‘Woking Dead’ Author: Gen Z Struggling to Be ‘Authentically Human’ amid Me Too, Lockdowns, Digital Overload

A.J. Rice, president of Publius PR and author of The Woking Dead: How Society’s Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture, said on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that Generation Z — commonly known as zoomers — are having their human authenticity undermined by a combination of the “Me Too” campaign, lockdowns ostensibly issued to reduce coronavirus transmission, and excessive involvement in the digital world.

“The Me Too movement is one of these sort of cultural revolutions,” Rice stated. He warned of interpersonal skills being eroded by manufactured misunderstandings sowed between men and women via the “Me Too” narrative and displacement of face-to-face, in-person communication via inferior technological substitute mediums.

He remarked, “The younger generation … really cannot communicate with each other, and they already were bad at it. They’re always on their phones.”

Lockdowns and the “Me Too” campaign mutually reinforce a broader corrosion of relatability between people, Rice observed, noting the former’s forced reduction of socialization and the latter’s sowing of distrust between the sexes.

“The Me Too movement [is] scaring men and women from talking to each other,” he stated.- READ MORE