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It's the nature of teenagers to be cynical and dislike anything people older than them do. There's nothing noteworthy about it.

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Shallow trope. PAst computer revolutions have involved teenagers enthusiastically greeting videogames, personal computers and so on and admiring the people who designed and built them.

john carmack is my spirit animal

I never said that teens are idiots. I said they are rebels.

20 years ago being a rebel meant having a GMail account instead of a hotmail or aol account.

Today it means not having a GMail account.

I didn't say you did. Teens are natural rebels, but they don't reflexively rebel against anything, they have preferences and will enthusiastically get behind things they like. People are not one dimensional, they can seek novelty for orthogonal reasons to any rebellion they might have going on.

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