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Mr Chad Says...

When you watch Tiktok and social media videos of Gen Z and some later millennials talking about the ‘olden days’ of the 1980’s and 90’s – they often sneer at what they see as backwards ways of doing things compared to the ‘modern’ and ‘smart’ way things are done nowadays.

However, it makes me sad that they’ve been sold a lie, convinced and conditioned to believe that the new ways of doing things are so much more advanced. Sure, they so often ridicule us for our lack of understanding of how hard things are for them now – and some of that is true, certainly for property purchase prices in many areas. Again, social media videos are chock full of presentations of how cheap everything was in the 1980’s and 90’s – as if they haven’t heard of inflation.

The biggest crime against their generation hasn’t even come to pass yet, but it probably will. Speak to anyone over the age of 45 about the best time of their lives – the most exciting part – and guess what. It’s mainly when they were under 30. They went to pubs at 18, maybe sneaked in a little younger, and had wild nights after the pubs closed in nightclubs listening to amazing music with lyrics that meant something. They danced to dance music with rhythm, and met new people everywhere they went. But that’s all gone now…

The younger generation have been lied to that it’s better to be alone.

• Work from home on your own. You don’t need to leave your house to go to an office full of people, and sit on a bus or train full of people.
• Don’t go out and enjoy an evening meeting people in a pub, as part of a community. Instead – stay in, drink alcohol at home because it’s cheaper. Go to a pub at 11pm instead when you’re already drunk.
• Don’t bother going shopping – get it delivered to your front door. Save you meeting people on the street, bumping into an old friend in a supermarket aisle.
• Going to the supermarket anyway? Do self service so you don’t have any interaction with any staff, or any other human being whatsoever.
• Don’t bother meeting people in person, and all that bothersome going outside stuff – why not just do an online zoom call, or facetime instead.
• Don’t bother phoning someone for a chat – send them a text, or an email. It’s so much more efficient not bothering with all that social interaction and niceties.
• Fancy a coffee? Drive up to a drive thru window and pay £5 for a latte and drink it in your car on your own.
• Don’t bother going to the cinema, and being able to appreciate a blockbuster in the biggest screen with friends and popcorn and a crowd of people laughing, crying at the same bits you are. And walking out at the end, making emotional eye contact with strangers who know exactly how you’re feeling. Why do that when you can download to your iPhone and watch it on the loo on your own.
• Don’t ever say what you really think – you may hurt someone’s feelings. Make sure anything you put out there online is in line with what’s allowed, otherwise you could get cancelled. If you get cancelled, you’re done for. The real world had been swapped for a virtual world, one that someone else decides if you can have or not.
• Why go out to eat at a restaurant when for the same money you can stay at home and have a moped deliver to your sofa. You even order on an app so you don’t need all that pesky conversation.
• Interested in the world at large? Excellent. You don’t need to go there at all – just sit on your sofa and be told what’s right and wrong from a stranger, who may actually be an AI bot. Get heated up about an issue that you know nothing about, and will never investigate properly – you can watch a few TikTok’s and know everything you need to about wars, disputed land and religions. You’re an expert now.
• Don’t worry about reading proper books nowadays – some influencer will make a 30 second video of the highlights of Shakespeare, although likely chastise you for being interested in outdated concepts, and not being progressive and inclusive.

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