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I still remember in high school when my best friend had never played pokemon, so we (3 pokemon players) hand her a gameboy color (?) with OG Pokemon Blue. It's on a previous save of one of the friends so her Pokemon are lvl 35+ she walks into Mt. Moon, and at the first pokemon she sees, she goes "Why is this bat green?" Instant freakout from all of us, ONE POKEBALL LEFT, and all 3 of us arguing over the best course of action.

one of the wild things about people’s stubborn insistence on misunderstanding The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is that the narrator anticipates an audience that won’t engage with the text, just in the opposite direction. Throughout the story are little asides asking what the reader is willing to believe in. Can you believe in a utopia? What if I told you this? What about this? Can you believe in the festivals? The towers by the sea? Can we believe that they have no king? Can we believe that they are joyful? Does your utopia have technology, luxury, sex, temples, drugs? The story is consulting you as it’s being told, framed as a dialogue. It literally asks you directly: do you only believe joy is possible with suffering? And, implicitly, why?

ok i know that the generations / age cohorts thing is not, strictly speaking, a real thing. but let's be fun for a second: