What's wrong with the Millennials? Part 4 in Current Events

This is a generation without trust because they were set up for failure. A generation that is now obsessed with authenticity and with what is real and true. Millennials experience investments of their energy and hard work as things that have no payoff whatsoever. For instance, as kids they invest in a family only to have divorce ruin the family. They watched their parents invest time in their marriage and they watched that marriage fail anyway. They were taught to invest for social success and what they saw was that it only made them better slaves. They got student debt and degrees that they can’t get jobs with. They started small businesses only to lose them in the most recent pandemic. This is what burnout is all about. It’s putting so much energy towards something and having nothing pan out. Millennials are the burnout generation.

If you believe that investing energy and effort into something is going to have no payoff how invested are you going to be? The laziness many people attribute to the Millennial generation isn’t laziness. It’s a lack of investment and engagement. Millennials struggle to believe anything positive will come out of their effort, time and investment. As a result they don’t have much patience. They don’t believe in a long-term payoff. So it is the immediate result of nothing. This is a deeply disillusioned and deeply cynical generation. Seeing how nothing ever pans out this has thrown Millennials into an existential crisis. A quarter-life crisis you could say. They had to reassess their values. The values held by Millennials do not directly mirror the values of previous generations in the same way. Their top values might surprise you.

1) Good Parenting. They see good parenting as one of the most important things. So much so that many of them will not be having children because they don’t feel they can be good parents. They believe this for many reasons. From emotional reasons to financial reasons to even the poor prognosis for the future of Earth.
2) Relationships. This went in two directions. One is where they are going to commit to relationships that are about casual sex and serial monogamous relationships. The other direction is that they became so determined to solve the Rubiks cube of how to make a relationship work that its an obsession.
3) Meaningful Work. They care about finding work that is meaningful and fulfilling right now rather than putting their energy into a future payoff. That’s a huge shift in mankind’s consciousness

What Millennials woke up to was this: nobody did anything for my best interests. They did it for their best interests so this must mean that it’s every man for himself. This caused Millennials a lot of pain whether they are conscious of it or not. They believe that everything in this world is narcissistic and that these narcissistic strategies for self-interest are going to play out against them. Instead of deciding to be loving and break the mould, they adapted. Alright I want to become a shark too then. I guess the only person who is there for me is me. They focused on their own best interests and withdrew their loyalty to others and
they became me-monsters because it is the only way they believe to get their needs met. This narcissistic way of being is why it is hard for Millennials to be a functional member of a team. This is a drastic contrast to previous generations who believed that creating and preserving relationships is what creates success. Millennials see that as something that screwed them so they have the reverse mentality. To get success, they have to fight for their own self-interests and have a loose connection to people and things. Looking at this we come to the second wounding within the Millennial generation.

Does putting energy into something and working super hard without attaining something as a result sound familiar? Who else works really hard for no return? Slaves.

Last updated May 26, 2020