03-06-2022, 10:03 PM
For as much as millennials like to bitch about boomers, the woke ones certainly try very hard to emulate them. It's debatable whether the majority of millennials could be considered woke, but whether they're a conventional majority of a very loud, influential minority, there are a lot of them and, for better or for worse, we need to deal with them.
Their entire movement seems like a cheap reenactment of the Consciousness Awakening, stripped of its creativity and genuine non-conformity
- protest exactly the same causes their parents told them to (women's rights, environmentalism, equality, etc)
- rather than focusing on new, original content, they rehash remakes of tried and true franchises, just with more women and black people
- preach about "having your voice heard"...only to turn around and try to micro manage your tone, demeanor and choice of words
- "defund the police"...and then trying desperately to police other people themselves whenever given the opportunity
- fixating on "specialness" and "diversity", while displaying conformity in most areas of life
- during the 60s and 70s, drugs and sexual exploration were about discovery, open mindedness, becoming aware of repressed desires. nowadays, it's mostly associated with contempt for the other gender and a generalized, self-hating desire for the society we grew up in to go up in flames.
Speaking as a millennial from the other end, I never wanted another awakening. Frankly, I think "creativity" is extremely overrated at the societal level, at least in the sense of it not being the main thing we need right now, but while I have no desire to do a bunch of drugs, go to a music festival or go have a bunch of sex with flamboyantly dressed dandies, I can at least understand the historical context that gave the previous awakening a bit more historical legitimacy.
In 2022....no! We are in the midst of a virus, living through a crippling recession with shortages, infrastructure breakdown and high wealth inequality and on the brink of potential nuclear war. This isn't the time to "find yourself", it isn't the time to debate the nuances or just what does or does not constitute "gender-biased language", and it sure as hell isn't the time to go dancing around in vagina hats and expecting to be taken seriously.
It's time to focus on solving problems.
Their entire movement seems like a cheap reenactment of the Consciousness Awakening, stripped of its creativity and genuine non-conformity
- protest exactly the same causes their parents told them to (women's rights, environmentalism, equality, etc)
- rather than focusing on new, original content, they rehash remakes of tried and true franchises, just with more women and black people
- preach about "having your voice heard"...only to turn around and try to micro manage your tone, demeanor and choice of words
- "defund the police"...and then trying desperately to police other people themselves whenever given the opportunity
- fixating on "specialness" and "diversity", while displaying conformity in most areas of life
- during the 60s and 70s, drugs and sexual exploration were about discovery, open mindedness, becoming aware of repressed desires. nowadays, it's mostly associated with contempt for the other gender and a generalized, self-hating desire for the society we grew up in to go up in flames.
Speaking as a millennial from the other end, I never wanted another awakening. Frankly, I think "creativity" is extremely overrated at the societal level, at least in the sense of it not being the main thing we need right now, but while I have no desire to do a bunch of drugs, go to a music festival or go have a bunch of sex with flamboyantly dressed dandies, I can at least understand the historical context that gave the previous awakening a bit more historical legitimacy.
In 2022....no! We are in the midst of a virus, living through a crippling recession with shortages, infrastructure breakdown and high wealth inequality and on the brink of potential nuclear war. This isn't the time to "find yourself", it isn't the time to debate the nuances or just what does or does not constitute "gender-biased language", and it sure as hell isn't the time to go dancing around in vagina hats and expecting to be taken seriously.
It's time to focus on solving problems.
ammosexual
reluctant millennial
reluctant millennial