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So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What an A-hole. Guess he can't afford a saw.

And those damn screws.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Bro, you can grab any old saw and cut off an end it -takes practically zero knowledge.

Stop bitching about “kids these days”.

More likely, the person either didn’t have a saw or was just lazy. This isn’t a generational issue. Don’t be ageist.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This isn’t a “kids these days” at all. No need for you to be offended.

It was a request to pass on generalist knowledge from generations that had a lot more exposure to it.

I left plenty of room in my statement with conditional language to allow those with knowledge like this to exist regardless of age, but you went and made it all about you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You literally start off with

While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. …

Your comment is inherently ageist. Full stop. And by the way, there’s plenty of boomers who never knew how to fix shit.

You didn’t have to, but you made it about entire swaths of generations.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

And I’m not wrong in those two paragraphs.

Again, you’re making this all about you. Jist because you might possess a little knowledge you make it a case to exclude anyone offering any to others, and patently this image shows there are some in meed.

Well done.

My opinion not good enough?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210623-generational-amnesia-the-memory-loss-that-harms-the-planet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The only really relevant thing in that article is

"Generational trashing is actually eternal human behaviour," wrote the novelist Douglas Coupland in an essay for The Guardian earlier this month. And he should know: he coined the term "Generation X". Baby boomers, he recalls, once poured scorn on Gen-Xers like him, who themselves grew up to be sniffy about the [avocado-and-toast eating habits of "snowflake" Millennials. And now it's the turn of Generation Z, with their TikToks and identity politics, to be judged by their elders.

There's actually a scientific term for this: the "kids these days" effect, which can be traced all the way back to the writing of the Ancient Greeks. "Since at least 624 BC, people have lamented the decline of the present generation of youth relative to earlier generations," according to the psychologists who named the phenomenon. "The pervasiveness of complaints about 'kids these days' across millennia suggests that these criticisms are neither accurate nor due to the idiosyncrasies of a particular culture or time – but rather represent a pervasive illusion of humanity."

The rest of the article isn’t about people forgetting how to mend a fence and generally being incapable.

Again. This fence thing didn’t have to be generational. You. Went. There.

Think about that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Your’e a real asshole looking for an argument

You skipped right past

As each new generation inherits the world, vital knowledge is forgotten. In the latest in our Wise Words series, Richard Fisher explores the language that has emerged to describe that phenomenon.

And the article goes on beyond the part you quoted to feed your argument to point out that yes, indeed thing are lost between generations. No, they don’t specifically mention fence mending. Generational amnesia is a far broader concept than just how to fix a car.

You went straight for the fight.

You turned an appeal for people to pass knowledge on to those who may not get as much exposure to it as past generations and what…? Fuck you, don’t teach? Everyone knows everything already - apparently you do?

Boomers dying off and you gotta pick a fight with a new generation? I don’t do “kids these days” arguments because they’re stupid, but pot meet kettle, I never intended a generational argument but you certainly made it one.

In fact, Millennials are unfamiliar with a broad range of life skills. They are less likely than older generations to know how to sew, make basic home repairs, or drive manual-transmission cars. With GPS always at their fingertips, many never really learned to use physical landmarks to guide them. Some can’t even imagine how people functioned before mobile IT. One Millennial wrote an article asking older people how they used to look up information, meet up with friends in public places, and handle getting lost without smartphones.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2014/07/02/millennials-struggle-to-pass-life-skills-101/

And I don’t even like the fact they singled out millennials. It’s simply knowledge lost over time, not an X vs zoomer thing.