Source: Reason
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
“Every week, new laments from or about Gen Z seem to go viral, spewing desperate and desolate pronunciations about technology. The doom is pushed by some actual members of Gen Z and even more by the press and pundits eager to fret over kids these days and to moralize about technology. And the big idea undergirding it seems to be that young people are absolutely powerless to resist being lonely, degraded zombies — phone always in hand, unable to connect with fellow human beings, addicted to the dopamine hits they attain from social media likes and content slop. But who are we helping by shilling the Doomed Zoomer narrative? It’s certainly not young people who are being served by it.” (07/30/25)
https://reason.com/2025/07/30/gen-z-isnt-powerless-against-technology/