When we talk about Gen Z , or any generation who are currently 13-28, it’s so often in the same way. They speak a weird language, they’re lazy, and don’t know how to behave at work. Their values are up the spout and they won’t amount to anything. They will usher in the destruction of the world.

“The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint … As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behaviour and dress,” said Peter the Hermit in 1274.

People were aghast at the flappers of the 1920s, the long-haired hippies of the 70s, the punks of the 80s. 90s teenagers were apathetic and constantly drunk. I was born in 1980, so fall between the two stools of the hosewater-drink

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