• fmstrat
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    135 days ago

    I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.

    I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.

    I also think people stop adapting as they age, and intellect declines medically, leading to the impression that the younger are “smarter”.

    • Riskable
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      24 days ago

      I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.

      One has only to point a finger at the previous generation to figure out who is responsible for, “kids these days.”

    • @Mickey7OP
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      05 days ago

      I don’t think any generation is “smarter” than the last at any given age.

      I think the latest generation is smarter in some technological aspects because they learn them in school. Older generations didn’t have that opportunity because those technologies didn’t exist then. When I have a technical question related to things like Iphones I always ask the youngest person that I know.

      One advantage of older generations is that they actually lived during historic events while the young can only read an author’s interepretation of those events

      • @shalafi
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        24 days ago

        The generation that fought fascism in the West is almost completely dead. And so, here we go again.