THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
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- _niko7
Not just Gen X.
Remember what made many of us feel special as kids? our ability to draw or make art? How impressed our schoolmates were? How no matter how much of a fuck-up we were at math or how much we horsed around, the teacher would give us a pass and actually respected us because we were creative?
Yeah, for the next generation, that's probably all gone now.
- Millennials, Gen-Z, Alpha live life under a constant 4K microscope socially...prophetone
- everything is (potentially) recorded, scrutinized, media over-stimulation is off charts, de-sensitization at all time highprophetone
- I agree – i feel like the instant access to everything means that nothing is special any more, and there's not as much boredom that leads to magicDaveO
- little is cool anymore, it's all snapped to rails or an industry/platform formula. where are the wild rock bands, crazy movies, explosive creative pop culture.prophetone
- there are amazing rare examples of this of course... but pre-2000s it was like an explosion of creative musi, visuals and the artsprophetone
- the motivations have shifted away from striving for the creative magic as THE GOAL - now it's just focus on maxing 'likes, subs, mentions, shares'prophetone
- and most importantly imo - the 'zombification' of the, especially, younger generationsprophetone
- like now, even if a young person sees something inspiring! special! freshly-creative! they 'pause for a sec say MEH and keep doom scrollingprophetone
- All of this just in time for fast food approach of A.I. - which imo will create millions of more kids saying MEH out there even if actual great creativeprophetone
- Ok enough of this, time for my vitamins and Metamucilprophetone
- nah keep going. I think you are right.cherub
- You felt special?palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…renderedred
- lol yeah not special more like bad-ass...I felt special when I tried to do math ;)_niko
- Agreed _niko. In fact, being that way now is likely to result in a diagnosis and a badge for life.Horp