I’ve known that Gen Z is magic for a long time. Before yesterday, I could have told you that Gen Z has wisdom, brilliance, playfulness, and a commitment to envision and enact a better world. I could have said any of that.
But as of yesterday afternoon, I learned that Gen Z is magic in ways that are comedically precise.
When I was a kid, my friends and I used to play the game, “Guess Who?” Maybe you’ll also remember it from your childhood or from when your own kids were young. You each have a board and you have to ask questions to discover which card — i.e. which person — the other player has.
We would ask things like, “Does your person have a mustache?” or “Is your person wearing a hat?”
Yesterday, I watched two of my most beloved Gen Z-ers play this game with questions like this:
“Does your person run a nonprofit?”
“Would your person get high at a natural history museum?”
“Is your person a member of the AARP?”
“Would you say your person isn’t in therapy right now, but is generally supportive of it?”
And they got the right answers again, and again, and again! How did they do that?
I’m telling you. They’re magic.
–Renee Roederer
Smuggling Grace 