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kleinbl00  ·  2447 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

They're too young to come up with their own name. When they do, they'll make the 'boomers eat shit, as every generation after the 'boomers has so succinctly done. They tried call Gen X "latchkey kids" and then they tried calling them "the MTV Generation" and then Strauss and Howe showed just how little attention they were actually paying to those kids and called them I-shit-you-not the thirteenth generation until Coupland told them to eat shit with "Generation X" and then the 'boomers were so cowed they tried calling Millennials "Generation Y" until Strauss and Howe actually got something to stick (probably because they were talking about their kids, rather than that annoying generation they didn't raise) and now they're trying real hard to make the current generation of kids "Generation Z" because fuck you, that's why.

You watch. They'll come up with something like "The Resistance" but cooler. Generally when your parents spend your entire adolescence worrying that you're going to amount to nothing because you suck so hard you aren't allowed out, you aren't allowed freedom and they think you're going to kill yourself because The Snapchats are the only thing you care about, you backlash hard against their patronizing bullshit.

The kids are all right.