Gen Z: The Divided Generation
This is the challenge for all six generations in the decades to come: to find a way for technology to bring us together instead of driving us apart.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
we exist in a new context now, after a long decade of global homogenization and the Uberification of life. A global pandemic causes simulation to crash or at least to reveal itself, forcing us to search for new identities, new communities, and new ideals
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The Post-Individual
ideaspace.ystrickler.comAs TikTok video essayist Rayne Fisher-Quann wrote in her Substack essay on “micro-individuality”, “everyone seems to be more obsessed with individuality and differentiation than ever before, while simultaneously participating in one of the most intoxicating lifestyle reproduction mechanisms in human history.”
Blueberry milk nails aren’t real – none of it is
Gen Z’s gender fluidity takes previous decades’ “different is good” and “be who you are” attitudes around race and LGB identification and applies them to gender identity.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
it’s a directionally correct generalization, and it’s showing itself in where and how people interact online. Many young people prefer the facelessness of Discord, Reddit, a crypto pfp. With the rise of privacy online—both anonymity and pseudonymity—we’ll see more people express themselves through new personas that obscure their “real” identity.
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