Know Thyself through your DE-GENERATION
The following is the headline for a Fortune article that I found rather terrible, it was titled:
If you have room for another awful thing to think about, give it a read. The article begins:
‘Earlier this year, in written testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said that Gen Z is less cognitively capable than previous generations, despite its unprecedented access to technology. He said Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the previous one.’
Less cognitively capable?! Can we twirl that little nugget around in our brains for a moment? Meaning things like ‘literacy’ and ‘numeracy’ are on the decline. It is believed the dipping test scores correlate with time spent on screens in and out of school. Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”
Gen Z, I’m so sorry this was done to you. For most of us who require defining definitions; Gen Z are those born between 1997 and 2012. You know the generation that drew the teeny tiny straw, the ones who need AI to get jobs but weren’t taught how to use AI, the ones born into a world without empathy, those who will never afford to own their own home, will most likely make less than their parents, have been physically poisoned by monster corporations their entire lives and most likely suffer from physical and/or mental issues related to these and other environmental factors, paid too much for a worthless education, and now we learn that because of how they were taught as children, the are less cognitively capable?! The article goes on to describe this pitiable generation with uplifting phrases like ‘eroding learning capabilities‘, ‘a less capable population‘ and Horvath warned; it endangers how humans are able to overcome existential challenges in the decades to come… We’re facing challenges more complex and far-reaching than any in human history—from overpopulation to evolving diseases to moral drift,” he told Fortune. “Now, more than ever, we need a generation able to grapple with nuance, hold multiple truths in tension, and creatively tackle problems that are stumping the greatest adult minds of today.”
oh dear.
Can we break out just one phrase:
Can YOU think of anyone you know between the ages of 14 and 29 that you believe capable of ‘grappling with nuance, hold multiple truths in tension, and creatively tackle problems that are stumping the greatest adult minds of today‘?!
I hope you do because most of the ones I know don’t know how to do laundry.
Last Updated on 04/29/2026 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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