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When I say Gen Z and newer are fucking stupid, I mean it. Many have very low media literacy, don't understand how to use a desktop computer and are wholly absorbed with social media.
It isn't really their fault though. Education salaries have dried up in the public sector over the last 20 years. I had typing classes, various computer literacy classes and higher maths available to me prior to high school. Somehow these programs have changed or evaporated while band and sports programs continue to swell.
"Many don't know how to use an abacus and are wholly absorbed by television!"
Yea, it's the same old complaint as every generation. Not like there's evidence of actual mental decline like... oh wait...
And yet the dumbest shit I hear on a consistent basis comes from boomers. Maybe you're just surrounded by dumb kids? Maybe you're just too dumb to get what they're into and talking about? Kids these days are insanely smart, but not skilled. Maybe that's what you were trying to express? Most of the kids I know are really intelligent and advanced for their age, and definitely so for the same comparable ages when I was a kid.
I'd argue that anyone who was happy to make education worse for future generations was "fucking stupid". They cut their nose off to spite their face, so to speak.
Why would someone want doctors, surgeons, scientists, and everyone in every other skilled profession to have less of an education? What part of that isn't "fucking stupid"? Too many people don't think about the long term consequences. What's going to happen when the older generations retire?
I hope that you're trying to stop education cuts, otherwise you're a part of the problem that you're talking about.