My generation drank to assuage self-loathing. Gen Z is spectacularly tough and ascetic | Zoe Williams
M.My first job out of college was (probably) as a receptionist at a good company with a lot of bad suits. But it didn’t matter because the only other receptionist who ever spoke to me was and she was great. She had a rogue child, and one day the police called and said that the child had been given a nickname for being a thug. “To his credit, he has no criminal record,” they said. she replied: “Well, give him a chance. He’s only 13.”
Her voice popped into my head the other day when I was worrying about my daughter. I found out how interested her daughter is in non-alcoholic drinks. Well, give her her a chance. she’s still 13 years old. But so are my nieces, they are older. My sister and I decided a while ago that this was our doing. They looked at us once, a million times to be exact, and decided Aperol Bounce wasn’t for them. And while I feel little parental guilt, I felt very sorry for the idea that I might have had too much fun and kept my kids away from alcohol.
The decline in alcohol consumption among 16- to 25-year-olds is striking. Festivals require non-alcoholic lagers to be ordered to cater to the new tier, which is very strange. If you’ve never tasted a regular lager, why not try a squash? Generation Z are more likely than any other age group to be abstainers. If they do drink, they start drinking at a later age than we do, and they drink less and less often. It’s not just the UK – it’s all over europe. Realistically, this could not have been caused by me and my sister.
Though depressing, the social media account is plausible. A time when everything is recorded and nothing is forgotten. Half the meaning of doing something is taking pictures of yourself doing it. What’s on the tour no longer stays on the tour. In fact, any minor incident during the tour can be burned into the retinas of future employers.
The impossibility of forgetting has entered their bloodstream, and now they think of their brains as data storage, from which if anything is lost, they lose their phones, accidentally It would be as catastrophic as wiping your hard drive with a hard drive. When some early adopter celibate 20-somethings were interviewed about their choices, a phrase came up over and over again. they wanted to remember the night before. It seemed a very alarming, very exaggerated statement. I can remember most things, but the things I can’t remember are remembered in a day and are gone forever after a week and a half. Moreover, not all of them yielded great results. Is it the end of the world when your best friend can’t decide between black and brown jackets and he doesn’t tell you that he loves you for an hour?
I remember all sorts of situations that would have been totally unbearable if I hadn’t had a few cans of Tennent when I was younger. Indeed, at a festival there is no place to hide other than an improperly pitched tent. Parties, in particular, a peculiar and exquisite awkwardness that feels so visible, so noticeable, so out of place, yet at the same time so irrelevant, so blurry, and utterly uninteresting. College is as bad as the party. Other than having to live there, it’s full of strangers, and I’m nervous about the performance. Your first job approach was as bad as college, but now you don’t know how faxes work and that’s all your business. It takes years to undo the curse of self-awareness. Have Gen Z found a way not to drink? Clearly they are not snowflakes – we are snowflakes. It is made of iron files.
Summarize this content to 100 words M.My first job out of college was (probably) as a receptionist at a good company with a lot of bad suits. But it didn’t matter because the only other receptionist who ever spoke to me was and she was great. She had a rogue child, and one day the police called and said that the child had been given a nickname for being a thug. “To his credit, he has no criminal record,” they said. she replied: “Well, give him a chance. He’s only 13.”Her voice popped into my head the other day when I was worrying about my daughter. I found out how interested her daughter is in non-alcoholic drinks. Well, give her her a chance. she’s still 13 years old. But so are my nieces, they are older. My sister and I decided a while ago that this was our doing. They looked at us once, a million times to be exact, and decided Aperol Bounce wasn’t for them. And while I feel little parental guilt, I felt very sorry for the idea that I might have had too much fun and kept my kids away from alcohol.The decline in alcohol consumption among 16- to 25-year-olds is striking. Festivals require non-alcoholic lagers to be ordered to cater to the new tier, which is very strange. If you’ve never tasted a regular lager, why not try a squash? Generation Z are more likely than any other age group to be abstainers. If they do drink, they start drinking at a later age than we do, and they drink less and less often. It’s not just the UK – it’s all over europe. Realistically, this could not have been caused by me and my sister.Though depressing, the social media account is plausible. A time when everything is recorded and nothing is forgotten. Half the meaning of doing something is taking pictures of yourself doing it. What’s on the tour no longer stays on the tour. In fact, any minor incident during the tour can be burned into the retinas of future employers.The impossibility of forgetting has entered their bloodstream, and now they think of their brains as data storage, from which if anything is lost, they lose their phones, accidentally It would be as catastrophic as wiping your hard drive with a hard drive. When some early adopter celibate 20-somethings were interviewed about their choices, a phrase came up over and over again. they wanted to remember the night before. It seemed a very alarming, very exaggerated statement. I can remember most things, but the things I can’t remember are remembered in a day and are gone forever after a week and a half. Moreover, not all of them yielded great results. Is it the end of the world when your best friend can’t decide between black and brown jackets and he doesn’t tell you that he loves you for an hour?I remember all sorts of situations that would have been totally unbearable if I hadn’t had a few cans of Tennent when I was younger. Indeed, at a festival there is no place to hide other than an improperly pitched tent. Parties, in particular, a peculiar and exquisite awkwardness that feels so visible, so noticeable, so out of place, yet at the same time so irrelevant, so blurry, and utterly uninteresting. College is as bad as the party. Other than having to live there, it’s full of strangers, and I’m nervous about the performance. Your first job approach was as bad as college, but now you don’t know how faxes work and that’s all your business. It takes years to undo the curse of self-awareness. Have Gen Z found a way not to drink? Clearly they are not snowflakes – we are snowflakes. It is made of iron files.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/20/my-generation-drank-to-quell-our-self-loathing-gen-z-is-admirably-tough-and-teetotal My generation drank to assuage self-loathing. Gen Z is spectacularly tough and ascetic | Zoe Williams