millenial malaisin
by owl · updated 1mo ago
millenial malaisin
Most generations have significant social crises with which to contend, and that helped to shape their worldview. Ours was no different. We were a generation coming of age in the aftermath of 9/11 and the return to endless wars abroad. Climate change increasingly loomed over our future like the most ghoulish apocalypse film ever conceived, and then
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a child, I grew up with strong feelings
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Deep feelings of who I am and what is important in life
I felt one with the world
Living and caring was one
As I became older, culture took over
The stories I heard began to color my life
I went to school
I learned that adults and experts know—not children
I learned that knowledge is external—not internal
Kicked outfrom What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis by Christine Wamsler
owl added 3mo ago
a personal parenthesis
at 23 i left home, not just the house i lived in but the country i lived in, to pursue an abstract "better life".
i wasn't sure what it would look like, but a new job gave me a ticket out and i took it with the full confidence that in about 5 years i would know what was actually next in my life. a stepping stone into a five yea
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Those responsible for the worst treatment of the world and its human occupants continue to do so because we don’t make things hard enough for them: a little hardship and directed hostility toward the rich is long, long overdue. At the same time, though, we know very well why such a mass uprising and tidal shift remains difficult. Those who most fee
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the darker implication of the malaise is the reality that it is all by design. a few hundred years ago certain powers aligned against the people. overloading from birth to the point that it is a luxury, a privilege, to even consider the state of the world. in thinking about all of this i can't help but drown in a kind of survivor's guilt mixed with impostor syndrome— i can(t help but) think about these things when, outside my window, there's someone that's negotiating with themselves on whether to feed themselves now or pay bill later. and somewhere, someone even more educated and in an even more privileged position considers the same for me.
but at some point up that ladder i want to hope someone with some weight will think about the rest of us all the way down and throw a wrench in the system that stacked us in a vertical maze to begin with.
As awful as these events have been, I am no longer struck by their horror. They all seem to be the near-inevitable, direct effects of how we are running our political economies. I am more struck by our slow ability to react.
from End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You by Spencer R. Scott
owl added 3mo ago
- It is an old compulsion to try to impose a narrative on our lives, especially when looking for meaning in our existence. But life does have a natural progression, a natural flow that Millennials ought to have simply participated in, and many feel it’s not flowing as it should.
Many felt there were certain things that should have fallen into place by... See morefrom ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy by Bride Jabour
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amongst the reasons i've theorised, the ubiquity of media (specifically, nostalgia-driven and self-referential media), where no one seems to age or "mature”(whatever that means). the other side of the theory involves, of course, capitalism. the oppressive conditions that might lead us to turn inward, seek distraction and perform a "simpler” time perpetually— to willingly blind ourselves to the crippling realization that we grew into a world much more hostile than any previous generation had to face. i miss vine, btw. dab and all that.
- We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See morefrom ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy by Bride Jabour
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