The greatest generation is defined as the people who lived through the World War II era, and generation z, the people born into advancing technology. It may be thought that the two generations have nothing in common, but both are faced with many serious issues. Though the generations may have similarities, they have completely opposite causes. The greatest generation is full of people living with depression, alcohol abuse, people based on societal approval and anxiety but can the issues baby boomers have be paralleled with those of Generation Z?
There are many causes of depression for all people. Both generations being discussed are full of people who have mental issues that are caused by paralyzing depression. According to cdc.gov, the average …show more content…
Baby boomers are recorded to have used alcohol all through their lives, and generation z has a spike in the use as they get to be ‘adults’ (Drug Abuse). Even though both generations are shown to use and abuse alcohol, they do not do it for the same reason. “One day Cynthia came home to find Louie gripping a squalling Cissy...Appalled at himself, he went on bender after bender” (Hillenbrand 367). After the war, baby boomers still held the terrifying memories of the torturous camps and were unable to let them go, so most of them, turned to alcohol. Alcohol is a hallucinogen and can make the user unaware of the situations they are in. In the case of one POW, he used alcohol, and unknowingly strangled both his wife and daughter(not to death thankfully) and scared his family so badly, his wife filed for a divorce. This just made him want to drink more and more though. Generation z on the other hand, uses alcohol to get drunk with friends at a party, feel cool or to forget about their bad day they hope ends forever. Certainly, each generation has been shown to have some reasons to drink, but how well do they do as a whole when presented with …show more content…
Seeing a large group of people doing one thing can alter a person's’ perspective of right versus wrong, and ruin a whole population. Social approval for generation zers today is mainly caused by their connection to technology and social media influence. Every new fad is shared across the world and everyone wants what he, she or all of them have; but back in the greatest generation, not one of these was the issue. It has been recorded, from a young teenage girl in Germany by the name of Melita Maschmann, “the horror it inspired in me almost imperceptibly spiced with an intoxicating joy...I was overcome with a burning desire to belong to the people for whom it was a matter of life and death” (Freeman 33). The hundreds of thousands of people cheering for Hitler convinced people that what he was leading was what they wanted to be a part of. Even knowing that what Hitler wanted to do to an entire population of people, others followed him in either fear for their life, or in aspiration to be just like him. In either generation you can see that every person is faced with many decisions to try and be who their society wants them to be, causing a lot of
There are many causes of depression for all people. Both generations being discussed are full of people who have mental issues that are caused by paralyzing depression. According to cdc.gov, the average …show more content…
Baby boomers are recorded to have used alcohol all through their lives, and generation z has a spike in the use as they get to be ‘adults’ (Drug Abuse). Even though both generations are shown to use and abuse alcohol, they do not do it for the same reason. “One day Cynthia came home to find Louie gripping a squalling Cissy...Appalled at himself, he went on bender after bender” (Hillenbrand 367). After the war, baby boomers still held the terrifying memories of the torturous camps and were unable to let them go, so most of them, turned to alcohol. Alcohol is a hallucinogen and can make the user unaware of the situations they are in. In the case of one POW, he used alcohol, and unknowingly strangled both his wife and daughter(not to death thankfully) and scared his family so badly, his wife filed for a divorce. This just made him want to drink more and more though. Generation z on the other hand, uses alcohol to get drunk with friends at a party, feel cool or to forget about their bad day they hope ends forever. Certainly, each generation has been shown to have some reasons to drink, but how well do they do as a whole when presented with …show more content…
Seeing a large group of people doing one thing can alter a person's’ perspective of right versus wrong, and ruin a whole population. Social approval for generation zers today is mainly caused by their connection to technology and social media influence. Every new fad is shared across the world and everyone wants what he, she or all of them have; but back in the greatest generation, not one of these was the issue. It has been recorded, from a young teenage girl in Germany by the name of Melita Maschmann, “the horror it inspired in me almost imperceptibly spiced with an intoxicating joy...I was overcome with a burning desire to belong to the people for whom it was a matter of life and death” (Freeman 33). The hundreds of thousands of people cheering for Hitler convinced people that what he was leading was what they wanted to be a part of. Even knowing that what Hitler wanted to do to an entire population of people, others followed him in either fear for their life, or in aspiration to be just like him. In either generation you can see that every person is faced with many decisions to try and be who their society wants them to be, causing a lot of