Gen Z (feat. Sam Hernandez and Anna Solomon)

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Generational differences emerge in subtle ways, but how do we identify these? And how does the new generation of youth culture Gen Z is defining differ from Ellie and David’s generation of millennials? Feeling a bit out of touch, Ellie and David interview Overthink production assistants Anna Solomon and Sam Hernandez to tell them all about Gen Z values.

Works Discussed

Jose Ortega y Gasset, El tema de nuestro tiempo
William Strauss and Neil Howe, Generations
William Strauss and Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning
Bobby Duffy, The Generation Myth
Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:08.6	And I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:10.2	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.0	The podcast were two friends, who are also professors, put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.6	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:30.1	Ellie, more than anybody else that I know, you are obsessed with Genzi.
0:36.3	And I want to know why, because you're obviously not one of them.
0:40.3	I'm not one of them. I am firmly a millennial, as are you. I think it's less about Gen Z as a
0:49.9	generation, although, you know, no shade to Gen Z. I think there's lots to say about like
0:54.0	why Gen Z is a super interesting generation. But I think for me, it's more about feeling for
0:59.8	the first time in my life that I am not on trend. I knew it. You're like, I'm really
1:08.1	interested in Gen C, but it has nothing to do with them. It's all about me.
1:15.5	No, it really has to do with an existential crisis. And it's not around aging because I still feel pretty young. Luckily, we're in a discipline where we're still among the youngest professors. But I think it has more to do with just the feeling of
1:31.2	not being on the pulse. I had this moment in, God, this must have been right after the vaccine.
1:38.0	So it was probably April or May, 2021. And I went to this flea market in Hollywood, the Melrose trading post. This flea market has
1:47.5	been around forever. You've mentioned that to me before. I probably recommended it to. It's somewhere
1:53.1	that I've been going to since high school. Oh, wow. And it just has a bunch of vintage clothes and
1:59.0	vintage furniture and stuff. And it's like a fun place to go if you're visiting L.A.
2:03.2	And so I went there May 2021 or something.
2:07.4	And for the first time ever, I felt like really out of place.
2:16.4	One of the reasons that I like the Fairfax trading or the Fairfax
2:19.5	flea market is what the real LA OG locals call it, but it's technically called Melrose
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