The Real Struggles of Gen Z

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They say that hard times create strong men, so are these current times hard times? And is Gen Z a generation of strong men? It's clear generation z has real struggles, and unique problems unfaced by recent past generations, but gen-z and their challenges need to be explained, because they are not what you think. Is generation-z actually hopeless?

#genz #culture #politics

[MonsieurDean]

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[TurtleChad]

It's hard to stay optimistic when you see a world full of problems and the problems are intentional...

[kkvv]

It's like in Victoria 3. Low standarts of living don't radicalize people, lowering standards do.

[dakotadurham]

TL;DR: “I know things are bad right now fam, but it’s gonna get a lot worse”

[get_krinky]

One of the things a lot of us grew up without is a present father. Something I picked up was, "become the father you needed growing up" and, that's helped motivate me.

[_Devil]

>Be Gen Z
>Always get told to conform and suppress creativity, unless your boss can make money off of it
>Have housing prices be so high that ownership is completely out of the question and you're forced to stay in your moms basement
>People constantly get rich off of doing stupid shit or just looking pretty, meanwhile you work your ass off and get nowhere
>Get no representation in the Government
>Be blamed for everything when it goes wrong (but be exploited by the ruling class when things go right)
>Not allowed to complain, always expected to take it and enjoy it

Yeah. It's a real mystery why Gen Z is struggling and radicalized.

[Befreie_mich]

It's a never ending cycle of ignorance and irresponsibility.

[stanisawzokiewski]

I litteraly wrote this under a video where Asmongold is caling Gen Z lazy and stupid. I'll repost here:
Its not exactly our fault.
Henry Ford started making cars by disassembling machines and putting them back together. When he had enough practice he started making his own cars.
Guess what?
Its illegal to disassemble most phones. When you buy them you have to agree to a contract that forbids you from modifying it. Or even repairing it in any store that doesnt belong to the phones parent company.
I cant be Henry Ford becouse im not allowed to be.

And its not just mechanics, the programs too.
At the beggining of computer technology most programs where open source and if you owned it you could modify it, look at its workings etc.
Most programs these days operate as apps, you cant look inside them, you cant access command panels, you cant modify them. And the interactivity is dumbed down.

Its not my fault that the first computer i got was when i was 18, its not my fault that my mom only wanted apple products. Its not my fault that i had an iphone (passed down from my mom when she got a newer one).

I learned to swim at the age of 4 and by the time i was in elementary school i was competing at state level.
How?
1- there are pools where i live
2- my grandfather knew how to and wanted me to know how to
3- i was taught gradually the basics how to do the movements first, then doing them in the water, then holding my breath, then learning from a proffesional coach, then finnaly competing as a junior athlete.
4 when my grandpa believed i knew enough, he would throw me overboard at the center of the lake.

Imagine if you skip all that and go straight to the lake.
You would drown.

Gen Z has this situation with computer technology.
To use the swimming analogy, imagine sailing on a boat from before you can remember, but never swimming with your arms and legs. Suddenly you get thrown overboard and as you drown people call you lazy and stupid: "how can you not know how to swim when you spend all the time on a boat?"

And it applies to many other things.

[bobisconsumed]

The problem with all Gens is that they're too idealistic, ideological. Zoomers may be idealistic ( the Trad Life, Red Pill, and woke stuff), but there is some emergent light of pragmatism in our generation. Instead of asking what society should be some Gen Z's are starting to ask what society is.

[Kodeb]

One thing that helps me stay motivated is to think more about my future than my present. If I start feeling laziness creeping in because I need to study or I need to do manual labor, instead of thinking about how hard that's going to be, I think about how if I do these things now I'll live a better life in the future.

[Navinor]

As an older millenial who grew up in the former soviet union i saw an empire crumbling down first hand.

There are many factors involved for declining of an empire but the biggest problem aside from bad leadership is simply apathy of the people who are part of this declining empire.

I don't have the feeling gen Z is apathetic. Quite the opposite Gen Z is rather radical. One of the biggest problems of gen Z is the fact they are a very small generation and they can't overrule the gerotontocracy because they are simply such a small generation.

But as mentioned in the video here radicalisation without the right actions and pragmatism leads to nothing but suffering.

But i still can understand why Gen Z is so furious when it comes to the previous generations especially boomers.

It is like all the generations before them got a birthday cake on their birthday but Gen Z is "allowed" to eat the wooden table the cake is presented on.

[adamgadbaw]

The issue isn't that people don't want the hard labor jobs, the problem is the hard labor jobs don't pay what they used to and the office/tech jobs make obscene money for pretending to work. No one wants to sweat their balls off in the dirt for 80 hours a week to not even afford to buy a house. If you can't afford a house you can't put your roots down to start a family.

[dylanbuchanan]

I agree. Our problem is not that we’re in bad times, it’s that our lives are so luxurious that the population has atrophied both mentally and physically. We’re not oppressed, we’re spoiled.

[TheStickCollector]

How many young men actually have the guts to become great men though?

[Wendeta-hqcp]

The illusion of strength is, in my view, a consequence of the "you're special, you will do great" promises.

[LiamSGue]

I agree that economically we’re just in “inconvenient times.” However, culturally speaking, we are arguably in the worst time in American history. Hookup culture, pr0n, the LGBT movement, abortion, social media addiction, etc. are all things that maybe previous generations fought individually or intermittently, but there are very few countries which have experienced all of these at once. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Weimar Germany. However, that doesn’t mean Gen Z isn’t responsible. We are in as much as we continue to tolerate that which runs contrary to our cultural norms.

[crazeelazee]

The problem isn't that things today are hard when compared to the rest of history but that every day is worse than the last. People can get through tough times when there's hope that things will get better, but all my generation knows is decline.

[JanosBanics]

Hard Slavs create hard times which create more hard Slavs which create more hard Slavs who

[humansustainability]

I'm GenX and I've felt that entire GenZ list for my entire life.
The silent gen and BBrs were supposed to be the 'strong generations' because they dragged themselves out of a depression and a couple of big wars. I would assert that these accomplishments and the generation(s) as a whole were subverted by industrialization, globalization and very bad policies implemented by them!
Our leaders are mostly BBrs and that is just making a bad situation worse. We need some Xrs and Yrs in our politics and let the strong generations of X and Y help the Zs in this terrible system that the BBrs have created.
I don't want to point fingers and be divisive but the GenZ today have been handed a pile of shit and are told if they don't like eating it they are just complainers. I call BS.

[cjvoerman]

Oh, God. Z’s gone from talking about geopolitics to social politics.

But seriously, everything you’ve said is 100% true. The isolationism of Gen Z is why Gen Z, more than any other generation alive, is turning to religion, specifically High Church settings (Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, etc.). They want to be part of something bigger than themselves, something that pushes them to be better. Ironically, older Gen Z-ers want a struggle, whether it’s manual labor or, hell, even war. Gen Z romanticizes the overcoming of obstacles (that’s where you say we need more pragmatism to which I agree). Yes, “get the damn thing done.”