A screaming child who had his iPad taken might come to your mind. Alpha Kids are reportedly not doing well in school and many are subject to the algorithms of today. They will have a front row seat to the future we are headed towards.
Do you have hope that Generation Alpha will live happy and fulfilling lives?
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Honestly, they seem kind of dumb, which I’m not blaming them for.
But that could just be the typical “next generation sucks” vibe you get from every aging generation.
I really hope they aren’t actually dumb because that’s going to make my senior years a lot bleaker.
Well, they’re children of millennials who had children early or are wealthy or stupid enough to have children in bad times. So, extrapolating that, their parents are either resourced enough that they’re not part of this statistical narrative or their parents are as obvious as most boomers but worse off.
Doomed, I tell you, doomed.
My Gen Alpha children will probably lead happy and fulfilling lives. Sure they don’t have a privileged childhood but they have food security and two loving parents which is the best predictor of future adult happiness that I know of.
I have high hopes actually. Yes, they faced and are facing a lot of very frustrating trouble, but they are also much more aware of all sorts of issues. I picture the average Gen Alpha as sensitive, empathetic, passionate and nihilistic, which in sum isn’t a bad start imo.
I used to picture Gen Z like that too, until a large percentage started voting for fascists
Looking at what politics gen Alpha favors…we are fucked
People are surprisingly adaptable.
You can be sure there will be fallout from social media, generative AI, and cutting corners in our education system. Is this going to set us back in terms of “progress”? That depends on how you measure progress.
Once things break down, and they will break down because they can’t be maintained without the skills that built them, people will have to relearn how to do things they’ve relied on tech for, including how to think critically.
Undereducated and ignorant doesn’t mean stagnat and lacking in ability. The world they find themselves in when they hit 40 may be harsh, but that might help to cement the lessons it teaches more quickly. It will likely be painful, but it would be painful for someone from Gen X or a Millennial as well. They’ll have to learn to adapt to a new climate, a new economy, and a new culture that we can only speculate about. Much of the knowledge and philosophy we’ve considered essential to daily life may be useless to them anyway.
So, as a generation, they’re “lost” to us… but probably not so lost they can’t find themselves after we’re gone.
Happy and fulfilling lives… I prefer Matthew Inman’s take on the subject of happiness. By that standard, some of them will probably find satisfaction and fulfillment in things we don’t yet know or understand.
I know this is old man yelling at cloud rage bait, but no, I do not have hope for them. maybe for some of the older gen z, but kids in the last 10 years, unless they have amazing, tech literate parents, hell no, they’re screwed.
Youngbloods can’t read, but they will rock you in Playstation
I don’t play Station
My buddy teaches 5th grade, so kids born in 2016 or so who were learning to read during covid. He definitely noticed a drop off in general. Mainly reading, but also math. Also telling the time. Apparently a few couldn’t even tell the time on a digital clock.
Not being able to tell the time with a digital clock is crazy.
Honestly, a little, because Gen Z gives me some hope. A lot of them are more politically and environmentally and socially active and progressive than previous generations, and I hope that they make the world better. Millennials can last the groundwork for that and try to work with them.
Keep in mind, some of the children in Alpha had their schooling methodology switched up during the Covid-19 pandemic. They went from learning in a classroom environment to learning in an online environment for a couple of years.
The teaching strategies do not translate the same across those two mediums, and the teachers had to adapt to it as fast as they could, but they were not experienced online teachers.
Teachers with 10, 15, and 20+ years of classroom experience all of a sudden had to teach their classes online. They has to learn the system themselves, as well as teach their students how to use it.
Many schools were underfunded and were not able to offer adequate technology to accommodate for this change. Many families couldn’t even afford internet, so governments had to establish voucher programs to fund low-bandwidth tiers of internet for them (which develops at the speed of red tape government).
At least one adult had to be home with their children if schools were online-only, so they had one less income earning presence in the home, unless they were able to work online themself. That affects the longterm financial goals of each family, which they might still be recovering from to this day.
By the time children went back to a classroom setting, they were missing some key skills that they would have picked up normally. Now you have 3rd graders returning to a classroom in 5th grade, but they still have 3rd grade reading levels. They have to learn 5th grade level material, and take 5th grade level testing. The online material they learned online during the covid years were a completely different set of educational material versus whats used in a classroom, so now the students have to adjust AGAIN.
Anyway, thats just my thoughts on it.
lol they are the lab rats for unholy ultracapitalist social experimentation in the quest for endless growth. we hit diminishing returns expanding outwards a hundred years ago so now we’re colonizing human eyeballs and attention spans and it’s not looking great for the colonists.
I’m hopeful that we’re in the midst of a right wing extinction burst that will be over in 5-10 years. They will get to participate in the rebuilding that follows.
I’m fearful that we’re seeing the launch of a new dynasty.
