In approaching the subject expressed in the title, and for whatever it's worth, this article is not devoid of any so-called bias, primarily due to my age; and at the same time, it's precisely my age which puts me in the detached position of an outsider in judging the so-called next generation. Just like the old song goes: I am too old to rock'n'roll, but I am indeed too young to die, or what some folks would describe as middle-aged. The problem with my so-called middle age is that it implies that I am somewhere at the midpoint between birth and death, a fact whose truth I have no way of discerning, to be honest -- even if we're to discount an accident or some sudden illness, I still have no way of knowing whether I'll live to be seventy-six, a hundred or merely forty-two. That is for time to tell, and for it alone.
That is also why, when I look at my own generation or at the newer ones -- it's not that I find no sense whatsoever in labels such as "milennial", "zoomer" or "gen alpha"; these can be pinpointed to some degree to specific historical timeframes. But the problem with the definitions surrounding these timeframes is that they break at the seams, where you can't really tell whether a specific person fits into one group, the other or both. Thus, I will refer to the next generation as the "next" one, and I will let the reader decide which one's which based on their own common sense.
All that aside, the next generation is quite awesome. Not because they show quite a lot of potential -- all the young people do that, and if they don't, they're either not young or not people. But they are indeed awesome because they tend to exhibit a hell of a lot more realistic worldview than their parents, even despite all the ideological claptrap that they're being fed with; that's okay, all generations are fed one variation or another of the same claptrap. Only, say, if we're to take Eastern Europe as one personal example: my generation was educated by communists, and thus they have retained many of the traumas of those ages, despite no longer living in them; which is why this whole thing required another transitional turn to finally go to fucking dust. The fortunate consequence of this is that now I can talk to twenty-somethings as if they're actual people -- directly, without any pretenses that "we're all equal workers from the same multilaterally-developed crop" or anything like that. And all the same, when I look at it, that's still quite a problem with those of my own age, many of whom never quite managed to grow up, despite having at least one or two children themselves.
Still, just as things tend to go in ye life and society, this awesomeness did not come for free. In fact it came with quite a few troubles, which will most definitely pour over the next-next generation. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
The main problem with the youngsters is that... for the lack of a better description, I will say that they are mostly acultured. That is, they lack many of the references that would help them navigate the world of today and tomorrow more easily, if at all -- a consequence, no doubt, of the great education that they're receiving nowadays. They not only do not understand, say, the language of the nineteenth century, that would help them see the ever-revolving political wheel which began at the end of the one before it. They don't even have a second-hand reference to that, so that they no longer ask themselves, as my folks my own age used to, "la ce-mi servește mie radicalurili" -- to them, there are no radicaluri whatsoever. The concept itself is foreign to them; and this, I suppose, reduces the generation as a whole, if not all the individuals, to a sort of post-modern barbarians. Sad, I know, but perhaps not all that sad, given that, at least as far as I can see, that was the only way they could have given up the old metehne. Sure, a neo-something-or-the-other ideological thread survives in the new ones as it did in the old ones, which is why you have all these cryptocommunists arising all over the place in the West; but all the same, a neo-something-or-the-other feudalist thread survives since way before, so I wouldn't worry too much about all that.
The bittersweet side to this story is that, as usual, the young 'uns still have some time left to learn; and whatever lessons they'll skip, the ones after them will eventually pick up, for all the other lessons that they'll forget. Meanwhile, my generation is slowly getting too old for this world, so that in, say, a decade from now, no one will give a rat's ass what they think about things and matters and the likes. This would be such a tragedy if it weren't so very natural.