Why the "Middle Class Dream" Is Dead: What Gen Z Must Face Now
Teenagers should know that it’s ok to feel depressed and heartbroken. It’s okay to feel like everything is out of control and that you should talk about all these feelings to an adult.
We can’t all be content creators some of us are gonna have to be plumbers.
Well as a gen z, you (we) are contributing as much (or more) to pollution and waste production than previous generations because of our partaking in the constant cycling of clothing trends and constant use and consuption of new products and technology. With really dirt cheap online shopping probably being more accessible, prevalent and normalized in our generation than any one before, we really won’t realize the damage done before it’s too late. They’re definetely gonna blame us for being the straw that broke the camels back when it comes to the environment in 30-50 years and i shudder to think about it.
It’s okay to give yourself a break from fighting injustices. I see a lot of gen Z posting about different problems in the world to bring awarenesses to those issues but if you’re engulfed in every problem out there, you aren’t giving yourself a chance to actually be happy. So it’s okay to not know about every issue all the time. Give yourself a break sometimes and just try and have fun.
Looking through these comments as a Gen Z, you people didn’t say anything I haven’t heard, so I’ll help you out.
Hey, Gen Z, you know all those s****y trends and horrible “pranks” and the cancel culture you follow along with? Yeah, that’s gonna stick around FOREVER. Unlike our predecessors, our mistakes can’t just be left in the past because they’re on the internet.
I know it’s sounds Boomer like, but you’re way more addicted to the internet than you would admit.
I’m also Gen Z btw.
It’s not uncool or irresponsible to be hopeful, joyful, gracious, or to happy with yourself. Take a break from the news and the internet, it’s making you too anxious to really *live*. It’s cliché, but I mean it! Turn to your community and make change and relationships where you can see them in real life. Let yourself be inspired and don’t listen to older grumps who want to yuck your yum just because the world keeps turning.
Trying to establish exactly what kind of victim you are is ultimately not going to get you anywhere.
The seemingly pervasive belief that you are either a victim or an oppressor… so, it’s better to be a victim… is false.
We are all victims AND oppressors on some level. It’s more important to improve yourself, be a more compassionate person, and focus on the future, than to obsess about how you have been wronged or mistreated.
Move forward. Thinking of yourself as a victim will only hold you back.
Staying inside staring at screens for your entire childhood has made many of you socially inept.
you are trying to learn lessons at 18 that you should have been learning at 12.
Just like harry potter/disney/anime/lolcomic bacon culture millennials, you, too, will one day be an embarrassment in the eyes of teens and anyone else who isn’t chronically online. quit seeking the most moral and respectable of interests – just be cringe! be a decent person, but enjoy tiktok, or youtube gamers or cringey music or anime, or whatever. nothing matters! enjoy your hobbies and shed guilt from your guilty pleasures
You’re in an echo chamber online.
Not everyone agrees with you.
Some of us just don’t want to write our opinions on twitter for fear of abuse because you can’t get across nuance and complex topics with a character limit.
Extremists are who got us to where we are today. Those super dramatic peers of yours are not the leaders. The calm cool and collected that look out for everyone are the people you push to the front to represent you.
The internet is a terrible place to get your world view from . Seriously .
I’ve noticed this especially with teens in the west and how they react to news (most recently American teens) and it’s usually internet hysterics that whip them into an almost delusional frenzy. It’s terrible for your mental health , and its seriously lacking in perspective .
This is not Gen Z specific , but generally for young people time immemorial – when you’re young it’s easy to see everything in absolutes , black and white , if it’s not y its z and that’s that. It’s easy to hold super high morality standards and the internet makes it very easy to get a justice b***r with minimal effort . Trying to get nuance is important .
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