The Dumbest Generation Grows Up
From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults
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3.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $14.99
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Publisher Description
From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults
Back in 2008, Mark Bauerlein was a voice crying in the wilderness. As experts greeted the new generation of “Digital Natives” with extravagant hopes for their high-tech future, he pegged them as the “Dumbest Generation.”
Today, their future doesn’t look so bright, and their present is pretty grim. The twenty-somethings who spent their childhoods staring into a screen are lonely and purposeless, unfulfilled at work and at home. Many of them are even suicidal. The Dumbest Generation Grows Up is an urgently needed update on the Millennials, explaining their not-so-quiet desperation and, more important, the threat that their ignorance poses to the rest of us. Lacking skills, knowledge, religion, and a cultural frame of reference, Millennials are anxiously looking for something to fill the void. Their mentors have failed them. Unfortunately, they have turned to politics to plug the hole in their souls.
Knowing nothing about history, they are convinced that it is merely a catalogue of oppression, inequality, and hatred. Why, they wonder, has the human race not ended all this injustice before now? And from the depths of their ignorance rises the answer: Because they are the first ones to care! All that is needed is to tear down our inherited civilization and replace it with their utopian aspirations. For a generation unacquainted with the constraints of human nature, anything seems possible.
Having diagnosed the malady before most people realized the patient was sick, Mark Bauerlein surveys the psychological and social wreckage and warns that we cannot afford to do this to another generation.
Customer Reviews
Sounds like Gen-Z to me
When are Millennials going to catch a break? Most of the book, which makes great points, really deals with Gen-Z. Doesn’t the author realize that the oldest of the Millennial generation have entered their 40’s? Yes Gen-Z are overly sensitive, easily triggered, entitled and don’t grasp the concept of satire and irony. They don’t care about anything that didn’t happen outside of their lifespan. And think the sum-total of all history is wrapped up in race. They think socialism is a great idea that should be tried, probably because they have no real clue what that meant for countries that went through, because it didn’t happen in the lifetime. Therefore it is irrelevant. But it’s about time us Boomers and Gen-Xers need to step up and admit we raised this generation. As far as Americans being uninformed and becoming dummer. Well quiz just about any person on the street basic questions on the subject of history, civics, and current affairs and you’ll find a good 80% don’t know much at all. That came about when Americans stopped reading books.