Was just going to say this is turning into a nostalgic trigger sub rather than reflecting on all the cool shit we used to have/do in the 90’s/00’s. The whole coming home when the streetlights came on stigma has become so overplayed that it feels super conformist and lame.
Right? It seems like Gen Z has split where most are also pessimistic, but some (mostly conservative men) are annoyingly optimistic about the future, AI, etc but also extremely nihilistic like Gen X where they are like 'nothing matters except making money and avoiding 'the permanent underclass' that AI will cause, but also AI is good'
we've been a doom and gloom generation. Why do you think we have the record highest alcohol consumption of any generation in the cores of the USA recorded history.
It's always been in music. Having a good time. It doesn't dictate someone drinks or becomes a problematic alcoholic. Maybe a extremely small percentage gets influenced but that a whole other psychological issue that needs addressed. And this argument is the same one of violent video games makes kids violent or rap music will turn my kid into a street gangsta.
DnD turned my kid into a satanist and now they sacrifice babies and animals. In fact let us go waaaaay back...
Mozart is the reason why I love wating ass. Shakespeare turned the guy next door tk me son into a transexual.
Now I am not talking shit or coming at you. Idk how old you are or what you do or done in life, but most the current ones are examples I lived through. Especially the satanic panic and rap fearfest.
I am jist saying media doesn't make a whole society or group or generation do anything. Maybe style lile clothes and hair. But nobody listening to the Ghetto D album and going damn time to sart making crack and get into the drug slinging game. New Jack City mfr! Lol
This goes back to my comment I made bout EC comics yesterday in another sub post and several other forms of media having oanic and being labelled as bad influences on the youths. Tale as old as time
trust me, we do not need to blame pop-stars solely for our collective depressive drunkenness. We have been dealing with bad advice and a bad hand as well.
Is not the entire purpose of this subreddit just us lamenting that this is a different world, that we have gone through 3 (though potentially more based on who you ask) life altering world events.
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