Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to stop?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/22/generation-x-heavy-drinkers-will-anything-persuade-us-to-stop

by isaacfrond • 5 years ago

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coldtea3• 5 years ago

Will anything ever persuade us to stop?

Improvements in society, job prospects, meaning of life, and community?

(In other words, don't hold your breath)

quaintdev• 5 years ago

I read somewhere that if alcohol was invented today it would not be approved for drinking.

I wonder what other things we are doing today that future generation will realise that was bad idea. I think social media will make that list.

mytailorisrich• 5 years ago

Alcohol is not a bad idea (and is something that occurs naturally and that we and some animals have 'discovered'). Too much alcohol is a bad idea.

What the article highlights is not Gen X, but how things have 'regressed' since then. I purposely say 'regress' because I think Gen X, and I'm one of them, was the last free and easy-going generation.

uniqueid2• 5 years ago

I personally eat meat, but I suspect very few people will a century from now - not meat from a slaughterhouse anyways.

No, we'll grow meat cheaply in labs, and the companies who produce it won't have much trouble blackening the reputation of real meat. Most people, even today, like to dwell neither on the death of the animals we eat, nor the cleanliness of the factory farms that provide us with our meat.

It probably will appall people in the future that we killed animals just to eat. They won't have first-hand experience of our time. They'll know, on a cerebral level, the technical reasons that fake meat was impractical, but, on an emotional level, our habits will disgust them.

coldtea3• 5 years ago

I read somewhere that if alcohol was invented today it would not be approved for drinking.

This mostly points to the lack of freedom in the over-regulated 21st century state...

richliss• 5 years ago

Stopping reading The Guardian will probably help a bit.

Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to stop?

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