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Definitely agreed with this point and I haven't completely lost hope yet that these kids will wake up and see what's going on. I'm 10x more willing to forgive and give more chances to gen Z that have grown up being brainwashed by garbage than I am as far as my own peers and older are concerned.
I'm starting to firmly believe that the biggest cause of all of this is enshittification. And I'm not just talking about Facebook but also the music, movies and games industries. In fact I recently made a post ranting about how Sonic the Hedgehog has been reduced from an anti-authoritarian icon to a fluffy teddy bear that's all about 'family' and top 40 pop and McDonald's references.
The grifters like Joe Rogan that showed up aren't the cause but rather a symptom of an entertainment industry that stopped producing art and started chasing lines on graphs that go up and down and giving us nothing but safe, middle of the road, lowest common denominator slop. So there was an opening for anything other than that slop. While I grew up with NOFX shouting about how the idiots are taking over, these kids grew up with fucking Jay Z and Kanye and whatever other fucking assholes singing about dancing in the club and walking around like living billboards for Ray Ban and Nike.
IMO, when the revolution comes, the people currently running things in the entertainment industry need to be amongst the first to see rope.