Men, what does it mean to be happy?
According to Mammon and Moloch, it means making as much money and sleeping with as many high-value women as possible.
But in the Christian tradition, happiness comes from living in harmony with God, neighbor, nature, and yourself.
By that standard, Millennials might be the most disordered, and therefore miserable, postwar cohort.
Exhibit A: their astronomical depression rates.
While most Americans are feeling more depressed, we’ve seen the sharpest increase among those who were aged 16-25 as of 2017.
Those ages encompass the birth years 1992-2001, which is an almost perfect match for the generational reckoning favored at this blog.
It’s not an accident that the first spike in depression figures came in 2013-2014, when the average Millennial was leaving adolescence. After all, that cohort was raised by television – and then the internet – to believe they could achieve any dream they set their hearts on. And what’s more, they deserved to.
What Millennials found instead when they entered the real world was that they had the same personal limitations as every prior generation – if not more.
But a steady diet of “You can be anything you want!” hobbled their ability to adapt to adult life.
Check out any post-Ground Zero (which also coincides with Millennials’ formative years) kids’ show, and you’ll notice a steady and unsubtle drum beat of “Kids are savvier and more imaginative than adults. Your mom and dad work dull 9-5 jobs because they lack ambition, but you can be a movie star/rock god/millionaire!”
This is of course a vicious and cruel lie to tell children, because vanishingly few people have the talent and resources to realize all of their ambitions as they envision them.
Equality – another evil concept peddled to children – does not exist in any measurable form among individuals. Someone who’s 5′ 4″ is not going to excel in the NBA. If your IQ is 89, you will not be founding a successful tech startup.
Diversity is real, though not in the warped sense the Death Cult intends. There is a hierarchy of being in which every on the spectrum of ability is filled. This full expression of possibilities inherent in the human condition honors God and man.
Unfortunately, it’s the Cult’s definition of diversity that’s been drummed into Millennials – much to their detriment, especially of Millennial men.
Because those same children’s media that told Millennials they were omni-competent also preached that girls were even more capable, to the extreme that they didn’t need men.
“Girls are equal to boys, but better” was an insidious secular dogma that’s been drilled into Millennials’ heads all their lives.
Now we have a whole generation of men who’ve been raised to think they’re useless and unwanted.
Except to the degree they can work to provide tax revenue for Boomers and creature comforts to women.
The serious mental and larger societal problems we’re seeing stem from denying the natural order.
A generation is coming to grips with the fact that most of them cannot be full-time game streamers or glass ceiling-shattering female CEOs like their cartoons promised.
These internal contradictions have rendered a disturbing number of Millennials severely neurotic. Ven. Fulton Sheen compared neurosis to squeezing a tube of toothpaste with the cap still screwed on. The contents could burst out anywhere. Some medicate in various ways to deal with the pressure. Others let it erupt into frenzied attacks on the world they feel betrayed them.
That is a root cause of the havoc on campus and in urban hives we’ve seen erupt in recent years.
Note that Millennial depression took another dramatic upturn in 2016.
What’s the cure for these ills?
The return of two virtues: humility – by which one makes an accurate assessment of his ability and submits to the cosmic order accordingly, and wisdom – which tells us whether or not our ideas accord with reality.
And the surest and fastest way to grow in virtue is to petition God for it.
But since Millennials have been taught they don’t need to seek God since they are Him, too few are taking this route.
That’s where their Gen X and Gen Y older brothers are gonna have to step in.
We have a moral duty to show them the world wasn’t always this way. And just as important, that they are needed and loved.
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I am old enough to remember “Girls are equal to boys, but better” as a philosophy showing up in just about everything in the 1990s. The same thing with the faux-intellectual, yet blunt browbeating of the kind Captain Planet pioneered becoming more accepted in everything instead of being a punchline. This is probably one of the major reasons I was able to escape its grasp. If you experience changes as they happen you can question why they are necessary in the first place much more easily than if they are assumed normality.
Asking why the male is always the buttmonkey in all the commercials and in comedies (which adults of the time fully embraced) and getting no satisfying answers is what eventually led me to believe something about modernity was off. If you remember asking in the late ’90s/early ’00s what the difference between a hate crime and a normal crime was, and why the distinction matters in the first place, you were probably an outlier. Much like “progress” meaning that everything you loved had to be replaced with inferior garbage, at a certain point you had to realize how fake it all was. After that, you can begin asking what is real.
This is probably the highest hurdle the Millennials face. Millennials had NO competing and clashing worldview to battle this poison pumped into them. Every other generation fell into this state out of laziness and are only now attempting to walk it back or trying to justify further decay. To Millennials, all of this is Year One because it’s all they know. And they were taught that looking back or admitting wrong is a sin.
There are signs Gen Y is waking up, but Millennials are another problem entirely. They’re the perfected psyop generation Baby Boomers had been trying to produce for three generations in a row (the first two were failures for opposite reasons), raised on unreality, and now they are nearing the age where they must either reject this path or be destroyed by it. They must do the one thing they were programmed not to do.
Pray for them. They have the toughest challenges ahead to face.
So it was the cuckmercials that gave you your first taste of the red pill. Fascinating …
Once you realize that not only do they not have answers to your questions, but they don’t even think about the questions themselves, it tends to throw anything in doubt.
Older Christians have a lot of blame in this, too. I am constantly amazed at how much the Boomers don’t know about their own faith, and they actually went to Catholic schools.
Reason #4,567,890 to home school
A common trope I’ve observed amongst millennial leftist men, whether gay or straight, is their obsession with “strong female leads.”
They’ll apply the Bechdel test, analyze her clothing, scrutinize the level of which she doesn’t need no man.
“Likability” becomes a far-right dog whistle.
It’s a form of self-hatred.
I’m not even sure it’s just leftist ones. Consider how much pushback PulpRev had out of the gate because the women weren’t Sarah Connor or Ellen Ripley. Many on the right have a need to see women with “agency” in their stories, except their examples are 20 years older. Because of course they are.
Let’s call it what it is. Far too many men, regardless of political affiliation, were conditioned by feminist agitprop, herbivore anime, and Croftian vidya protags to worship the idea of women.