👾Everyone keeps saying Gen Z has “Zed’d out.” As if they’re exhibiting some mass dissociat

👾Everyone keeps saying Gen Z has “Zed’d out.” As if they’re exhibiting some mass dissociative fugue.
Cute, but clinically unserious.

Gen Z isn’t distracted — they’re running a parallel executive-function OS with dynamic load-balancing.
Older generations still cling to the cathedral model of attention — one entrance, no talking, don’t touch the stained glass.
Meanwhile Gen Z is operating on distributed cognitive shards, switching tasks the way a high-frequency trader switches positions: impulsively, intuitively, and with a complete disregard for risk profiling.

Honestly? Their neural architecture has undergone adaptive neuroplastic overclocking.
What looks like “zoning out” is really contextual re-indexing of stimuli — or as a Gen-Xer like me would put it:
they’re vibing through the slow apocalypse like it’s an early-access survival sandbox.

Philosophically, they’re little Deleuzian nomads — surfing flows, dissolving hierarchies, rejecting the Grand Narrative in favor of whatever’s trending on TikTok for nine minutes.
Clinically, they’re deploying micro-doses of dissociation as a coping strategy, and honestly? Same.

They’re not apathetic.
They’re running bedroom micro-enterprises, forging careers through intrinsic motivic reinforcement, and monetizing identity layers the way previous generations monetized… well, debt.

They don’t check out.
They simply refuse to check into institutional frameworks suffering from existential decay, bureaucratic hypoxia, and a severe case of epistemic osteoporosis.

Because when you inherit a burning house, you don’t adjust the Feng shui.
You build a new structure — preferably in a liminal zone with soft lighting — and you absolutely do not leave a forwarding address to the smoldering remains.

Respect to the Z’ers! But, even saying that, they will still think me one of the “Chaos Cousins”! As one, I at least hope, was calling me affectionately the other day…

Scott - G