Late zoomer. Most zoomers here are mostly in their 20s.
I'm in the process of doing that. Thing is that I figured out none of the IRL friendships I had were real. So I'm going on a trip throughout Europe, alone.
Isn't Europe just a graveyard of souls who don't care for each other? I know that Europeans love to boast being better than the United States but there a lot of research and studies that prove otherwise. However, this is not meant to discourage you from going. If you can manage to develop friendship there, good on you.
Actually, Europe not being as compassionate as the US itself reminds me of the "European Syndrome" that was mentioned in the civil society video by political juice of which I have posted a video of it in another thread for another but similar subject entirely.
(Some I feel like the US has since been adopting over the years)
Somewhat. The most noticeable problem I have found is their inability to socialize with their peers in "meatspace". But this is just for the zoomers personally, but you can unwind a lot of informations from thing alone.
I have found that a lot zoomers "lack balls" - their self-worth is very low thanks to social media, and they dont trust themselves enough. I have met a lot of insanely talented zoomers, but the plague that is social media stomped their self-image into the ground and they think they are worthless. This causes a positive feedback loop.
They will try less often, meaning they will see less good results that would improve their self-image, meaning they will try even less. This spirals out of control into the nihilistic worldview.
Second thing, because the zoomers are so dependant on their safe-spaces on the internet for positive affirmation, they socialize less and less. Even through we live in an era where everyone is "closer" to each another, ironically this has isolated us even more.
Removing the majority of social media and a fuckton of meme pages (this one was really important) while focusing on those few friendships that there truly are helped me out tremendously.
I won't lie that while social media and the internet itself is a great form of communications between peoples, it has been a detriment to most people's mental health. There's certainly tons of devs, especially the ones from Facebook who'd tell you that they had to program the site to be the equivalent of taking drugs and even so when you find out that their founders and CEO place limits on their children when they use their tablets and phones. Messed up I know but unfortunately that's how many social media platforms, even the ones form the 2000s like myspace are no different than Facebook.
As for people
in general (Not just an issue with our generation) lacking the balls to stand for themselves and having bleak outlook. I honestly believe that is not on the blame of social media platforms but rather the many progressive or "left-wing" groups and movements instead. You know; Social Justice, Political Correctness, Double Standards, and Radical Feminism... Shit that you'd just laugh at and watch their shitty arguments and emotion fly like monkey flinging shit at each other on channels like Sargon of Akkad for example back from 2013 to 2015 really.
Sadly, however it was during those years did these movements actually began to grow like a plague and started threating various businesses and schools/Colleges to conform or face certain legal actions or violence. Sure, there was resistance but after hearing stories of these people being mobbed in colleges or chanted down and kicked out, basically their lives being destroyed at the hands of these marauding losers with no purpose in their lives; it really begins to seep into the minds of people and to some not in a good away. Fear, paranoia, anxiety... Stuff like that would causing people to lose chase with bad habits such as blocking people you don't agree with and so forth, yeah that's just a recipe for disaster further fueling emotional reactions.
And what you get at the end of the day is a rise of depression and a cynical view of the world and life not only because a bunch of people had apparently made it so where it feels all alienating and impossible to communicate with another but made it make sure that
YOU'RE of what's wrong with the world and totally not the emotionally driven and meat for brains folks that forced society to a breaking point. Doesn't help that these days every event and issue feel like a knee jerk reaction of a knee jerk reactions nearly 10 years ago when it comes to countering or "resisting" newer generations of ideologues causing some to basically disconnect themselves completely with reality, also creating a feedback loop itself entirely really. It's no wonder why many people have seemed to "lack balls" these days and why they'd prefer to be given up forms of liberty for the safety of themselves which in the eyes of Benjamin Franklin; deserve neither.
some of the smarter, more aware ones have looked at the economic situation atm and concluded that they'll never own a house or anything of value so they spend all their money on take out and frying their brain with drugs.
They don't sound smart to me if they think it's futile to attempt to encourage people to become aware of the policies and regulations being passed being the detriment to the market economy at ALL!
I've been aware of the housing issue since my early teens. The only conclusion I have reached is to run. Run away from modern society entirely. I'm going to get some basic construction skills and try and find people with access to land who are interested in the idea. Construct small houses out in some rural area with some amount of self-sustaining agriculture. That's the only way I could seriously have a child (let alone multiple).
Okay I get why you think making friends in Europe is a good idea but let me be fucking real to you now. "Running away" from "modern society" is just plain childish. What sense of accomplishment or satisfaction are you gonna get from moving to bum fuck out of nowhere and building a house? Even the rural folks living there will question your decision because unfortunately and this going to be the case of every rural town you go to; there's not much to do out there other than being online or having to commute to a city for job purposes which is counterproductive in trying to "get away" from "modern society".
Also, by the way, agriculture is not easy, its time consuming and would cost you tons of money if you plan on not only buying land but also buying the necessary equipment in order to properly farm and even if you make a "self-sustaining" community you'd be closing yourselves out from basic trade with other towns and cities because your contempt towards "modern society" the community is already dead before it even started. No not even if you have children.
Seriously, stop putting your head in clouds because it's no different than whatever "modern society" is doing because this is not how the world works at all. If you really want to live off grid, do it, buy an acre of land in Maine, but only because you're interested of living off-grid. Not because you want to rebuild society in your own eyes just because you don't like the people living in our current society. My lord did the internet warped your perceptions on things hasn't it?
yes. the sad thing is that for a lot of people their understanding of psychology and philosophy comes from pseudes on the internet like Dr. Peterson. No matter your stance on the political actions Peterson has taken, he's still sub par in terms of philosophy. Save from the christian theology (which is, depending on prior beliefs, not intellectually valuable), the dude is just an academic with a youtube channel. literally any punk on this board, given some time, could be twice the intellectual Peterson is.
I completely agree. Generational bullshit is just agism that marketers rely on to exploit populations. It's just that divide and conquor fascist bullshit.
I barely watch Peterson but I know he's only popular because he comes across as an antithesis to the current popular beliefs and ideologies currently being held by most academics in universities. That's it really. Though it is a stretch to say some business men are deliberately trying to market off the outrage between generations because I have not seen commercials or products that advertises to such masses.
