I must have missed that page in any college catalog I ever thumbed through. Then again, I predate this increasingly baffling Gen Z by a few dinosaur evolutions…

Generation Z, also called Gen Z, zoomers, iGeneration, centennials, post-millennials, or Homelanders, term used to describe Americans born during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Some sources give the specific year range of 1997–2012, although the years spanned are sometimes contested or debated because generations and their zeitgeists are difficult to delineate.

…and am increasingly grateful I do. I can imagine their zeitgeists being “difficult to delineate” because, going strictly by definition, they are practically non-existent. For the record, “Zeitgeist” is defined as:

: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

This is a rudderless generation without firm foundations in anything but the next techie thing and maintaining their egocentric balance at all costs.

Consider the self-absorbed, soulless group of heathens who answered this poll. I’m pretty sure they will have to strike “moral” from the conversation when discussing this group, if, perchance it surfaced at all. What exactly goes into those carefully considered plans for matriculating at a specific institution again?

Gen Z is re-thinking college and career plans in post-Roe America: ‘I want to leave the country’

…Of those planning to enroll in an undergraduate program sometime in the next 12 months, 39% said that the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will affect their decision to attend college in a particular state. That’s according to a BestColleges survey of 1,000 current and prospective undergraduate and graduate students conducted in July.

Similarly, 43% of current undergrads said that the overturning of Roe v. Wade has led them to question whether they want to remain in the state where they are attending college or transfer elsewhere.

What an absolutely gobsmacking paragraph! I already have a fairly low opinion of their smugly over-educated/under-smart intellectual acumen. Gen Z is doing nothing to change that, nor convince me my tax dollars paying for that squandered college tuition is a worthy sacrifice.

Dang if the article doesn’t pile the pathos on. They quote extensively from an interview with a 21-year-old activist from South Dakota, who says…

…Confusion and fear on campus: ‘It’s a really scary time’

…”I want to leave the country.”

…when she graduates in 2024 because, again, it’s a really scary time “to live here.” Little girl – go. PLEASE. Perhaps you will find out (and my guess is rapidly considering the current climate) that this is the least scary place on EARTH. Maybe you’ll even come to your over-reactive senses with less than a Brittney Griner reality check.

The article daubs on lots of “second class citizen” moanings and more “so frightened” and yet another round of plaintive…

‘Do I even want to stay in the U.S.?’

…staging it boldly in the sub-headline for another section. Good gravy goodness, the caterwauling.

Curiously, some students are objecting on – the irony is killing me – “ethical grounds.”

…Kathleen Moore, the founder of Vox Cambridge College Consulting LLC, says one of her advisees, a soccer player, recently turned down an athletic scholarship to attend a competitive school in South Carolina, citing legislators’ attempts to pass more restrictive abortion laws in the state.

“He told me he wouldn’t consider going to school there on ethical grounds,” Moore tells CNBC Make It. “It’s not a decision students are taking lightly.”

They wouldn’t know an “ethic” if they stepped in it and had to hose off their shoes. I find it so hard to believe that this is happening, but I know I shouldn’t be surprised in the least.

…Prior to the court’s ruling in June, she says students and their families “rarely” wanted to discuss what a school’s stance was on reproductive rights was, or abortion access in the state.

Now, however, “it’s dominating the conversation,” Moore says.

“They want to know what the law is in the states they are applying, what statements, if any, school leaders have made on reproductive rights, and how accessible reproductive health care is near campus,” she says. “These are all questions hardly anyone asked me before the overturn of Roe …. It’s a huge change.”

Students and their families. Good grief. That’s the problem right there. What in the Sam Hell are parents doing enabling this madness? Where, how, and why has the focus shifted from the best education offered toward a career goal to “making sure there’s a get-out-of-pregnancy-jail-FREE card” – for what could be upwards of a quarter million dollars in student debt to boot?

It does make sense. Perfect sense. To a generation and the parents who raised them to milk victimhood, worship grievance, demand/receive rewards because someone else had them, raised keeping-up-with-the-Joneses to life pursuit, destroyed human interaction by allowing the complete substitution of electronics for experiences, put no limits on behavior or enabled any ability to deal with frustration – a whole emotionally arrested group who was never allowed to experience failure or loss. Nor experience the growth and maturity that comes from overcoming true obstacles in life. I have found something as simple as saying “thanks” in return for a good deed done is pretty foreign to this camp.

Leadership…what is it? So many have never developed a work ethic, and have no idea what watching out for a team member means in either sacrifice or empathy.

They don’t have that depth in their relationships because they do not have that depth in themselves.

This is also why their concept is “abortion” and not the CONCEPT/conception of a child. Their “thing” versus a “SOMEthing” who is a “someONE.” They are unprepared for that. It’s easier for shallow people to argue “things” in the ether to make them sound as if they truly matter.

I couldn’t begin to tell you what the fix is, but part of the answer must be saying, “No” to the tantrums and demands. This would be a really good place to start for those parents.

But then, those parents aren’t reading this. They’re the enablers.

More’s the pity.