In my day (the 90s) teenagers were either oversensitive or callous, brain-dead slackers or hopelessly naive bleeding hearts or shallow fashion punks and pseudohippies aping the older and better social movements - and I forget what all. Also, TV and video games had fried our brains and made us unthinkingly violent, and we sat around in basements all day sniffing glue and never went outside. And when we did go outside, it was just to scrawl graffiti all over everything. Also our self-esteem was too high and we had too many piercings. The one thing we never got shit for, to my knowledge, was taking too many pictures of ourselves, though like every single other generation we took exactly as many pictures of ourselves as technology and economy allowed.
I can't tell whether the press is less mean now about Kids These Days than it used to be, because I've been avoiding that kind of article for at least ten years now. So it might very well be. Certainly it feels like the media landscape has gotten better in a lot of ways - not all, but some. But that is just an uninformed impression.
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Date: 2017-01-14 11:36 pm (UTC)I can't tell whether the press is less mean now about Kids These Days than it used to be, because I've been avoiding that kind of article for at least ten years now. So it might very well be. Certainly it feels like the media landscape has gotten better in a lot of ways - not all, but some. But that is just an uninformed impression.