The following report is by The Trends Journal:
Younger Americans are more eager to hit the sack than hit up clubs and bars in this post-COVID War world that has killed the human spirit and life on earth.
The Wall Street Journal noted last week that Generation Z, those 18 to 35 years old, have found comfort in avoiding the nightlife in favor of sleeping longer and staying home.
The paper, citing data from the American Time Use Survey data from RentCafe, said those in their 20s reported getting an average of nine hours and 28 minutes of sleep per night, which represents an 8 percent jump from 2010, when the age range pulled in eight hours and 47 minutes.
The WSJ also noted that these young people are going to bed earlier, at an average of 10:06 p.m., which is down from 10:18 p.m. last year.
One 19-year-old who lives in Berkeley, Calif., told the paper that she is usually in bed by 9 p.m. because “nothing good happens” after the hour. Another 25-year-old woman in Tulsa, Okla., told the paper that she passed up bar-hopping until the early hours in favor of seeing a jazz show at about 6 p.m. or grabbing cocktails at 5 p.m. She told the paper that the life change is saving her hundreds of dollars a month.
Businesses have noticed the trend and have been trying to accommodate their customers. The paper, citing Yelp reservations, said seatings between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. make up 31 percent of reservations, which is up from 17 percent in 2017—two years before the COVID outbreak.
TRENDPOST: One sleep specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital told the paper that while it is good that young people are focusing on healthy sleep patterns, “people are getting a little bit neurotic about it.” (See “COVID HAS PERMANENTLY NARROWED CONSUMERS’ CHOICES” 9 Jan 2024 and “AS FORECAST: AMERICANS’ PHYSICAL HEALTH DECLINES AFTER COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS” 19 Dec 2023.)
Neurotic is a good word considering that this generation has been told by the government and health “officials” that they were only safe at home for years during the COVID War. The message was: Stay home and pull the sheets over your head, there’s a virus that’s going to kill you and your grandmother.
Northwestern University research has found that Gen. Z has been “dually burdened by the increased economic uncertainty that often accompanies youth—did not recover with the rest of the population as the country emerged from the worst of the pandemic.”
The problem is not limited to the U.S. Since June 2020, more than a third of nightclubs have closed down in Britain.
“The COVID lockdowns only reinforced a kind of curfew existence among Generation Z. For young people coming of age today, there is no longer an expectation that socializing in clubs is an important rite of passage. The narrative that friendships, romances, and lasting memories can be forged in a heaving club is on the wane,” Spiked-Online noted.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This trend is definitely a strange paradox indeed. We’ve talked about previously in other articles that Gen-Z is immensely depressed and by and large consigned to giving up, mostly unable to afford a lot of different basic necessities. Therefore, unlike the previous generations, the typical Zoomer (depending on where they live and their financial capabilities) is packing it in much sooner, and sleeping longer than the minimum of seven to eight.
Sleep is good, yes, but too much is also not good. Moderation in everything. But, what this demonstrates is a population and a generation that has given up, and would rather just scroll on their phones and lay around all day.
There is a reason why both Old and Testaments warn you about too much sleep and what it means, and what will happen because of it.
[11] And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. [12] The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. [13] Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. [14] But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. [4] Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. [5] Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. [6] Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: [7] Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, [8] Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. [9] How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? [10] Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: [11] So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Romans 13:11-14; Proverbs 6:4-11
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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i feel as if its a spirit of antichrist that has come over a perverse generation making them so slothful to hinder their chance of salvation. I hope not but we are in God’s judgement.
Isaiah 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. [10] For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.