[ericmcer]

This is a weird response, but also validates the points raised in the article. You say you don't care what young people think, but then immediately attempt to validate your generation to them.

Personally I think the thing old people have (information, experience) is not that valuable anymore. We are deluged with information and your grandpas trick for performing some household task is irrelevant. Your grandparents/parents best life advice is going to sound bland when we have instant access to advice from the top minds in every field. Worried about your life having no meaning? Here is a compilation of centenarians biggest regrets.

[jleyank]

No, they don’t care what I think (hence being invisible). It doesn’t bug me too much, certainly not enough to be an ass about it. Sorry if I wasn’t clear with the invisible comment.

However, reading your comment again proves my point. Perhaps not invisible, certainly irrelevant. One suggestion, pay attention to what we all did wrong then so as to not make the same mistakes now.

[dc-programmer]

Im on the younger end and I don’t agree with this analysis at all. If it were true you’d see people converging to handful of worldviews espoused by experts which does not map to reality at all.

The truth is humans aren’t optimization machines that gravitate towards high quality inputs. There’s a massive emotional component to learning and development that can’t be ignored. A child will take to the opinions of people they have an emotional connection too over whatever google spits out.

The thing is at a certain age peers become more important than family in terms of emotional connection, at which point adults become to feel alienated. But this is not new, adolescents aren’t basically wired by evolution to break from their elders.