believe that adults
shouldn’t hold
today’s children to
the same standard they were held fifty years ago. There’s a constant comparison made between kids my age and their superiors, but I’d like to argue that the reasoning in which it is measured is entirely unfair.
The way in which today’s young adults are operating with overwhelming stress, constant social pressure, and anxieties rising like everyone's gas prices, are not cut from the same cloth as when our parents stitched their lives. Many if not all the problems most prominent in our society today have existed consistently, but it is not by any means living to the same degree that it is right now. The fault may be pushed toward our phones, the constant time spent staring at the screen while blue light taints our eyes; all motivation vacuumed from us. But may I remind you, that social media companies have designed their apps for this very purpose of keeping us stuck in this never-ending loop of scrolling.
Nowadays, dopamine and serotonin boosts can be accessed in a matter of moments. Why would anyone want to go through the extra trouble of obtaining a natural sensation when it could be achieved so much quicker? Thus, results in what adults will call laziness, but it’s all a construct. We’ve been born into this piece of culture. Our phones and our devices and our ‘laziness’ have become a normal part of our lives and the world. Everything around us, including the feeling and reactions we get when scrolling has now become artificial. There are shortcuts to all these ways of being that make their previous successors obsolete.
I