoken progressive wing. Traditional Conservatives have been removed from the Trump Republicans.
People are having problems integrating Gen Zers into their companies. ? Resiliency, communication skills, too fragile for criticism, so much anxiety. But they're not in denial. They can show incredible growth. They have to understand antifragility. 'I'll give you two options. Because I care about you being successful in this job, I'm going to tell you everything I think you're doing wrong and I am going to try to make you better. Option two I can really try to be sensitive about your feelings and really try to make everything gentle and try never to upset you. Which one do you want?' But what employers are doing is hire 3 people on project basis and fire one, let one quit, and one is left. Hiring is going to not just look for high GPA and good school. They're going to look for signs of being a free-range kid, that you travelled alone for 3 months. There's no random here, there's no side hustle, there's no Your Politics, that's your weekend.
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