Problem-posing education does not and cannot serve the interests of the oppressor. No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.
Implicit in the banking concept [of education] is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others…In this view, the person is not a conscious being (corpo consciente); he or she is rather the possessor of a consciousness: an empty “mind” passively open to the reception of deposits of reality from the world outside.
https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf
GenZ are poorly socialized, but otherwise cool and fun to associate with. The more time they spend with Millennials, the more they even out and develop as people. Millennials were the same way, back in high school / early college. Coming out of the suburbs, escaping other clueless dorks who aren't used to operating outside a niche, and then ingesting a bigger slice of the world matures you.
that's just transitioning from a teenager into a young adult
Right. There's nothing magical about Gen Z, in that regard.
That's the problem and ironically it won't change the more they leave home. Social media and online interactions, while first beginning with millennials, only became this monolithic, everpresent entity under Gen Z. Millenials may have been fucking online nerds but they had to leave the computer at home. Phones and texting at least required some interaction before you could talk to people.
But someone in Gen Z grew up in an era in which they could access whatever niche social phenomena they could want at any point in time from any point in place. Their entire idea of social life from birth was social media to a large extent. I'm sure they can change in some ways but they have less of a reason to considering this is what they've always done.
Maybe they'll be cool in 10 years, doesn't change that they suck to interact with now.