The problem isn’t that millenials have peter pan syndrome, but that they realize that they were raised to respect authority and the authority is undeserving of that respect. Basically forced to go to college at gun point and then employers turned their back on an entire generation because of globalization and exploiting other countries for cheap labor. The photographing of police officers is also causing people to lose respect for authority. And it’s a pretty strong consensus outside of a few rich boys and some ultrapatriotic and naive people that we stick our nose in military places that we don’t belong. A good indicator of this is that people of our generation stopped attending church frequently – which is correlated to a cynical and distrustful view of the world. The same thing happened in Russia during communism.
If my predictions are right, America is totally screwed unless the government expands in a major way and creates a welfare state. Employers simply don’t need employees anymore beyond menial jobs. Boomers are standing in the way, because they live in their time not the current time.
It’s kind of like the drug cartels in Mexico. Some people may have had a good run because they were useful to the cartels. It’s that boomers are too bone headed to get this, that the cartels would just as quickly murder everyone. The only difference is it’s bankrupting people instead of murder. Their political influence keeps entrenching these forces.
Boomers do not understand that it wasn’t hard work that got them a steady career, but luck. The wave came, they road it. They didn’t create the doorways that were opened for them. Those doors would shut right in their faces if they were born later.
People who were big in the myspace era take shots at facebook. I don’t like to name names, but there was a guy in a metalcore band from lancaster he probably was big on myspace. He calls it “this website” disparagingly. But because of his fame he’s got a big fb account.
Except for situations like this, the people who traffic in fb get it by acting like their life is perfect. The people who don’t either don’t get traffic or they drop off.
Look at who I used to like. People like KW, Jason H. Chris Y, Alex S from Lancaster Catholic. A guy named John Thomas from YCP. They either don’t have accounts or have tiny ones, which I unfriended because I thought the FBI was reading my account way back in the day.
The places I was best known was free speech forums that started before facebook. And on those forums, they don’t protect people. Al Qaeda members, national socialists, hardcore communists, all sorts of people could be there. It’s sink or swim. It’s all about the brutal. It’s all about the truth. I also had a decent linkedin account before it was shut down.
My ultimate position is that nothing will improve in America until boomers are totally removed from policy making decisions. They committed the poor policy decisions and now they’re committing the cover up. America keeps going back between Democrats and Republicans, but keeps leaving Boomers in power with the notable exception of Biden who is too old to be a boomer. I’m sick of reaching middle age and still having to deal with their policies.
There wasn’t such a direct pipeline from corporate power to political power before the Boomers. Jimmy Carter for example got elected with little corporate support. Companies will continue to discard and abuse their employees and the GDP and Nasdaq will be used to tell us the economy is good. We’ll still intervene unnecessarily overseas. We’ll continue to support “free trade” instead of adjusting taxation to the cost of living which is low in third world countries. We’ll continue to have Democrats try to play racial identity politics while leaving the system in place and Republicans play anti identity politics while leaving the system in place.
I wouldn’t mind having children because I feel we’re past the point where life is enjoyable and basically looking back. So might as well pass the torch and observe. The problem is financial. Baby Boomers have completely pulled the ladder up and given all the power to the well connected and nothing to the person who earns his way. Those people become scapegoats. Even today they’re still pushing policies that destroy the working class.
The reason our system doesn’t work is that people on the top make mistakes and then blame and get fired people beneath them. They essentially railroad people. They reserve scapegoats and dig dirt and then utilize them when they screw up. That’s the present Baby Boomers have left us. A white collar system that doesn’t work.
I never discuss people in business by name and am not using linkedin. I defend meritocracy. I am not a child I am an adult. I know life is not fair. I like jobs where performance is cut and dry so that people who are interested only in rank and social status cannot successfully try to white collar connect against me and use their social status to screw up what I am doing. This is why I stepped away from computer programming and tech jobs and what will have to be overcome if I am to step back. I was always “good” at what I did.
Young men need to stop being taught that the only way to support yourself is to go to college and be part of the professional managerial class.They’re many things you can do. You can live rural and grow your own food. You can start your own business. You can learn to bike instead of drive and then be able to have more latitude for what you need to earn immediately.It’s turning men into corporate slaves and feminizing them.
You might ask “what’s the point of the music” there’s definitely a point to it. You might say “you’re not signed by a label, what’s the point.” There’s a point. Because what I’m doing is sticking deep structures into the ground and walling off an environment that I’m in charge of. Even if the audience is small, an advanced creation points to an advanced creator. It’s essentially displaying what I’m capable of doing and inverting liars who try to question whether I really have the aptitude to produce and design. Basically some condescending boss can’t take this away from me. And the potential exists for me to run my own business around it too.
Beware of a boss in tech who blames his problems on other people. The problem is, there’s no safety net to stop him from doing it. It’s these beta male types that I always have a problem with. They try to one up me for no reason.