What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control.
While I don’t agree with Kat that this needs to be done with the aid of alcohol, sure, it can be. And her thesis is absolutely correct.
This is a generation that is both highly conflict-averse and virtually allergic to risk, particularly when it comes to markers of autonomous adulthood like driving, working, or sex. The bosses of Gen Z employees report that they can’t make eye contact, take criticism, or even ask questions when they don’t know how to do something. The post-work drink is dead, apparently, thanks to young workers who prefer boundaries to bonding.
I remember when dipshit Alice Goldfuss wrote some clown-ass crap about why did people go to bars when they could just drink the same thing at home for much cheaper. Because, you fucking doofus, people go to bars to be social, to hang out in a neutral place with their friends, to see what the night brings. I’m not really all that social and even I can understand that1.
One time, I went to a bar with some friends (and I barely drink) and I wound up sitting at the bar chatting with a minor TV actress and Charles Fuckin’ Barkley. Now do you think that would’ve happened if I’d stayed at home? Hell to the no, y’all. Serendipity can be pretty fun sometimes.
Too many people are much too concerned with building boundaries and walls before they even know what they want, what would be good for them, or how to handle life. They read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” completely the opposite of what he intended.
Gen Z can’t handle shit because they never do anything, never take any risks. Miserable prudes.