IRONY POLITICS & GEN Z Joshua Citarella
My generation is well-practiced in the art of ironic detachment, but too much coolness can end up as incuriosity: a premature assumption that there’s nothing to learn.
many of the ideals coveted by the modern world may well be social constructs and worth rebelling against. We may even find some sympathy with Gen-Zs in this sense; the society that they inhabit has long sealed off the realm of forms, leaving only the artificial ideals of the world in its place.
the critic • The death of Ideals
Unlike Gen X’ers in the 1990s and Millennials in the early 2000s, Gen Z thinks the world needs to be changed. Although their more external locus of control would seemingly promote apathy, many Gen Z’ers are angry enough to take action even if they sometimes doubt it will do any good.