The Most Gaslit Generation Ever And My Hope For The Future
If you feel like this country is getting more extreme when it comes to sexual orientation, perceived discrimination, and shitty outlook, it’s not your imagination. A survey conducted by the non-partisan group PRRI found that younger generations, and in particular Gen Zs, are way more gay and feel more persecuted than their older counterparts.
In fact, we’ve experienced a rainbow explosion in which nearly 30% of Gen Z adults identify as something other than straight.
While people from older generations are likely to be hesitant when it comes to admitting they are not straight skewing the results slightly, are we really supposed to believe that 30% of this Gen Z population is really bisexual, gay, or trans?
Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t think it’s a big deal if someone is gay or even claims to be trans although they are likely not really suffering from gender dysphoria and aren’t really trans. Live and let live in my book as long as you aren’t harming others or unduly influencing immature minds (that goes for all sides.)
But if more humans are becoming more gay, or want to cut off body parts pretending to be the other sex what does that mean for the survival of the human race. From an evolutionary and a biological perspective this trend does not make sense.
Are younger people really more gay and trans? Undoubtedly, our food and water are highly contaminated with all manner of gender bending chemicals not to mention what’s in the creams, soaps, lotions, and makeup we smear all over our bodies.
Could those chemicals along with the Standard American Diet (SAD) be helping to crush or alter hormone levels in developing children and adolescents as well?
Or is there something else going on?
Interestingly, Generation Z also feels more discriminated against than older generations.
I realize that this survey has its limitations and data will be the result of who took the survey. But how do younger generations feel more discriminated against based on race than their ancestors who lived through segregation?
For those Gen Z adults who feel like they’re discriminated against because of their “gender identity” or sexual orientation, just because someone else disagrees with your choice that is not discrimination. The great thing about this country is that you can hold opinions and beliefs that might offend others. I know lefties, can you imagine such a thing?
We’ve had a black president, we currently have a black female VP, and gay and trans people hold lofty positions in the Biden administration. Being gay or trans makes you a sacred cow in this current age. Who exactly is holding you back? It’s not the 1950s anymore.
It was not a shocker to learn that Gen Zs who lean left perceive more discrimination.
Those privileged white Republicans have no idea what it’s like. But the Asians who have been discriminated against by Affirmative Action policies for college admissions sure do.
As a reminder, I’m non-binary when it comes to politics. Truth be told, I lean towards more classical liberalism but with an amazingly limited government.
Also not a shocker, Gen Z has more negative emotion and poorer outlook than previous generations.
According to the authors of the paper:
Gen Z adults have the highest median score on the negative emotions scale (0.33), higher than millennials (0.25), Gen Xers (0.17), boomers (0.17), and members of the Silent Generation (0.08).
Democrats experience more negative emotion as do white females. Nothing here that we can’t already identify readily from everyday life and media portrayals.
While the perceived discrimination, social injustices, and negative emotions are narratives driven largely by academia, media, and some politicians in order to distract and divide the population, I don’t want to minimize some of the very real frustrations that are experienced by younger generations.
They’ve been saddled with monumental debt that is going to support the least productive people in the country via transfer payments from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as well as other bloated government bureaucracies including ridiculous military spending.
College unfortunately became a big business racket thanks to the federal government getting into the college loan business. Now, you take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to get a degree in a made up field of study that is utterly useless in any functioning aspect of society except for academia, but that you need to have so you can get a job as a server at Applebees.
They also have exorbitant healthcare costs thanks to the government’s protection of the existing medicine and medical insurance cartels driving up costs and eliminating competition. You get terrible outcomes, but hey, we have the most expensive healthcare in the world so, you know…
Thanks to the financialization of the economy, central banks and federal governments backstop financial institutions and other bloated mismanaged companies that should fail. Everyday items continue to get exorbitantly more expensive making it harder to buy damn near anything without taking on massive personal debt that will only put them further behind in reality.
From the moment they’ve been able to understand words, Gen Zs have heard that humans are destroying the planet and climate change is an existential crisis. Climate change is not a crisis and certainly not an existential one, but try telling that to someone who has heard this bullshit for years on end.
Gen Zs have also been hammered with insane false gender ideology spouted by people in a cult like manner.
Even though you were born a boy or a girl, you may not really be a boy or girl.
You might be a boy, or a girl, or both, or neither. You could be any of those any given day. Sex/gender is really not an either or thing and is constantly changing. Actually, being a straight boy or girl is really not that desirable anymore.
If you feel weird during adolescence, it probably means you were born in the wrong body. Better get on some puberty blockers and cross sex-hormones as young as possible which will make changes in your body that will be hard if not impossible to reverse later on. Maybe you’ll want to go all the way, and cut off your perfectly functioning body parts so you can never have children or enjoy sex.
Girls, you can do anything boys can do and better except for those boys who play girls sports and kick your asses on the regular. But you have to be agreeable, good girls and go along with it if you want to fit into this society. I guess you could try being a boy, but you’ll still never be able to compete with them even on testosterone, and your penis, should you choose to get one, will never work.
The voices coming from the screens they've been attached to since the sperm and egg stage would never mislead them, right?
But hey, keep voting for more government so we can have more awesome institutions like the FDA, CDC, NIH that will protect big pharma and the rest of the medical industrial complex at your expense.
Oh, and the politicians will keep giving more of your money to Ukraine to keep the war profits rolling in and keep you in fear, but you can feel good knowing you stand with Ukraine.
They’re also going to invade your privacy more via the alphabet soup of intelligence agencies that work hand and glove with tech and social media companies, but they are only there to protect you. If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about. For now.
Vote yourself more handouts like “free” college and healthcare, universal basic income, and reparations for people who were never slaves. Ironically, these programs will only end up making you more broke and effectively a slave to the system. BECAUSE MONEY IS NOT WEALTH AND NOTHING IS FREE!
Is it any wonder why Millennials and Gen Zs seem depressed and confused? Between the made up catastrophes and the real problems they face, it’s understandable why they are so damned frustrated and confused.
Millenials, and Gen Zs in particular, are the most gaslit generations in the history of this country and perhaps in the history of human kind. I’m not a betting man but my guess is that the United States of America will cease to exist, at least in its current configuration. Nothing lasts forever and neither will this experiment.
We are in the middle of a Fourth Turning so be prepared for more chaos. However, I do have hope for the future.
MY HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
I recently had to travel for work, and on the flight to California I was seated next to a 26 year old man who has a vastly different outlook and perspective than many others, if not most, in his generation.
He harbored what many in this country, mostly on the left it seems, would view as right wing nationalism although he is not right wing. He just happens to have a deep love for the opportunity that this country still provides.
For the past five years, he has travelled non-stop across the world on a mission to interview the last of the surviving World War II veterans. While we can debate the merits of the U.S. entering the war and whether this was actually the “Greatest Generation”, we can agree that this generation as a whole had pride in being American and were willing to make incredible sacrifices to protect what they held dear.
Many of these Americans who fought in World War II were first or second generation Americans whose parents and grandparents came here to make better lives for themselves and their families. They were willing to die in order to protect this opportunity for others.
This young man started this project in high school when he met with some WWII vets in a nursing home. He was so impressed by their stories that he decided to make it his mission to capture their stories, and share them with others so we don’t forget the horrors of war and what was sacrificed.
Interestingly, this young man has much in common with, and identifies with many of the soldiers who went off to fight in WWII. You see, Rishi Sharma is a first generation American. His parents came to the United States from India to make a better life for themselves and their future family.
He sees what probably 95% of the rest of his generation can’t see. He sees that they are taking everything for granted, and that it isn’t a given we’ll retain the rights that allow them to be as selfish, narcissistic, and divided as they are at the moment. There will come a time when the shit really hits the fan. He is trying to prevent that and change the attitudes that younger generations currently possess.
While I appreciate his optimism that we can turn the tide, in my view the system must collapse just as they have throughout history. However, what can rise from the ashes may well be the next United States of America, but it won’t come without some pain and upheaval.
My hope is that Rishi and others like him rise up and become the voices that can lay the groundwork for a much brighter future. I would highly encourage you to check out his work at https://rememberww2.org/ and consider supporting his efforts.