Why are Millennials Becoming Hobbits?
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Welcome back to our channel! In today's video, we're talking about an unexpected shift happening among millennials - we're turning into hobbits! And that might not be as strange as it sounds. Join me as we unpack this intriguing transition and what it might mean for our generation.
This video covers:
✅ The unexpected transition of millennials into a more peaceful, "hobbit" lifestyle.
✅ How a love for gardening and the quiet country life is taking over the rush for mid-life crises.
✅ A discussion on the political pipeline that's trying to co-opt our peaceful vibes.
✅ Why it's important to be mindful of these changes and how to avoid the pitfalls of politicization.
If you're a millennial, or just interested in the cultural shifts of generations, this video is for you! We'll chat about everything from gardening to politics, country living to city-dwelling skepticism.
This video is was edited with Gling AI! www.gling.ai/
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I had my crises in my early 30s, now I'm just vibin'
(but still advocating for walkable, midrise, mixed-use urban redevelopment, so I can live in a small, affordable apartment with a community garden, and not need to own a car)
THEYRE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO-
I'm 35 and the ideal 'night out' is an early bird special at 4-5pm at a favorite restaurant before GOING HOME and enjoying my evening.
I can't ever have country living, that's simply out of reach. I have however just bought my own home and installed a heavy duty solar panel & battery system. Not just for environmental reasons, but having something that *works for me* and not have yet another company try and fleece me for all the money they can get away with.
I'm tired of endless consumerism I suppose. Growth over people etc.
I do have a garden in this new place, maybe I'll look into some sort of greenhouse and actually develop a green thumb? (Am in the UK so need a bit more prep for all the rain lol)
there's a lot of practical non-paranoid reasons for self-sufficiency including like... natural disaster preparedness, lowering grocery bill, resiliency to the normal ebb and flow of the markets, etc... I think that boosting points like those can help edge out the paranoia, or at least drown those voices out
i'm wondering if our mid-life crises are just being postponed to like... 50 or 60... since we're supposed to be living longer (apparently???)???.
really excited to see what happens on my 50th or 60th. hoping for a total meltdown or tantrum. total catharsis.
for real, the granola-to-fascist pipeline is a thing!
I've felt like I've been dying since I was 17 soooo... 🤷♀️ Yeah getting into my 30's, while I'm wrestling with the loss of relevance to mainstream culture, I am also finding myself yearning for a quiet cabin in a snowy place with functioning Internet, a fire, a dog and a person I can share that comfort with. Like, that is the sun of my ambitions lol.
This is very much relatable
Remember kids, when u cottagecore to avoid The Trads
In fact, avoid the trads in general. ;)
Happy Birthday🎉🎉🎉
Krimm tomatoes. They have a wonderful saltiness to them. Keep up the good work, Nana
I’m doing Cherokee purple, myself 🍅
Oh dude, I was so getting into that one while I worked! I wish it was longer!
Looks like I'll have to run through your videos now :)
Yay for Tauruses (turned 40 two weeks ago)
I'm close to your age and about the only thing I'm mourning about my age is my joints aging faster than the rest
Grumpy Gen X here - I lived for a number of years in the very left-wing hippy enclave of Santa Cruz, CA, and over the past 8 years have been hearing horror stories from my friends who still live there* about how their local food co-op or yoga studio or (in a few cases) alternative health facility have become hotspots for QAnon and pro-Trump BS. Some of them have begun seeing that the various conspiracy theories that were very common at these places in the 90s and early 2000s (when they tended to represent worries over corporations were easily co-opted by the far right, and probably were never as silly and harmless as they seemed.
I am with you on not having the birthday dread - my age never bothered me, and I never had the mid-life crisis. I have, however, found myself bothered by age-related changes to my physical abilities (especially now that I am in the second half of my 40s), but that’s about a tangible loss, not an arbitrary number.
the age-related crises never really hit me - I might be bummed when I failed to meet a goal by a particular point in my life, but I also realized that it was an arbitrary timeline and just got on with things.
*I no longer live in Santa Cruz because, despite having a decent-paying career, I got priced out. However, I didn’t “flee California”, I just moved to another city in California, where everything is more affordable. The Bay Area and Los Angeles, and their associated ridiculous cost of living, only occupy a small portion of California’s geography. The rest of it is much less costly
We don't have midlife crises because our entire adult lives have been crises.
I now have "Everyday's great at your Junes!" stuck in my head.
Oh well, at least they make Nanako happy.
Hobbits are neighborly and generous. They work hard, but only at the things they love to do. They have a long memory for kindness and forget slights quickly. Hobbits _live_ in holes, they don't _hide_ in them. Basically they're the opposite of 21st century America, and on that basis it's hard not to see the appeal.
Also, can we discuss the Gen-X erasure in this video!? The Baby Boom was almost a hundred years ago! A bunch of stuff happened in between! Cool stuff, like hip hop, and Nintendo!
"Larry, I'm on DuckTales"
the boomer mid-life crisis thing has always been a little funny to me, and pairs well with their absolute terror and disgust of age itself and being reminded of aging - for a generation that sold their souls to the capitalist grind, they sure do hate being reminded of our limited time on this planet and how maybe we should be doing something more gratifying with it. (for the generation obsessed with "contributing to society" they sure do hate how millennials are driven by defining that contribution rather than mistaking the profit motive for it)
but yeah, i expect that we're less prone to specific birthday horror because we live with a much more conscious and pervasive existential dread, more metacognition and morbid humor, etc. even before i understood what exactly i meant by it i used to say, "i'm not afraid of *being* old, that sounds fine, but i'd like to do that without the dying part for at least a while longer than i get." and i stand by that. i want to put off not existing for as long as i am able to, and i'm bitter and frustrated that we haven't bothered to build a world where we do that, or where we seem to care about making those short spans we're here more comfortable and more fun for everyone. :/
It's really hard to separate vibes from values. Everything we perceive and believe gets painted with a vibe (affect). There have been studies that prove this empirically.
Not to mention Tolkien's conservative (small 'c') views and hobbits being the author's surrogate means that all the "living on the land" vibes being vulnerable to red-pilling is no coincidence.
I get that solarpunk is a different ideology, and maybe that's why we need to step away from the frameworks built by white men who were traumatized by the horrors of hyper-industrialized total warfare of World War 1.
Hobbit History 👨🌾
Solarpunk Future ☀️
I'm in my mid twenties, not to make anyone feel bad, and I've felt like I've had multiple crises due to society's obsession with youth and having success as young as possible. I think I'm over that but my actual born during the baby boom mom sure isn't. But she also laments not being a millionaire by now feeling extremely jaded society failed her.
And now I sort of just feel lost in a miasma of despair. In a world where grifters are everywhere, politicians won't listen or care about people, and everywhere being too expensive or unsafe to live in. I just lack the hope of having a brand new start somewhere or long term goals really. Great video!
5:40 are you talking about a pastoral/trad wife to libertarian conservative pipeline 🤔
Yes! You can’t wear a peasant skirt around these parts without the hucksters finding you!
Gonna have to push back on being a hobbit. I only have 3 meals a day.
2:52 there straight up is a Swedish reality show called "Farmen" about well... staying on a farm (and doing _some_ kind of elimination games I have no idea of). I have never seen even an episode so the only other thing I can tell you is that the most famous competitor was "Naken-Janne", a nudist who walked around naked the whole season.
I would watch the hell out of that
Yeah, what's up with the political aspect of this cottagecore stuff? White lesbians seem to be really into it now, and (as a White lesbian) I have mixed feelings about it.
You can make a lenseless monocle by poking and looking through a needle hole. Business cards are good for it
Homes in the country are cheap, at least around where I live in the West, its just that no one wants to have to drive 2 hours to get to a real store or be surrounded by gun toting lunatics with 'Trump 2024, The Revenge Tour' bumper stickers on their trucks in an area with a Sheriff who will gladly sweep your murder under the rug. Also most people need to live where their are jobs, and there are very few jobs you can do from the middle of nowhere.
So true. And the middle nowhere is often hours away from friends and family. Which increases the fracturing of communities more and more.
wait for your early-mid 40's lol
Looking forward to it 😎
Me: Becoming like Hobbits. WTF is she talking about? This video probably isn't relevant to me since I don't even know how Hobbits live.
Mags: All of my friends are gardening.
Me: Fuck.
So umm... you want to get some free seeds to help bees? You can find them online by go ogling since youtube won't allow links. I also have articles about how useless lawns are, and why you should get rid of them if you don't have to deal with HOA.
Welcome, Dino Gamshee. 🥔
Not to be toxic but we get it, you get to enjoy your mid 20's without any responsibilities probably and then had a baby before the sadness of childlessness really set in. Well good luck avoiding the misery of old age at least assuming civilisation lasts that long.
😂😂😂 what the shit, dude
@@MagdalenRose Are you saying I'm wrong?
I’m sorry your life is so shitty that you felt the need to bring someone down to your level. I hope it gets better dude
@@futuredirector999 The lengthening of childhood (economically speaking) into late teens/early 20's is a verifiable fact. The increasing average age of first childbirth is a fact. Mid-life crises happen because people don't want to face up to the fact that they are getting old and cannot live their lives a second time. The point is, Millennials are not different to Boomers because of "values" or whatever, and they have nothing in common with the Silent Generation for whom the average age of childbirth was declining and who grew up in a highly unionised, postwar-consensus economy. The GI Generation might be a better fit but not by much. This has nothing to do with my life lol, and I honestly don't get what you dislike about my original comment - how is reminding people of how little productive time they have left is a bad thing? I predict a widespread millennial late-life crisis around age 55.
@@jimcrelm9478 still choosing to be miserable I see. That’s your choice I guess