to put this a different way: are people really dumber than they were in the past? are people really more "incurious" than they used to be? is everyone really just a mindless consumer now, totally unlike before? has general critical thinking really gotten worse in comparison to the past? is this new young generation really dumber and lazier than anyone ever before? are people really brainrotted by an obsession with sex, unlike the intellectual refinement of the past? are people really undersexed and frigid to the point of dysfunction, unlike the past when everyone listened to their bodies and had fun? when was it that all of these problems didn't exist? how can you tell? what are the differences between then and now? when you think about one of these "incurious" people who likes popcorn movies and uses sparknotes to do their english homework, are you picturing a teen girl who you think blames her problems on a disability she claims to have (but totally doesn't cause she self dxed on tiktok) in order to dodge accountability? do you just wish everyone could be like they were in the past when everything was better and people were smarter and more honorable and had normal sex and took responsibility for themselves instead of pathologizing and blaming (fake) disabilities? does this kind of ideology remind you of anything?
