AuroRaman
Chris Armstrong
Displaying and talking about emotions is not the same as being emotionally intelligent. The self-awareness of one's emotions and their impact on you/others doesn't automatically correlate to displays of emotion and torrents of babble just about them. It can, in fact, be an indicator of a different type of emotional lack of intelligence compared to that manifested more often in previous generations.
All of that is true up to the last part. If we didn’t see a progressive rise in emotional intelligence throughout history, then it would be a large contributor to mankind not existing anymore on a hyperbolic level. On a base level, Gen Z (of which I am not a part of) have consistently shown they are aware of and taking ownership of their own emotions and how it impacts others around them and the wider world. My generation downwards just gets inanely upset by them wanting to be referred to as ‘them’ and so on and so forth.
On point, Dele has clearly taken a big step forwards in ownership of his actions guided by trauma and addiction and had probably been fully honest with himself for the first time in his life. It’s an admirable path he’s taking to talk openly about this to help himself and others.