Failure to launch
Increasingly there's such a thing as young people "failing to launch". 17 year olds aren't getting their drivers license, they aren't giving a shit at work so they're getting fired, they aren't dating, they aren't having sex, they aren't drinking, partying, clubbing. They're literally doing nothing with their lives.
Having been born in 2001, I genuinely feel I was on the last chopper out of Naam. Even my generation has some level of this apathy towards life. To be fully honest, my story was a close one as well. I ended up being invited to parties out of dumb luck, I went to university on a whim, I got my first girlfriend out of "right place, right time", I got my drivers license because my dad wouldn't shut up about it, I started my career because I just happened to have an obsession over computers.
My "successful launch" was by a hair. Though I do feel many peoples stories are relatively similar. It's kind of like a butterfly effect thing, tiny things lead to massive things.
Many mid-wit Redditors would tell you this is because there's very little to actually live for. Dating is too expensive and risky, you can't buy a house, the career as we know it is dead. I've always felt it's a perception thing.
People having their houses bombed in WWII would've felt the world was ending
People having 2/3'ds of people around them during the black plague would've felt the world was ending
People having the mongol hordes come over the hills to rape and pillage their villages would've felt the world was ending
But life carried on.
Now because you have to save for 3-4 years for a deposit instead of buying a house with the cash in your bank account, or scientists say that farmland in Bangladesh may have lower yields because of water levels rising over the next 80 years; everyone is opting out of life.
People entirely lack perspective and they feel, even though we objectively live in the one of the best periods in all of time when it comes to most objective measurements, everyone's massively de-motivated to actually live a life. It's unbelievably pathetic, but I genuinely wouldn't know what to say to these people.
Why
Everybody is their "own person" now, which just means everyone's atomised and alone.
I grew up as one of these baseless, lost, young men. Someone close to me is Catholic and I see the community they immediately have by being Catholic, you go to church, you see similar faces, you likely went to the same school, you have common traditions. I never had any of this. This goes alongside people mentioning that modern society lacking rites of passage.
Social media is one of the most damaging things to have ever hit the human race.
Life is too comfortable, we're so fortunate now that you can contribute nothing to yourself and your community but you'll still be kept alive by surplus value of society.
Everything is performative and consumerist, people aren't human any more. In American psycho there's a line that I will quote time and time again because it encapsulates the modern person so well, "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.". People you meet are defined by what brands they consume, what identities or humour they've downloaded from the internet, iPhone or Android, are you Blackpill / bluepill / redpill or pink pill. No one has a personality anymore. There's this resurgence of religious zoomers now, thank god for Evola. I always suspected much of the "zoomers turn to religion" to be performative and non-genuine, you could not have a better example of Evolas "Second religiosity" than the zoomer turn to religion.
Maturity crisis
Growing up, I realised something quite terrifying, there's actually very few adults in the world.
There are plenty of large children, but very few genuine, fully formed adults.
Why
It started with the boomers, as with many things that it was almost seen as a good thing not to mature. Remaining as a child for your whole life is seen in the culture as a positive thing for some reason.
As with many brain worms, the 60's hippy thinking made too many people comfortable with being children their entire lives.
So what
There's no one at the wheel.
In the online space there's a lot of talk around how the powers that be don't like the idea of there being high testosterone men walking around, fundamentally the higher your testosterone the harder you are to lie to and control. The examples of various EU countries restricting young mens access to fitness content online because of "links to the far right" pop up.
It's not particularly surprising that when you build some muscle, eat right, sleep right, stop complaining that you all of a sudden become "right wing". Societies live and die based on whether the men in it give a shit about maintaining it. When the men soften out the background femininity of "let's just treat the whole world like they're our family" ends up causing everything to fall apart.
We now have a society of adult toddlers, whether it be through their own fault or being psy-opped by a society that wants fewer physically and mentally fit men who want a good life.
