> In contrast with (my) generation, which had spent most of its time online learning to code so that it could add crude butterfly animations to the backgrounds of its weblogs
Patricia Lockwood sounds like she is praising her generation for being holier-than-thou and basically adding to the issue. There is no way this is just limited to the following generation. It's deeper than that and most likely something to do with the human condition.
It's probably more related to the geekier and/or generally more technically productive people that peopled the internet in the pre-smartphone age. It used to be that you had to learn and practice and exercise skills to become proficient to use the internet, now its basically as mindless as television for [probably] most people.
Patricia Lockwood sounds like she is praising her generation for being holier-than-thou and basically adding to the issue. There is no way this is just limited to the following generation. It's deeper than that and most likely something to do with the human condition.