We oldest Millennials are now in our mid-40s. This affords us enough of a vantage point to look back and see where it went right for our generation, and where it went wrong. Where we won and where we lost.
Economically, our situation is clearly worse than the Boomers but better than for Gen Z. Looking at the long-term home price to income ratio trend, it can be seen that Boomers enjoyed the best of times when it came to affording the necessities of life. The hardest times are now and the near- to medium-term future.
Finding housing is hell for people today, but it wasn’t so bad for us 20 years ago. At the turn of the Century, when we were young, housing was plentiful and cheap. Finding good quality student flats was not hard. Gen Z have it very hard by contrast. Compared to previous generations, very few of them are married and homeowners by the age of 30. This is the main reason fertility rates are crashing.
The days of the Boomers being able to land a job with a firm handshake are long gone. We Millennials, however, have managed to scrape ourselves into a position where most of us are doing okay. For Gen Z, however, the situation is so precarious that mental disorders are surging. The combination of housing uncertainty and precarious employment has made life hellish for the generations after us.
Education has been extremely mixed. On the one hand, the ease of access to higher education is excellent thanks to the Internet in general and YouTube in particular. This has made it possible to receive university-tier lectures without needing to move to a university city.
On the other hand, the education system is now full of Marxists. It’s almost impossible to get an education today without also being brainwashed into hating white people. The Long March Through The Institutions has been completed, and now it’s almost impossible to get into a teaching position without being a Marxist.
Arguably we Millennials had the best women. Millennial women were post-Christian in the sense they generally didn’t have the same religious hang-ups that Boomer women did. They were up for it – the popular belief was that sex was a fun and positive thing. Millennial women liked having boyfriends. The gender discourse was not yet totally poisoned.
Gen Z seems to have a preponderance of sexually unresponsive women owing to mass antidepressant and antipsychotic uptake. This was only a small problem for Millennials. Gen Z also appears to suffer from a new form of puritanism that suggests sex is immoral. Even approaching a woman is considered offensive by some of these new ascetics.
Millennials also arguably had the best relation to technology and video games. The Silent Generation had the radio and the cinema. The Boomers had the television. We Millennials got all of that as well as (what seemed like at the time) incredible video games. But we didn’t also suffer the invasive panopticon that Gen Z did.
It was possible for Millennials to party and cut loose without the fear of being recorded that Gen Z currently operates under. We could do dumb stuff without it ending up on the Internet. Gen Z is imprisoned by technology in a way that we never were; history has truly vindicated Ted Kaczynski.
Entertainment and culture in general was very good for we Millennials. The music may not have been as great as it was for the Boomers, and the literature may have been significantly worse, but the film was as good, and in all cases much better for Millennials than for Gen Z. We mostly had the same drugs as the Boomers i.e. alcohol and tobacco, with the occasional bit of weed.
Social cohesion is much worse for Millennials than for Boomers. The Boomers got to grow up in white societies in which politeness and regard for others were considered normal. Their neighbourhoods were generally safe and full of people who looked out for each other.
The Muttening kicked in for Millennials, who had it much worse than the Boomers. But Gen Z will have it much worse again. Gen Z is growing up in conditions closer to a zoo than to a civilisation. Whether civilisation has still avoided collapse by the time Gen Z are pensioners is anyone’s guess. But the early stages of collapse can be seen in white flight from big cities.
When it comes to spirituality, we had it about the same as the Boomers in that we were also pinned by the Clown World Fork of Christianity or atheism. Almost all of us got the mainstream scientific atheist narrative throughout our school years, and many of us came to adulthood watching the Four Horsemen of Atheism, who just seemed logical and reasonable. Those of us who suspected there was more to life than materialism usually ended up on psychiatric medication.
Gen Z may live to see a genuine spiritual resurgence. This is because materialism is no longer satisfying to people in general. There’s an awareness that materialism correlates with nihilism and thereby with all kinds of degeneracy and misery. This has led to a revival in the perennial spiritual philosophy. Whether this is the much-prophecised dawn of the Age of Aquarius and another Satya Yuga remains to be seen. But the early signs are promising.
The general rule is that Boomers had it the best, Gen Z the worst, and we Millennials somewhere in the middle. This accords with society’s general decline into Clown World. However, Millennials did have it best in some limited ways.
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