I stumbled upon this on one of my favorite websites, Ted.Com. This comes at a very apt time: we're stuck in quite a fierce debate about "what defines the youth culture - if it exists?" in the office. Perhaps, we should start with the language.
This is nothing new - and not nuclear science.
But these symbols are actually symptomatic of how things have dramatically shifted and changed. We cannot ensnare anymore with traditional thinking and thoughts the young - the "generation-M" ("M" for millenial, "M" for mobile, "M" for "me", and for whatever else "M" is supposed to stand for). We certainly will not understand them by imposing on them our own thoughtpatterns - woven by our parents and the traditions and values that they adhered and that were imposed on us. And we certainly cannot just by being behind a desk, staring at a screen full of numbers and research materials.
All we can do is, watch. Perhaps in awe.
And in humility.
That they are different.
And that they are not "mini-me's" and "copies" - or even "analogues" - of us.
This is nothing new - and not nuclear science.
But these symbols are actually symptomatic of how things have dramatically shifted and changed. We cannot ensnare anymore with traditional thinking and thoughts the young - the "generation-M" ("M" for millenial, "M" for mobile, "M" for "me", and for whatever else "M" is supposed to stand for). We certainly will not understand them by imposing on them our own thoughtpatterns - woven by our parents and the traditions and values that they adhered and that were imposed on us. And we certainly cannot just by being behind a desk, staring at a screen full of numbers and research materials.
All we can do is, watch. Perhaps in awe.
And in humility.
That they are different.
And that they are not "mini-me's" and "copies" - or even "analogues" - of us.
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