I would argue it's not just GenZ who lack the skills to debate things, just look at our gov't & campaign debates. Horrible!
I have friends & some family members who are hardcore libs who believe everything on CNN is true & everything on Fox or any conservative channel is false. We don't politics. However, just about everything these days is weaponized propaganda so we don't talk much at all. I have to limit conversations on any one topic to about 20 minutes max.
It would be interesting (fun?) to take a group of GenZ'ers who saturate themselves daily online and another group of GenZ'ers who don't much use the Internet (or at all) nor TV and put them all in the same room. Their charter is to discuss among themselves solutions to problems. The problems are written on the whiteboard. Any fighting will be dealt with severe (non-physical) punishment.
I did this with my daughter one summer after she turned 16 (6 grueling weeks worth with no Internet, no TV, no phones, no friends) and she came out a whole other person, for the better. Kicked most of her old clique friends to the curb when she returned and graduated HS at the top of her class. Course, that's only one person vice a very large population of GenZ. (~68 million in the U.S.)
I told my work associates back in 2008 that this device (smartphone) is going to doom humanity. They looked at me like I was some alien lunatic.
I believe this culture phenomenon will pass, the pendulum will eventually swing the other way, but the societal landscape will be forever changed and some of the cult mentality, new age religions, and Marxist / Socialist ideologies will still persist and impede us for years to come.
As usual, Ninurta summed it up quite well.
Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality that are creating in the real world.
“If those backing the social justice agenda could have everything they wanted, what would the country look like?”
Thomas Sowell: "We’d be killing each other."
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I have friends & some family members who are hardcore libs who believe everything on CNN is true & everything on Fox or any conservative channel is false. We don't politics. However, just about everything these days is weaponized propaganda so we don't talk much at all. I have to limit conversations on any one topic to about 20 minutes max.
It would be interesting (fun?) to take a group of GenZ'ers who saturate themselves daily online and another group of GenZ'ers who don't much use the Internet (or at all) nor TV and put them all in the same room. Their charter is to discuss among themselves solutions to problems. The problems are written on the whiteboard. Any fighting will be dealt with severe (non-physical) punishment.
I did this with my daughter one summer after she turned 16 (6 grueling weeks worth with no Internet, no TV, no phones, no friends) and she came out a whole other person, for the better. Kicked most of her old clique friends to the curb when she returned and graduated HS at the top of her class. Course, that's only one person vice a very large population of GenZ. (~68 million in the U.S.)
I told my work associates back in 2008 that this device (smartphone) is going to doom humanity. They looked at me like I was some alien lunatic.
I believe this culture phenomenon will pass, the pendulum will eventually swing the other way, but the societal landscape will be forever changed and some of the cult mentality, new age religions, and Marxist / Socialist ideologies will still persist and impede us for years to come.
As usual, Ninurta summed it up quite well.
Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality that are creating in the real world.
“If those backing the social justice agenda could have everything they wanted, what would the country look like?”
Thomas Sowell: "We’d be killing each other."
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell