Tag: millennials

Meditations on millennials (and gen. z)

Why are today’s teens putting off sex, driving, dating and drinking? Even though I’m on the ‘right’, I’m not so quick to beat-up on millennials (and the generation that follows them, dubbed by some as ‘Generation Z’). Millennials were dealt a bad hand: two recessions which included financial crisis, a scarcity of good-paying jobs, expensive… Continue reading Meditations on millennials (and gen. z)

In Defense of Millennials, Part 2

If you’re on the ‘right’, it’s temping to bash millennials, but it’s worth noting that alt-right millennials, thanks to postings on 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter, swayed voters and the ‘national dialogue’ and helped put Trump in office. Although millennials supported Hillary by a much larger margin than Trump (55% vs. 38%), Trump’s millennial base was… Continue reading In Defense of Millennials, Part 2

Era of the Introvert, and the demise of ‘Careerism’

Over and over again, articles about following themes themes or topics, go viral: -Being alone, the benefits of being alone, etc. -Introversion, introverts -Coping with being ‘average’, being ‘boring’, etc. Today’s viral article: How being alone may be the key to rest Could it be that what we really want, in order to rest, is… Continue reading Era of the Introvert, and the demise of ‘Careerism’

In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life (analysis)

An article on Dose.com, In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life, is going viral: There is nothing wrong with living a comfortable and unadventurous life. I know. This is the internet. The odds are good you just spent five minutes watching someone do something incredible. After watching that video, you probably thought to yourself, “Wow.… Continue reading In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life (analysis)

Intellectualism, Individualism, and Wealth, Part 4 (philosophy of millennials)

Errata: yesterday’s article, Alt-Right: Classifications and Significance, described neocons as apologetically anti-populist, when it should have been unapologetically anti-populist. Continuing on the series on Intellectualism, Individualism, and Wealth… The Millennial Mindset, Part 2: Philosophy and Wealth describes the underlying philosophy of most millennials as rationalist and valuing of authenticity. But another label could be deontological.… Continue reading Intellectualism, Individualism, and Wealth, Part 4 (philosophy of millennials)

Adulting

Adulting is now a ‘thing’: Adulting (v): to do grown up things and hold responsibilities such as, a 9-5 job, a mortgage/rent, a car payment, or anything else that makes one think of grown ups. Used in a sentence: Jane is adulting quite well today as she is on time for work promptly at 8am… Continue reading Adulting

Millennials and Intellectualism Culture, Part 2

Part 1 Continuing on the article… No. 1: read a fucking book… No. 2: learn something… No. 3: stop buying so much shit…. Everything he’s listing that he wishes were happening is already happening, at least as I can perceive based on my own observations in the field. As further evidence of how America is… Continue reading Millennials and Intellectualism Culture, Part 2

The Daily View: Prescriptivism , Populism, and Why Democracy Doesn’t Work

In earlier posts I explore the possibility millennials are smarter and less impressionable than earlier generations. Some on the left argue millennials are sloppy at grammar and are careless, but there is an abundance of evidence to the contrary. For example on Reddit this user got rebuked in the comments for his ‘descriptive’ approach to… Continue reading The Daily View: Prescriptivism , Populism, and Why Democracy Doesn’t Work