Millennial Apathy? An Intriguing and Honest View of the World From a Struggling Millennial
Written by Craig Rogers, Posted on , in Section Must Reads
Artwork by Cristo, the author of the article below...
Time and Task - A Unique View of the World at Large by Millennials... are they right?
Today's millennials seem to be very aware of their own personal inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes - and it haunts them. They are not blissfully ignorant, but painfully aware.
But more apparent to millennials is the reality that they are yet a reflection of today's culture. Millennials are a manifestation of the inconsistencies and incongruencies of our society.
No matter where you look you will find inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes, all of which define the American experience - it's so thick you can cut it with a knife. This is especially true when it comes to behavioral decisions or matters of the heart. For example, millennials are very aware and concerned about climate change and global warming, but personally do very little to impact the world. The movement known as Black Lives Matter are authentically concerned about black lives, yet they ignore the slaughter of young black men in Chicago, Baltimore, St Louis, Milwaukee, and New Orleans.
Progressives and conservatives alike are incongruent in their own ideologies, and none of their values or principles make sense. They do not operate from a singular flow of values, attitudes, or beliefs - yet they are in a constant state of internal conflict, and they know it, but ignorant of the inconsistency in themselves while being able to pinpointing the inconsistencies in their opponents - and all of this happens at once. They are ware of being unaware, consistent with their inconsistencies, and internally okay with their own incongruencies while annoyed at others for their incongruent and disjointed beliefs.
Instead of consistency, our culture is a constant internal conflict of thought, where right is wrong but only if "you are doing it!" Those who preach tolerance do so in the name of intolerance, practicing the worst kind of intolerance. Those who stick people being bullied are bullies themselves. Those who defend the defenseless and the oppressed do so through oppression. Those who are offended are guilty of being highly offensive without remorse or regret. The truth be told, those who call out others for hateful speech do it in the most hateful ways.
No wonder millennials are confused, they are a reflection of the greater society. Below is an incredible article by an millennial struggling...
Tick... Tock... A Mission Statement
Original article written by Cristor1991 on MillennialApathy.wordpress.com August 13th, 2016
I am terrified. As the proverbial clock ticks loudly in my mind, I am reminded that each and every day, I am wasting my life. I am reminded that I have missed out on so much by choosing to do so little. I am reminded that my compulsive procrastination is my cancer, hard work is my chemotherapy, and I am too much of a coward to suffer through the intense treatment that could potentially save my life.
Every second of every day, I insufferably do nothing as the clock pounds away…
Tick… I am 25 years old with nothing to show for it.
Tock… I have crushing debt that I cannot possibly pay back.
Tick… I live on my parent’s couch in the house I grew up in.
Tock… I don’t have a car and will not be able to afford one anytime soon.
Tick… I have yet to go back to school and fear that it’s too late to start now.
Tock… I am a quarter of a century old, and instead of changing the world – as I naively thought I would have done by now when I was a teenager- I am a failure-to-launch 20-something, addict who hates himself, hates the world, and has no practical skills to speak of. I am nothing.
I am terrified.
Tick… My personality has now become indistinguishably intertwined with negativity, resentment, hatred, and self-delusional aspirations to compensate for my lack of productivity.
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