A valued reader writes in with a generation Y cautionary tale:
I wanted to share with you a tale of a real life classmate of mine. We’ll call him Pat.
Pat was a member of Gen Y. We met in the early 2010s during our time in law school. We bonded over the popular entertainment at the time like South Park, Game of Thrones and the Colbert Report. Pat always had a Simpsons, Star Wars or Trek meme up his sleeve for any given occasion.
Pat, like his Gen Y contemporaries was an atheist. He happened to share the same leftward political leanings of his girlfriend, a regular reader of the Jezebel dot com. Pat would let his political side come out around me during the 2012 presidential election and whenever gay “marriage” was on the state ballot. Other than that, he was a perfectly solid bro. Remember this was still during the Obama administration when we could maintain a facade of unity before the Orange Man came in.
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I graduated in 2014 and didn’t ever see Pat again. After Pat passed the bar, he took a job working for state legal aid, effectively making him one of the lowest paid attorneys dedicated to serving illegal aliens and repeat criminals.
Through Facebook I could see that he married his liberal girlfriend who took a turn for the radical after Trump took office. The once mousy looking girl had cropped off her hair, got her septum pierced, started wearing a crystal around her neck and “bash the fash” shirts.
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Last year, I saw a friend suggestion on social media of a very ugly woman with 5 o clock shadow on a familiar face. It turns out that Pat is actually “Patricia” now and has taken to wearing French braids and skirt suits. Luckily for Pat, he has all the validation he needs from our law school classmates who let him know how much a beautiful woman he is.
A white atheist male member of the Pop Cult who ended up marrying a literal witch. Starved of any real meaning working in a profession which denigrates white men, he sought his own salvation through the Death Cult.
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May God have mercy on this man. A man who in many ways, wasn’t all that different from me when I knew him.
Members of Generation Y face a choice between two fates:
- Find true meaning and purpose through Jesus Christ
- Reject meaning as a thrall of the Death Cult
Option 1 is the only path to salvation.
Option 2 ends in becoming a byword and a warning to others.
Choose this day whom you will serve.
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In retrospect it’s pretty remarkable how much everyone just got along in a lukewarm pool as late as the early 2010s. We subsisted on the same slop like the Daily Show, Game of Thrones and the NFL. We enjoyed the same memes like, “Winning!”, Rebecca Black and Gangnam Style.
To me there were 3 major events that severed the bloated Pop Cult into either turning to Jesus Christ or the Death Cult.
1. Gamergate: The public got a major expose on how much feminists and anti-racists were injecting propaganda into entertainment. The term “SJW” entered into the public vernacular. The transgender movement is starting to gain traction with public figures like Brianna Wu.
2. Trump’s election: Permanently shattered public trust in mainstream news. For the first time major conservative voices started being outright censored on social media platforms. Terms like “alt-right”, “woke”, and “white nationalist” start circulating widely. The transgender movement becomes fully mainstream with Bruce Jenner winning “Woman of the Year.”
3. The cataclysm of 2020. Lockdowns, social distancing and vaccine debates destroy friendships and families. George Floyd/BLM/DEI effectively legislates the demonization of white people, OnlyFans emerges making pornography a non-stigmatized career choice for young women, transgenderism explodes within Gen Z, the media goes from mocking conservatives to calling for their arrests and deaths following January 6, the Groyper movement changes the dynamic of the conservative movement, “Return to Tradition/Reject Modernity” gains traction among young men with things like traditional Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Islam and stoicism.
The early 2010s was the dying gasp of “go along to get along.”
The Death Cult’s tranny mania does seem to have been the last straw for Normie. I’ve heard multiple Gen X and Y people who supported the sodomy agenda say in no uncertain terms that they refuse to pretend that men in wigs are women, even if it means their jobs.
When I wrote my piece called Ten Years Gone, it was a reflection on how much things changed since 2013, especially compared to, say, 2003 to 2013. I still go back to the piece I’m quoting every now and then: https://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/2023/10/ten-years-gone.html
Gen Y’s slow slide into insanity started in the aftermath of 9/11 when the last of them graduated high school and spent the 2000s trying to be the perfect consumers their parents taught them to be. They still had some semblance of self-awareness, still under the illusion that the boring life the Baby Boomers promised them and Gen X made fun of as dull would naturally come to them. When it didn’t, and when they had to accept everything they were raised on wasn’t even so much a lie but not sustainable and was never going to happen, they had the choice to accept it and adapt or rage against reality itself. That is pretty much what the two sides of the last ten years were. That’s where the spike in suicides, depression, and bitterness, came from.
But now that it’s been that long, and especially after lockdown world successfully pushed the remnants of their sanity over the edge, we are in the comedown stage. Gen Y isn’t young anymore, nor are they immortal, as 2020 showed. The ones who made it through aren’t normal anymore, because the old normality is gone.
At this point, I don’t see people like the old version of Pat around anymore. It’s either one direction or the other, and the two sides are not going to come together, as designed by those in charge.
We either become the Gen Y that fulfills our potential and our role, or we implode into a scrap heap of insular rage at reality. There does not seem to be a middleground beyond that anymore.
It’s like Dave Greene said, the Kids Who Read aren’t kids anymore (and they don’t even read anymore either, from my experience), and what they are becoming is currently being decided at this very moment. It will absolutely not be like it is now in 2034. What it will be like then is up to what we do now.
Elsewhere I put 2013 as the year where it was impossible to pretend like the Gen Y dream of “everything will stay the same, except with better tech” was still alive. Reasons included the internet being gobbled up by a few big companies, (indirectly showing that streaming was just going to become cable) social media becoming unavoidable, a set of lackluster console releases, the war in Libya, the George Zimmerman trial and the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. At that point two things were obvious:
1.) The “everyday is Christmas” level of technological development was over, especially in the entertainment industry.
2.) It was no longer possible to just have everyone get along. (Not that it really had been in the 90’s or 00’s either if you were paying attention, but it was possible to not pay attention back then.)
But it wasn’t yet obvious how dire things were. I think that most people in Gen Y thought that we’d just kind of coast along with the good stuff maintaining where it was, and perhaps politics getting more heated but nothing too serious. It wasn’t until the events you mention that it became obvious that politics had went from “we have serious disagreements” to “we want you to die and your entire culture to be erased from history.”
I do agree that 2020 was the determining factor. If you refused the jab and refused to make a humiliation oath to DEI, then there’s very little after that that can sway you. This is particularly true by how utterly pathetic both of those movements look without the hysteria caused by the lockdowns and the sense of rage from the riots (though anyone who lived through the OJ Simpson trial really has no excuse for getting caught up in that.) In contrast if you bowed to those demands, you probably are still having a hard time resisting each new demand, no matter how stupid.
I would say that one of the first big events that illustrated the new reality was the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in 2021. In the 00’s and even most of the 10’s you would expect to see people at least pretend to have some nuance when discussing the event, especially on the conservative side. Now the country is split between people who think that he was 100% in the right and narrowly avoided getting screwed over by a crooked prosecution and people who think that he should have his life ruined even IF he isn’t actually guilty of a crime (since his real crime was opposing rioters.) No one is in the middle ground.
What I find interesting is the rising logos over the past 3 years in particular.
2022: Roe v Wade gets overturned.
2023: For the first time since Obergefell, we saw mass public resistance to the Pride movement with What is a Woman, the Bud Lite/Target protests and the Dodger Stadium protest.
2024: “Christ is King” becoming the rallying cry for the new American right. Mass public demonstrations against Israel.
There truly is no going back at this point. As Brian said, it’s Jesus Christ or it’s the Death Cult. Otherwise you’re just spinning your wheels and pining for the 90-00s to come back.
From time to time, I like to check in on groups outside my immediate social scene to take the temperature of the room and get some perspective. The two key demographics I track as leading indicators are:
1) Death Cultists
2) Gen X & Y Normies
In case you missed it, a new genre of doompoasting has gained traction in online Death Cult hives. The common refrain goes: “Our spells aren’t working anymore. We used the wrong magic word somewhere in the ritual, and they’ve stopped listening to us. Now they just shrug off our most potent hexes and openly blaspheme the most sacred groups. The nonbelievers somehow don’t realize they’re free again, so there’s a slim window to retool the programming and get back on track toward utopia, but we don’t know how!”
Yes, the Death Cult’s default mode is low-grade panic. Prosecuting their infernal revolution requires that they be whipped into a near-frenzy by the looming fear that the Bogeyman is just seconds away from imposing a Pat Robertson theocracy. So I’d take their despair with a bucket of salt, if not for the talk from Normie.
In short, Normie is fed up. He’s not sure what’s going on, but he knows he’s been de facto banned from corporate jobs, his food bill has tripled, and mainstream entertainment sucks. He’s in revolt agains the tranny nonsense, waking up to his status as a racial outlaw, and even questioning the butt stuff. Sure, his rallying cry is “Bring back the 90s!” But just four years ago, it was “Progress for progress’ sake!”
The Death Cult is hyper-sensitive to shifts in the cultural current. So it’s that last item that’s got them on the verge of going Jonestown.
… As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.
Amen.