Does Gen Z Care So Little Because Millennials Care Too Much?

The roasting of earnest Millennials reflects an ancient, intergenerational war of feelings

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There’s a moment from college that I remember with mortifying clarity. It was 2002, and I was sitting in a classroom, midway through a course on memoir writing as a form of social justice. This entailed a lot of…