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Re: Why Adults Care What Young People Think

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Post by codeflow2202 » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 6:26 AM UTC

Younger persons don't have the knowledge and wisdom to assess what previous generations did. Their own thoughts sounds more like pre-conceived, propaganda driven, ready made sentences. (I know because I have been there and only know realize how dumb and manipulable I was, and probably still are. At least now I can see it).

As time passes the environment, morals and the goals of a population can change drastically, and its behavior is attuned by those variables.

Anyone born in the boomer generation would probably have behaved exactly like them, for the good and the bad.

The professors in that article might be speaking like that, making amend to the young, but deep inside every generation thinks to be smarter than the previous and the successive ones.

Re: Why Adults Care What Young People Think

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Post by faeriechangling » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 9:18 AM UTC

jason2323 wrote: post #10

I’m in my mid 20s so I likely fall into the category of “pretty but lacks wisdom”. But from my experience speaking to folks over the age of 60, especially when it comes to discussing wisdom, has left much to be desired. I used to think and have deep respect for older folks (I come from an Asian family) simply because of their age, but over time I’ve noticed that they seem to lack intelligence and seem to have learned…

From my research crystallized memory starts degrading past 40 and fluid intelligence in your early 20s. So if you’re looking for say a complex analysis of a cutting edge technology, some senior citizen may not be the best choice. I don’t think there’s a thing wrong with this, seniors don’t play on pro ball teams either.

I would still think of any knowledge which resides within a 60 year olds brain with the same interest I would view 60 year old code. There’s got to have been something going right for it to have been working for 60 years. Sometimes it’s going to be barely working, sometimes it will be working great, but there’s something to be learned.

I also don’t think wisdom is just what people say but also what they do.

Re: Why Adults Care What Young People Think

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Post by anthlax » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

codeflow2202 wrote: post #11

Younger persons don't have the knowledge and wisdom to assess what previous generations did. Their own thoughts sounds more like pre-conceived, propaganda driven, ready made sentences. (I know because I have been there and only know realize how dumb and manipulable I was, and probably still are. At least now I can see it). As time passes the environment, morals and the goals of a population can change drastically, an…

Could you give an example of a modern idea that young people echo that is “propaganda driven and ready made sentences?”

Re: Why Adults Care What Young People Think

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Post by StrictDabbler » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

411111111111111 wrote: post #3

jleyank wrote: post #2

Well, I’m old and not a parent so I assume I’m pretty much invisible to most young folk. Unless they are asking me a question or engaged in a specific conversation I guess. No big deal, as my concerns aren’t their concerns, and how I socialized is more social (or at least in person) than how they do. But don’t seek the boomers short as do nothings. Four dead in ohio and all that, and the various riots of 68 were the…

Gen X created pretty much all these social networks though. Zoomers (the young people this author is likely talking about) pretty much grew up while these networks already took off. Though the generation the social networks target will likely switch to gen alpha soon, as they're quickly approaching their puperty.

The same thing happened with the Boomers. They thought they were very special and different because television and movies were spending so much time and attention on them.

In reality, tv and movies were machines made by the Greatest and Silent generations to sell products to children.

So boomers grew up to be hyper-consumers who are highly vulnerable to believing whatever the magic box in the living room tells them.

Now Gen X sells products based on the opinion of the crowd and the new fashion is constantly trying to match beliefs with the shifting consensus of a para-social cloud of "friends".

I'm reminded of Vonnegut's bit about the Booboolings, a species who thought it was a good idea to program their children socially...

https://realflashbytes.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/the-sisters-...