Generation Z

Those who study generational demographics for marketing and propaganda purposes have labeled the upcoming generation of youth as Generation Z, the Fascist-Racist-Sexist-Homophobic Alt-right has taken to referring to them as Generation Zyklon to represent a growing number of youth who are embracing Auntysemitism and rejecting the SJW programming, political correctness, affirmative action, the worship of racial diversity and the normalization of all manner of sexual perversity and gender dysphoria mental illness.

But most of all, they have earned the Zyklon designation for publicly questioning the undue influence of T.H.E.Y. whose members are in the top of nearly every industry of influence and control in our rapidly declining Western Civilization.

This, I think, is partially the result of having just come through 8 years of the most Pozzed Presidential Administration in history. During eight years of the fake president's reign of error, the poz progressive leftist commie deviants -- aka SJWs -- used the levers of centralized FedGov power to push the envelope of cultural marxism and legitimize the mass media promotion of degeneracy and cultural degradation to new historical lows for USA Inc.

But it can't be all due to having 8 years of a community organizer leading the country into the leftist abyss of equality and vibrancy. I have now come to believe the largest difference between Generation Z and past generations, is that we are seeing a generation that is being raised with the most powerful Soma ever devised - the Smartphone.

It's not Generation Zyklon, it's Generation Zombie.

Mutually assured delusions from the mobile affirmation device deluge has got humanity in the grips of a feverish compulsion that rivals any previous pandemic of substance addiction. The total iAssimilation of society is nearly complete.

The hallowed halls of Academentia are beginning to coin nomenclature to deal with the most dramatic change agent of human behavior in the 21st Century.

Ever hear of Nomophobia?
 

Have you ever experienced nomophobia (no-mobile-phone-phobia)?  Nomophobia is the fear of losing your cellphone or having to go without it. Studies show that almost all Americans (95 percent) have a cellphone. Symptoms of nomophobia include panic, lack of ability to concentrate, and repeated checking of devices for updates. About 58 percent of men and 47 percent of women feel high stress when their cell phones are off. Smart phones are even replacing the need for laptops and desktop computers because of convenience and easy access. Also, less homes have traditional broadband service, making cellphone use the primary source of online activity.

One source says that a growing number of students take showers with their phones and if that doesn’t sound intimate enough, 34 percent of people interviewed in one study said they have answered their phone during “personal time” with their significant other.

That's if they even have a significant other. The drop in teenage dating and sexual activity has is in steep decline with Generation Zombie:

Teenagers from this group have grown up with social media and smart phones, meaning they spend far more time socialising with one another online than they do in person. The decline in dating corresponds to dwindling sexual activity among this cohort, Prof Twenge has found. Drawing on surveys of 11 million young people and a series of in-depth interviews she found that teenagers in their final year of school are going out less often than 13-year-olds did as recently as 2009.

Prof Twenge also noted that 56 per cent of 14 to 18-year-olds went out on dates in 2015 whereas for Generation X and Baby Boomers, it was around 85 per cent. Meanwhile, sexual activity among 14 and 15-year-olds has dropped by almost 40 per cent since 1991. The average teenager now has had sex for the first time by the time they are 17-years-old, a full year later than the average generation X.  

And it's not as if the kids are blissfully unaware of their addiction and it's effects on their social life, as Twenge notes in an interview she had with a 13 year girl:

She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone. That’s just the way her generation is, she said. “We didn’t have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people.”

The effects of the smart phone on the brains of the 21st Century citizenry are even more significant when you consider that even if a person's phone is just sitting nearby it's owner unused for a few moments, it still has an effect on the zombified-mind experiencing phantom alert signalling:

A smartphone can tax its user’s cognition simply by sitting next to them on a table, or being anywhere in the same room with them, suggests a study published recently in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. It finds that a smartphone can demand its user’s attention even when the person isn’t using it or consciously thinking about it. Even if a phone’s out of sight in a bag, even if it’s set to silent, even if it’s powered off, its mere presence will reduce someone’s working memory and problem-solving skills....

....In other words: If you grow dependent on your smartphone, it becomes a magical device that silently shouts your name at your brain at all times. (Now remember that this magical shouting device is the most popular consumer product ever made. In the developed world, almost everyone owns one of these magical shouting devices and carries it around with them everywhere.)

Brings to mind that line from the movie Fight Club, "...the things you own, end up owning you."