Maybe This Is the Best Generation Yet
Coolest Christmas tree I ever saw
Christmas of 2023, I woke up in a loft somewhere in Singapore, hurried downstairs to get to the hotel’s inclusive breakfast because that’s what you do when you are going to be spending 3 weeks in a country so expensive your bank would think your card has been stolen.
Anyway, I got there just in time, grabbed some toast and I had to watch a robot make me an omelette. I don’t even like omelettes if i’m being honest…but this robot had all my attention.
Meet Ausca, the omelette maker
Most people are quick to say, “Blah blah blah…. is a hill I’m willing to die on.”
And I respect that , I really do… because I honestly struggle to think of any opinion I feel so strongly about that I’d be willing to die for. God forbid (In my African Mother’s voice).
I know it’s just an expression, but still… it feels a little too serious for me. Basically, I really love my life… like, a lotttt.
So dying for an opinion? A little too extreme, even if it’s just a figure of speech.
I don’t even remember the context for this photo tbh but does this guy seem like he’d die for an opinion?
Maybe a hill I’m willing to lose my hairline on, or twist a finger at best.
And one such opinion I could say that for is this:
This generation is the best time to be born.
The next best time is the future generation.
Now before you say anything, walk with me for a bit….
Do you know how crazy it is that if I gave an iPhone to Einstein,
he’d probably struggle to take a screenshot?
Or that if Leonardo da Vinci and I sat down today, I could produce the Mona Lisa faster than him… with Photoshop… on my phone?
The more I think about it, the more I realize how blessed I am to be born in a generation where I don’t have to go to war just because the leader of my tribe or nation had a disagreement with another leader somewhere.
Imagine walking for days, sometimes weeks you know…. just to go fight another group of people.
No GPS, no maps, just vibes. You could be walking in the wrong direction the whole time and have no clue.
Yeah this would help
And the worst part?
You probably don’t even care about whatever started the war. You’re only there because you were born in the wrong generation.
Imagine dying in a war like this, pathetic
Okay, maybe I’m going a little too far back. Let’s move forward a bit.
Say I was born just a few decades earlier…. like if I was 20 years old in 1997.
Do you know what the most impressive piece of youth technology was back then?
MP3.
This robot was frying and flipping eggs and I’m supposed to be excited about a Freaking MP3 player.
Now imagine I was 20 years old in 2007.
The first iPhone had just dropped.
And if you’re too young to understand how shitty that first iPhone was…
Even Steve Jobs doesn’t seem very proud…does he?
It had no App Store.
Yeah, an iPhone… with no App Store.
This robot is making me an omelette and that iPhone had no app store.
At this point, if you can think of a better generation than now, drop it in the comments and explain why.
Let’s see if my finger really needs to be twisted.
If you’ve read all the way to this point, you’re far too kind. You could’ve been reading anything else in the world, but you chose this… and I truly appreciate that.
See you again in a bit.