He's all for bringing back shame for being stupid.

I'm with him. Letting people be willfully dumb hurts all of us.

I can’t even relate to the complacency they have. Like if I don’t know a word that I come across I absolutely MUST look it up or it will bother me all day.

Say it louder for the Neanderthals in the back

It's easier than ever to see at a glance which parts of the internet are inhabited primarily by young people. Terrible reading comprehension and spelling errors skyrocket in these spaces. I guess that's kind of a silver lining lol

this isn't new though, I remember kids bullying me in the 90s because I liked reading books during recess.

That man is correct with everything he says.

They cant even count money/change in highschool...its epidemic levels of stupid out there...

He’s not wrong.

I was obsessed with comics growing up. I wanted to illustrate. My parents weren't artists. I volunteered at the local art museum, got into a community after-school art internship, and even became the cartoonist for the school newspaper. I was the only AP art student my graduating year. I got into some top art schools and am opening a tattoo studio now. Please be curious and focus on your passion and motivate yourself to learn. ❤️

The line about the teenagers letting themselves be infantilized is so spot on.

It’s not the lack of intelligence that’s really the problem, teenagers are meant to be stupid as they fumble through adolescence into adulthood. It’s the lack of effort to actually make it through that transition and a passivity around learning that’s causing them to seem so…childish.

Social media is at play for sure. There was a narrative push after big tech took off in the mid 2010s that “doing” was better than learning. I’m all for challenging standard ways of doing things but I worry the pendulum swung too far to and now learning is seen as lame/loser behavior while just ignorantly plowing ahead is seen as bold and worthy of praise. It’s the whole “work fast and break things” mentality combined with algorithmic scorekeeping that creates a self-validating cycle.