For everyone who has been mocked with "ok boomer". Sad but true and most of us know it already.
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I think the "smart" phones are almost completely to blame. They expose you to extreme levels of carcinogenic EMFs and blue light. Attention span is decreased with doom scrolling while AI thinks for you. You perpetually deep fry your brain as your face is planted into your device day and night.
Dumb teachers also don't help.
That would be next on my list. Indoctrination into believing BS is one of the worlds greatest evils.
I agree that smartphones are to blame for the mental laxity, but not for the physiological reasons you suppose.
A cell phone emits microwave radiation at a strength from 0.75 to 1 watt, but may be regulated to as little as 1 milliwatt if near a wifi system (not a far distance). Microwaves are absorbed by body water as heat. The human body generates about 100 watts of heat sitting, and 300-400 watts at high activity. The circulatory system facilitates the maintenance of a nearly uniform body temperature. On this basis, it is not likely that cell phones are serious threats to health. (I have no objection to not holding them close to one's ear. Cell phones have atrocious human engineering. Alone, I typically use the speakerphone option and hold it so the microphone is directly in front of my lips.)
If you want to stay away from blue light, don't go out and look at the sky---which is ridiculous, since we are adapted to blue daylight. The human retina is not terribly selective about the blue light that it can see, with a response curve ranging from 400 to 500 nanometers wavelength. Light having a particular wavelength is simply light and will cause the retinal cell to respond the same as light from another wavelength in the range of the response curve. (Also, blue light is a necessary component of "white" light, so there is no way to get around it.)
My own surmise is that devotion to a cell phone is a sensory disconnect from reality and society. In that respect, not too much different from drugs and daydreams. From which springboard, it may not be surprising that the youth of today can get seriously involved with AI artifacts.
Agreed. Zombie slabs.
I may be a boomer, but I can change a flat tire without calling AAA.
And how many boomers failed to pass these life skills on? Blaming a child for lack of education, in any regard, by their elders is its own form of laziness. Can pay yourself on the back all you want, but this crap doesn’t happen overnight or in a vacuum…
This is true, younger generations haven't failed, they have been failed. Hand your children over to be essentially raised by the government and then act surprised when they all come out as socialist and communist nitwits with no critical thinking skills, or any other kind of skills...
What makes you think they didn't try?
I taught my daughter to lay out patterns and run a sewing machine when she was around eight. I taught her to cook and bake from scratch. I taught her to crochet and knit.
And this was in addition to things I signed her up for that I never learned to do because my parents didn't have the money for "enrichment".
Now I was lucky because she was cooperative. Many of her peers -- their parents would tell me how they would sign their kids up for stuff and the kids would lose interest and quit.
Now I personally wouldn't allow a kid to quit something like music lessons in the early days (when kids get frustrated because learning an instrument takes time). But some parents don't like to argue and let the kid have their way.
But don't assume they didn't try to give their kids advantages.
But that’s the difference, you tried and PERSISTED when it got tough, thereby teaching them even more life skills. You didn’t give up at the first sign of resistance and then wonder why your child does the same. I’m not saying every boomer, by any means, bc the problem is lazy parenting across the board. But the ME generation, on average, has far more to answer for than many want to accept. I.e. Parents who let their kids quit midway through a sports season ‘bc the kid didn’t like it,’ rather than having the hard convos about keeping a commitment, because it made them uncomfortable and/or deep down they ‘wanted their Saturday’s back,’ but then want to act surprised when their kid follows their lead (rather than listening to the benign lip service) and doesn’t persist in anything.
(Also in before anyone mentions the “participation trophy generation” as if we the kids were on the little league boards demanding the rule changes, rather than our parents who didn’t want to honestly explain to the kids who barely practiced once a week, why the kids who practiced 5x/wk were performing better and winning. Same psychology; same result; same dodging of responsibility)
You did it right and I’m sure your child(ren), and society, are better for it fren.
So can I - and before the cars were so "SMART" I could do many things under the hood that I cannot even find anymore. I loved my OLD car that I was able to change the oil, change a tire, add air to a tire, knew how to clean the engine without disabling it 🤣add water to a radiator and on and on and on. Now I'm too old to do it even if I had one of my old great cars! Today the damn monitor tells me I have an issue with whatever tells me my tires are low! I just delete it every day and have my husband check my tires.
My son told me it costs quite a bit to have that damn message go away because they would have to check every damn tire I have to see which one is causing the issue. So hubby has to check the tires every now and again!
Yeah, If you are not handicapped and can't change a flat then you have your priorities in life all wrong.
Here's my theory. I'm GenX, although I've been called a "boomer" 1) because I'm conservative and 2) because some dumb-as-rocks 'tards think anyone over 30 is a "boomer" because making an effort to know what a term actually means is too hard even though they are attached to a device that gives them access to a wealth of information previous generations couldn't even dream of.
But I digress.
There are knumbskulls in every generation. The thing is, stupid used to be lethal, or at least painful. Definitely in the boomer generation and to a lesser extent in GenX, idiocy had real consequences. The smarter of us survived and the rest either got smart or didn't make it. Not to mention, many boomers got eliminated in 'Nam and GenX in smaller skirmishes.
I think each successive generation loses fewer of it's morons over time as we get better at keeping the species alive and that brings the average intelligence down. And that's why the newest generations are trending stupider in comparison.
A smaller factor is those dipshits that are destined to off themselves in those recent generations haven't had a full lifetime to accomplish it yet, so there's still time and hope, on average.
^this^
LOL! Go Boomers!
And who raised the kids? Who set (and still control) the systems in place that fostered this kind of degradation? What is the average age of almost every school administrator, county school board official, DoEd board member, etc? To act like these kids just created the environment and raised themselves in it, is disingenuous at best. Boomers had no to little DeptOfEducation, genX and millennials got it full force, and now Z and A are experiencing the death spiral still managed by their elders. Boomers grasping at straws here rather than the necessary self reflection, as per usual. Do better, BE better…
Actually....if boomers raised the little darlings the way we were raised we'd be in jail.
If I had a dollar for every time I (or one of my classmates) got smacked with a counterbrush for not knowing the answer to a question, or not having our desk neat, or not having a homework assignment, or having the wrong expression on our faces, I could pay off the National debt!
You have NO CLUE! I don't think you really want your child to be forced to stand in a garbage can all day because the essay they submitted was considered "garbage".
I have horrible memories of my childhood school days (as do most "boomers"). So yes, we're "smarter" but we were damaged in other ways.
In an effort to spare future generations the horrors we went through -- they let things become a little too lax. It's gone from one extreme to another extreme. And it needs to be corrected to something in the middle.
But to try to blame "boomers" for trying to be more gentle considering the hell they went through is really not very understanding.
I was born just after the war. I was "disciplined" at home (whipped with whatever came to hand) and "disciplined" at school - cane, leather belt, leather strop, blackboard duster, baseball bat, you name it.
I used to read a book nearly every single day. A complete book; a different book each day. Admittedly it was mostly science fiction but it got me interested in UFOs and scientific stuff.
By the time I had kids, that had all changed in the UK. Parents weren't allowed to thrash their kids; if a neighbor reported you, you'd be arrested. So we had to figure out more devious punishments - not always effective. Gentle persuasion became essential.
In addition, schools now had ever-changing curriculums/curriculae. Out with spelling, grammar, arithmetic and useful history lessons. Only I didn't find out why my kids were so ignorant until long after they left school. Even had I known, there was little I could have done about it because The Powers That Be had changed things so that BOTH parents had to work long hours just to get by.
Luckily, our kids were angels compared with most. But I couldn't get them to read more than half a page; still can't and they are married and in their forties. Still dumb because they won't read. Attention span of a goldfish.
So how many non-boomers here have read a book every day at any time in your life? I did it throughout my teens and onward. Nowadays I still read but mostly an hour before bed. Plus all the research during the day, if that counts.
Oh, and I wrote my memoirs a couple of years ago. Gave to my kids. None of them has read it.
They all need to go back to school for ten years.
They can go back to the same schools that failed them, they still won't learn anything of value from those indoctrination centers.
"We need to re-educate ALL of the failed children in America."
Is that better?
The current dumbass teachers were never a factor in my opinion.
At least they are good at trading Pokémon cards.
Don Johnson: "Boomer? Okay, watcha want, you pantywaist twerp?"
(For those who don't know, "Boomer" is the Navy nickname for submarines carrying strategic ballistic missiles, our most powerful mobile weapon system.)
"You twerps: you don't know any shit, you can't take any shit, and you don't give a shit."
Generational stereotypes are so overblown. Except when it comes to Boomers - they’re the worst! 😄 Seriously though, in broad generalities they were the first entitled, self-absorbed generation and have become worse as older adults. And don’t forget- boomers brought us draft dodging, DEI, LGBTQIA+%!£^*?, socialized medicine, etc., and they were the ones who despite starting out as “don’t trust anyone over 30” ended up perfecting big government fascism.
At least we didn't vote 4 times to keep FDR in office, along with the New Deal, or create the United Nations, or vote for LBJ and Welfare. We were really enthusiastic to go to the Moon, though. At least we weren't trying to turn into the other sex.
Only thing worse than generational stereotypes is someone who believes in them.
The boomers can go ahead and pat themselves on the back. You are officially smarter than the generations you were responsible for teaching and molding into decent people.
Way to go. Take a bow. Its a real accomplishment to not preserve what was given to you and making it better. Now the hard times can begin.