The only problem that can’t be solved by adding a layer of abstraction - too many layers of abstraction.

But why though?

To upset you, personally.

Very well said.

The attitude you are referring to goes hand-in-hand with Christian Dominionism. It really starts getting scary when you realize how many of the American oligarchs ascribe to this philosophy. Erik Prince and Betsy DeVos are two prominent examples but it’s everywhere in the GOP.

No need to apologize to me, I’m not the one making a fool out of myself.

Educated indeed. Lmao.

There are, sure. And you are going to cherry-pick the ones that allow you to feel a smug and very much unearned sense of superiority.

lol it’s really not, at all. every generation tells themselves this and it’s always bullshit.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

• Attributed to Socrates, ~400 BC

Computers, math, cooking, cleaning, exercise, eating properly.

It’s just another in a long list of things that some grown-ass adults act like is somehow beyond them because that’s easier than trying.

Definitely not unique to any generation.