Im a millenial and I don't act anything like that. I also didn't go to college, I went to a trade school because I'm smart enough to understand that if I want peoples money, I needed to be useful.
2 yr welding degree. My teacher would kick you out of class for bringing in cell phones. And the only way we could get off drugs was to change your faces and places. He constantly told us that.
Keep telling kids they are: A) nothing but random cells that have no purpose B) the greatest thing since Jesus C) they matter more than others See the confusion possibilities when both A and C are offered?
Joseph Alvarez and I’m proud of you. Sharpen your mind for the NPC slogans and lack of knowledge. Learn to talk calmly and use short words in short sentences like explaining to an 8 year old.
@@Daniel-os2fu my 893 friends seems to agreed with me :), in fact, it seems that a whole generation agreed. Capitalism and conservatives is dead soon ^^
They are so unhappy because they believe they know everything. What is the purpose of living when you know everything. I am 87 years old with a post-graduate education and I learn something new everyday. Life is beautiful and I look forward to the next 20 years.
@@anthonygarcia3097 That's pretty true. A lot of these kids don't spend any time with someone older and wiser than themselves, which I think is a shame. Among my peers, I look pretty smart. Put me with an older person, and I look dumb. My peers really couldn't tell me that most problems are temporary, because they didn't really know that themselves. Not in the same way someone 10 or 20 years older than myself would know.
@@TheRisky9 When I was 20 years old, all my friends were at least 30 to 40 years old. There is little you can learn from someone of your own age. Now that I am 87 I continue to listen to what my elders have to say.
Knowles: “I like your cape” “It’s a flag” Knowles: “What flag is it?” “Soviet flag” Knowles: “K, I take it back” This is pure comedy. These liberals are insane.
I don't find the Soviet flag funny 😡 I don't understand why all these Americans think that communism is the ideal. So idiotic and insulting to the millions of people who died under communistic regimes.
These asswipes should watch Soviet story documentary, which is on youtube: Trailer: ruclips.net/video/EYuRKy0HKK8/видео.html Glenn beck called it "Scared straight for communists".
Kiel Hawkins is right. Great job helping your child take responsibility! I am certainly no perfect parent. There’s hard work to do at all times as a dad. A main cause of problems for kids/millennials has been enabling them. This comes from a good heart but ends up hurting them in the long run. I can’t do all the heavy lifting for my kids. They have to learn on their own. The easy thing would be to just give them what they want but it instills no learning or value.
Wages are increasing, specifically the minimum wage. but this isn't a good thing. Wages are a price, the price of labor. So it follows that if wages are increasing, this is monetary inflation at work. Prices are rising.
c3p O the government increase artificially the value of work. Everyone must be paid at least à certain amount. If your productivity is below that amount your out of work. If your work is not valuable enough to be worth minimum wage, like sweeping the floor, your job is cut. You might be replaced by à machine.
I agree, the minimum wage is artificial and people are being priced out of the market. Wages keep going up, the minimum wage here in san francisco is 15.00. This is inflation at work. @@sylvestregagnon5681
If owned a business, I'd take one look at their birthday listed or which box they checked under the sex on the application and throw it right in the shredder. @Peter Bond
Not in college or college educated. Girl broke up with me said. I don't want to be on welfare and pregnant. 7 years later. I own house 3 cars married, w kids. She's on welfare and pregnant. Guess college didn't teach much.
JOMFSE The amount of kids dont reflect the amount of wealth. Poor people have kids poor people dont have cars. Its a bad philosophy but its true. His sub conscience was correctly written.
@shortbuspileup telling seems to be a thing this decade. Couldn't Argue that. This young boy may have perhaps. Though my gut feeling he wasn't "trolling".
@shortbuspileup he wasnt trolling. he showed that he wasnt listening well and not just the word "like" but the way he used it with that natural sounding tone
Guys aren't marrying women because feminism tells women to cheat. No guy with any self respect is going to put a ring on a woman that isn't faithful to him. Plus the divorce courts are to slanted in the woman's favor. Until these things change, marriage rates will continue to decline......and that's what the Leftists wanted all along. It's easier to control a population with no family unity.
What are you talking about. Those who abide by the family unit are extremely predictable and that means they are easy to manipulate and excellent consumers. Those that reject the family are completly unpredictable.
@@Theseus9-cl7ol Really? Those that follow the path of the family are very predictable. Birth > School > College > Work > Breed > Retire > Die. They get mortgages, cars, furniture, appliances, children items, vacations, retirement plans, wage slaves, college fees etc etc. So very predictable and excellent consumers. I am unpredictable and i enjoy every minute of life.
I'm a 26 year old millennial. I was in middle school (7th grade) in about 2004, just a couple years after 9/11. I remember in my history class, we studied Islam for almost 4 months straight. I couldn't understand why we spent so much time on that one religion. The school actually invited a couple of Muslim women, dressed in full body covers and hijabs, to come speak to the students about the religion of Islam and how peaceful it is. I kid you not. Even at 12 years old I was skeptical the entire time. It was real liberal indoctrination trying to entice a bunch of 12 year olds to become curious about a religion that conveniently had just murdered 3,000 people several years prior. When I look back on that "history lesson" I am disgusted. This happened at Sutter Middle School in Sacramento, CA.
You are 26 years old. That means you are the eldest of GEN Z you fucking liberal mutant. We CONSERVATIVE Millennials are tired of your bitch-ass PAMPERED generations getting us blamed for all that YOU do!
I feel your pain. Check this out. I went to middle school (it was called junior high) in 1973 in Austin TX. My school was under order to have forced bussing of kids from the East side (poor communities, blacks & Hispanics) even though my middle class neighborhood was already naturally integrated. This was part of the reason that all the 7th grade girls were rounded up into the cafeteria for "sex education" by Planned Parenthood feminists. I remember exactly those 70's maxi skirts they were wearing. After the cheesy films on std's (called VD back then) we got the BIG SPEECH on the REAL reason why they were there. Remember that in general it was a much more innocent time. I was inexperienced with boys as were all of my friends. My most scandalous fantasy was my crush looking my way! Nothing past that, not even holding hands. Sooooo....when those liberal wackos started in on how easy it would be for us to get abortions it totally freaked me out! There were zero pregnant girls in middle school and just the odd one here & there in high school.They would just disappear for awhile then return amidst whispering about how immoral she was. My point is it blew my mind. My friends and I started having discussions about "should we be doing it already? " "is something wrong with us if we aren't?" " Do you know anyone who has? ". This was when that ridiculous Roe vs Wade arose and most people don't even realize the scandals behind the careerest attorneys pushing it just to make a name for themselves, manipulating witnesses, etc. It never should have happened. It was never about achieving any fairness for women. But I digress.it all started way back. Lots of those girls are moms now propagandizing their modern day Millennial daughters.
Millennials went through a public education system that amounts to little more than daycare then were thrown into the deep end of a recession. Most of us had our first experience with capitalism at a time when the economy was on life support and deception and exploitation was what kept a business afloat. Now we work temporary jobs doing whatever we can get because the cost of living is high and most of us have no savings and no hope of ever having any. As we are constantly reminded, life milestones like owning a house, having a career, or supporting a family are distant dreams for us. It's not a surprise that millennials are anxious and depressed, and there is more to it than a simple lack of discipline. Most of us are trying to save up just to afford boots, and the straps are sold separately.
+SkuzzelB8 Shut the fuck up. No one cares. Everyone knows the obvious truth. Boomers fucked everything into a worse state than when they found it. Millennials are expected to do the same things with worse tools, and get chastised when they report that it's impossible. Stop disagreeing with people who are right. It's embarrassing.
@@SkuzzelB8 You seem to know a lot about me from a youtube comment. My "life's path" is strikingly similar to your own, actually. I've got news, you can thank Trump's tax cuts for your 15/hr. Wages went up overnight, but I wouldn't pat myself on the back just yet if I were you. Save while you can because the windfall is temporary.
As a retired Clinical Psychotherapist who Specialised in PTSD Treatment, I also suffered with it Severely. I got mine overseas, the old-fashioned way, but my training and practising experience opened my eyes. PTSD is very much in the eye of the beholder. You don't need to be a veteran to get it, nor do you need to be abused. In fact, the person with the highest degree of PTSD to have been studied was a young American woman who was in a minor car accident where no one was injured. It is the symptom diagnosis and severity that determines the condition.
They can't think face to face, it's not a phone. People who spend 90% of their time communicating in tweets and text messages have difficulty putting a complete sentence together. In other words, they are idiots.
Ah! Thank you. So many of these things are really crystallizing for me lately and this helps a lot! So painfully true. The misery is palpable and evident in every place ( mostly online, because I moved the hell away from Los Angeles 8 years ago 🙏🏻) I go. Every corner of the Internet is teeming with ALL of these symptoms of dissolving language, vanishing reason and open minds slamming shut.
anni dee well put. My wife was from LA when I met her. She was on these psychotropic drugs, full of anxiety and sadness. She had a good heart, but the culture was so toxic that it was buried under the vanity and apathy common there. It took years and lots of hard work for her to find true happiness, and my opinion was that it got better when she moved out here to the country. There’s nothing so powerful as a man and a woman working as a team, and conscious or each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
I'm Buddhist (formerly catholic).I realized this misery and it seems to be associated with No faith, no life investigation,no groups activities for growth, ie. no religion.
I am almost 70 and it took me years, decades to really be an adult.' I just started paying attention to the political scene about 3 years ago, after voting Dem like a robot all my adult life.
Steph J Same here, pretty much. When laws became ridiculous I started going NO this won’t do. Mom was a dem, Dad was not. All us kids became good little dems and I used to be proud they never made us go to church. So we all tried everything, sis and bro did Buddhism, Judaism, Wicca, no cults 😊Anyway, end ramble
I feel like millennials (I’ve been guilty of this myself as I look back) find some sense of relief or vindication when they can claim to be a part of a group that’s been “victimized” because, in all honesty, most of us don’t have a clue what it’s like to suffer through the struggles of the past. We came up in the days of excess in the 80s and 90s. Having said that, Michael was born the same year as myself..but we definitely are millennials and guilty of many of these things. Having said that... I think he’s more or less referring to younger millennials (born in mid-nineties) and gen z. Idk. Or he’s just referring to the children of liberals haha. Either way, my brother was born in ‘94 and sometimes I feel like I’m ancient when he and I talk about our worldview. The lack of awareness outside the self, the lack of masculinity, the entitlement..agh Last thing-the guy citing Locke and Hobbes as his justification that he’s educated and understands the complexities of the day are hilarious 😂
They’re miserable because they were promised the World and didn’t get it. They were taught one way growing up and when they had go into the real world, it was a real eye opener for them.
The term millennial is made up. Don't fall into the trap that just because you where born in the same time period as others means that everything said about "millennials" applies to you. It doesn't, be you're own person, don't let others define you.
Vaccines, GMOs, oversexualization & other toxic messages in the media, and being slaves to the screen & depraved entertainment instead of playing in the fresh air etc.
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Because our parents crashed the housing market, increased college costs by 10x, stagnated wage increases, then call us entitled when we have to work 60+ hours a week to afford a 1 bedroom apartment when they were able to buy a house and start a family with unskilled labor at age 24 while the wife stayed home with the kids?
+PhilFry Dude, I have a manual labor job and I found it by SHEER CHANCE through an obscure connection my mom had. I have no idea how I would've found this fucking job otherwise. I spent years unemployed. It's a shitshow out there, stop lying to people.
@@GreenGearMood No, it's not easy for very many.And, even they will have to face tough times in the future.Trying to one-up somebody for your suffering is silly. And look how hostile and disrespectful you got.(Actually he was pretty sharp, too.lol) Easy, pardner.Bottom line is, anyone can be happy and prosperous here. If not, people wouldnt be coming here in droves .And none of these lefty radical mofos will LEAVE! They keep THREATENING to leave, but they never do! My situation is a bit different.I did get a good 'push-off' by going to the Peace Corps in the 70's.I've had my share of knocks, and knock down drag out situations, too.(mental and emotional, not physical.)My parenting was....'checkered' but i was always safe, always learning and I've always enjoyed working. Starting my own business at 70.
Well, the brutal work culture in japan is also partly to blame. A lot of people don't feel it's worthwhile to add the stress of a relationship to an already stressful life when chances are their work schedule is going to cause it to fail. Even after limiting the amount of mandatory overtie companies can force on workers, office workers are still occasionally dying from exhaustion or passing out on the street.
Thank you. This was real and true. I really liked the analysis on word choice like "adulting" and "i feel like", it's accurate and definitely has its rooting in the problems with relativism and lack of responsibility
This was a great speech very insightful. I'm a millennial and I consider myself one of the good ones, but there are some areas however minor that I see I can improve on.
I went to college as a millennial for computer science and got my masters. The difference is I got scholarships to cover it by doing well in high school and then i picked a major which is actually needed. College is useful for some careers but it is way over advertised as necessary.
I was, like, super convinced that the dude at 38:00 was like, trying to like, make fun of how Michael pointed out how millennials like, they like, they like to say like a lot. Do you like know what I mean?
Last comment because this video is so good. It really is the case that millennials do not read literature. The vast majority of humanities professors I have had will condense an entire book (from their unquestionable analysis) into a powerpoint, which would then be the content of one lecture! I actually went all of highschool without reading a book. It wasn't until my first year of college when I read Matthew Crawford's "The World Beyond Your Head" (perhaps the first author to predict the situation facing millenials now) that I had the eye-opening moment you're talking about. If it weren't for that book alone I would still be wandering around aimlessly. That was the one and only book I've read in a humanities class. The rest have been powerpoints of mostly Foucault and Derida.
Why are baby boomers so miserable? Why is Generation Z so miserable? Everyone is miserable. Each generation blames the next generation. Saying how one generation is miserable is a very broad stroke.
Mr Toast sorry. When I was 20-30-40 I was enjoying life. Youth was awesome! It only gets worse from here. If they can’t even enjoy youth..they’re in trouble.
The ones that need to hear this will never hear this and that's really sad. They'll simply click the thumbs down button and ignore this message in it's entirety.
I appreciated that dating question and discussion. I was dating a girl long-term and planning to marry her after college, but she decided to become part of the hookup culture instead. It’s good to know there’s still hope
I have 3 kids ranging from ages 26 to 30 and none of them live with me and their dad. Parents need to quit being so welcoming to them when they finish school. Lol
I agree that the "youth" feels lost but I disagree on one thing: Millenials have been to much of a scapegoat. 1* The consensus is that one is a millennial if born between 1977 and 1994; This means, anyone younger than 24 (in 2018) or older than 41 (in 2018) is not a millenial. 2* Most people enter college with 18 years of old and conclude it with 21 or 22. 3* A lot of college and school faculty members (teachers, professors, managers, ETC) have been born before 1977. 4* From this data, I can conclude that it is not accurate to point the finger (almost exclusively) at millenials when most of them have graduated already and those who are still in college, are seniors concluding their last year of their bachelor/master. It is evident that most college students and faculty members today aren't millennials. Edit: Some sources state that millenials range from 1981 to 1996 but my comments still apply in any case.
Who makes this shit up? I was born in '77 and was told I'm Gen X for years and years. Now I'm millenial? I am far older than the bratty whiners everyone is complaining about.
Guillermo Garraton Like, really?! Like that would drive me like nuts! Like, why do think they even like to say like, like so darned often?! Like I don’t like get it. Like, do you??! Like, by the way, I really like liked your like comment about like, and like how ridiculous it is like when idiots like AO, like C use a word so like much! (Like, what word like did you comment about? Like I kinda like forgot...) 🥴🤔🤔
Juliemedusa LOL!!! IKR! Like (😉), I wish I would have known that he had said it 15 times! I would have followed suit instead of doing 17 of them ! LOL!!!
@@salildeshpande7 I agree it is true. But the tone is glib. Look at the audience. By the end, they have practically shut down. He needed to give them something practical to do, organizations to join, a reading list ...something practical.
@@xtusvincit5230 I don't agree that his tone is either insincere or shallow. He speaks of what he believes and is very articulate about it. He was super kind to the kid with the rainbow flag on his shoulders at the end too. Just can't get to where you are with the issue you take with his tone...
I wonder why so many young people have no perspective of the hardships faced by previous generations? . As one who grew up in the seventies and eighties in Scotland, and remembers strikes, high unemployment, being not at school, not being able to tell anyone about mental health problems, people not being able to come out. Generation X and Baby Boomers tried to make the world a little more tolerant but now it has been taken to extremes. So many millennial are lovely, kind, decent people but to what extent will they have to carry the weight of their peers?
He said Millennials over use the word “like”. The first person to the mic used the word “like” literally 14 times! 😂 (Yes, I counted, and I may have missed a few).
At around 38 mins... I thought the person asking a question was trolling by say “like” every other word, since Knowles JUST discussed that......Turns out it was actually like just like the way, like his particular like verbal tick was like manifested in his speech.
He talked about how the majority of millennials didn’t study their religion and reject it, but that they’re ignorant to it. I’m proud to be one of the few who was extremely devout in my religion (non-denominational Christianity) having lead a few ministries ultimately to walk away from it. Something super ironic about that was it took me walking away from my religious beliefs that I grew up with to ultimately see the value in religion.
Short answer; they are taught to be entitled and expect everything from everyone, take what the things they like and have for granted, and to never be truly happy. The goals they seek stay far out of reach at all times, are unrealistic or nonproductive, while producing problems and turmoil whenever they seek to achieve them. As a bonus, honor and truth has lost nearly all value, so don't expect millennials to go through their lives in a way that benefits anyone but themselves a majority of the time.
@@peternygren3215 I'm talking about the people who expect someone else's labor to pay for their laziness. Free college, free housing, completely free medical, etc. Essentially the *opposite* of what you said. Nothing is free.
@@eliteteutonicknight1 My God, you truly are STUPID ... Hopefully I can WAKE YOU THE FUCK UP with this. You think Millennials are "liberals", do you? Okay. Many comments here claim that Gen Z begins in 1995 (they are wrong, Gen Z begins in 1993). But let's assume that 1995 is correct. This means that presently, the youngest Millennials are TWO YEARS REMOVED FROM COLLEGE. Which would mean that the Safe Spaces CURRENTLY on college campuses … are GEN Z. Which means that Steven Crowder's Change My Mind videos … are GEN Z … Which means that these talks in front of college campuses … are GEN Z. WHAT is fucking "conservative" about Gen Z and "liberal" about Millennials?!?!?! You mention "free college". In 2016, if we are to accept the 1995 standard, the YOUNGEST Millennials were seniors in college. Bernie's base was 18-23 years old, and he campaigned almost exclusively on "free college". HOW IN THE FUCK would "free college" benefit a generation THAT HAD ALREADY FUCKING GRADUATED?!?!? How fucking STUPID are you people?!?! YOU caused us to lose the House! YOU caused us a Republican Super-majority. How? Well, not only did youth not show up to vote in 2018 … THEY DIDN'T VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS, DID THEY??? Millennials are CONSERVATIVES. We are burying our Boomer parents at an alarming rate, because Obama"Care" is MURDERING THEM. We know that the Boomer platform and the democrats agenda is the SAME; to LEECH off the young, working poor! WE HATE democrats, but we are not voting for the Republicans who supposedly share our values in letting us KEEP OUR FUCKING MONEY!!! Why aren't we voting? Because you will not allow us a voice, and an opportunity to speak! ONLY TUCKER CARLSON is addressing this! You don't propose solutions to fix extreme rent, or the lack of housing development. You don't seem to want to address the problems feminism has had on marriage; instead, you want to bash men and tell them to ACT LIKE WOMEN by "manning up" and "pursuing". When it comes to REAL issues that would result in a Republican map like we have NEVER seen, so-called "conservative" Republicans only wish to MOCK we Millennials and equate us to the fucking democrats we OPENLY HATE!!! MILLENNIALS created the NPC meme, not Gen Z. Instead of believing this fucking BULLSHIT against my generation, why don't you instead fucking LISTEN to the LEGITIMATE CONCERNS of young people and the SENSIBLY CONSERVATIVE IDEAS he have to fix this fucking shit OVERNIGHT?!?!? Why not WELCOME US into the fucking fold?!?! There is ZERO attempt to even acknowledge that conservatives exist among Millennials, and absolutely ZERO outreach to show the FEW Millennials on the left that they actually SUPPORT capitalism. NAME ONE Millennial that likes taxes robbed from their paycheck, and agrees with the UNPAID INTERNSHIP!!! I VOTED straight red in 2018, like I have done EVERY year since 2008. WHY THE FUCK would my fellow Millennials vote for a fucking party that does not fucking want us? WAKE. THE FUCK. UP.
Short answer: They were taught zero valuable life skills by their inept, dumb parents who crashed the economy and replaced any semblance of an American culture and identity with meaningless hedonism, forced diversity and crony capitalism. They were told to get college degrees lest they work at McDonalds the rest of their life only to find themselves working at McDonalds regardless, only with tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt permanently hanging over their heads.
@@atonewiththedust I'd say even zero is being generous. At least at zero you would qualify as simply stupid. But with unnecessary courses that teach you to completely ignore reality and detriment your already lacking skills, it's worse than zero. ;)
To be honest, I was excpecting things to get ugly when the caped crusaders showed up, but I was pleasently surprised. they stuck out like sore thumbs but did not give any trouble
I'm a conservative republican who is a millennial and hate the majority of my generation for being so weak and stupid. It really does feel like being an adult amongst slow children sometimes.
@@IlluminaZero BINGO. Millennials are "entitled" because we want to be PAID for our labor … like TRUE CAPITALISTS. We do not endorse the COMMUNISM of having to "pay dues" for X amount of time before being granted permission to enjoy the fruits of our own labor. "Liberal". We are also perhaps the most pro-entrepreneurship generation ever, and cannot go more than 5 minutes without dreaming up some big plans for our own companies one day. "Liberal." There just simply is ZERO evidence that Millennials are anything but conservatives; feminism is our true cancer.
They were made of harder stuff but decided to raise their children to be lesser. So much for that - in order to look good to their kids - they had to nerf and weaken their own kids so they could brag about how much better they are to the younger generations that they fucked over.
I don't see more turning to Christ or marriage happening. It will continue to decline because of Leftist propaganda and control of the education systems. Prepare for the civil war to come in the near future. We won't be worried about marriage, we will be worried about surviving.
Marriage is a currently broken system where u can get out on a whim and the whamen will get half your shit and the wife will take the kids 80% of the time.
Well no one really has an answer for that because everyone's circumstance is different. "millenials" aren't miserable, PEOPLE are miserable. I'm a millenial that grew up with 7 other siblings. My father left my mother leaving me and my brothers and sisters to suffer financially. Financially my families income was below the poverty line. I'm 23 now and I work 40 hours a week to support what's left of my family(two of my brothers and mother). I have no college degree and I'm not lazy in the slightest. We live in a new era that the baby boomers just don't understand. Millenials have a variety of problems that need to be solved and it's gonna take time to figure things out.
Bullshit. Despite your anecdote no generation has ever had less obstacles or less to worry about. & that generates a particular combination of weakness & agression that will destroy the future. People are biologically programmed to overcome survival adversity (food, water, shelter, avoiding disease, fighting other tribes, dodging bears & shit). Western civilization has largely removed all that adversity from the human condition in a short time. Yet the instincts remain, & with no existential adversity left it turns out people will create crisis to overcome in their own minds because the human mind can't handle utopia....which is basically what life in western civilization has been for a few generations now. The destruction of utopian societies from within has been replicated time & again in scientific experiments using animals. It always ends the same. The 5th-8th generation animal living without survival level adversity (utopia) always goes nuts & destroys the society.
+ScottBroyles Stop confusing good technology with good civilization. Technology doesn't change the dating scene, it doesn't change divorce court, it doesn't change the economy we're currently in. Less obstacles? Stop talking about the practical and mundane issues. No one is disputing it's easier than ever to cure an illness or heat/cool a room. Fucking vapid moron.
@@GreenGearMood I'm the moron when you think technology doesn't change anything???? Not only does it change litterally everything, including everything you just said it doesn't, but it changes things so fast that it becomes impossible to know the long term impact it will have on humanity. Example. Access to porn. Anybody with any modern device at any time can watch porn. The timing of that technology is directly correlated with a massive drop in young people having sex & plummeting birthrates in the west. It's way easier to jack off to a billion hours of porn than go out & try to meet/impress somebody to potentially have sex with like everyone before had to. Not good. Example 2. Antibiotics. Still to this day handed out like Halloween candy despite the fact we're now learning that every time you take an Antibiotic it diminishes the effectiveness it has if you ever need it again, & the germs they're designed to kill are adapting faster than we can make new antibiotics to kill them. The likelihood of a pandemic that kills millions caused by a new superbug that wouldnt exist without our overuse of Antibiotics is almost a certainty.
+ScottBroyles Technology does change 'anything' but it doesn't change *everything.* You stupid, stupid douche. This is like saying you can fix all your problems with duct tape. *All* problems.
Jesus Christ, that second Person with a question who disagreed with him: Can a millennial make it through one, single sentence without saying, “like” unless they are legitimately describing a simile? If you are not comparing two or more things or you are not expressing favor toward a particular person or thing, “like“, has no place in whatever it is you’re trying to say
About the Christmas question at the end... We, in Germany still celebrate Advent. One month before Christmas, (which we celebrate on the evening of the 24th of December) We light a candle every sunday. Most people have an "Adventskranz" google it, it's pretty. People listen to X-mas music, bake cookies or do other seasonal stuff.
Feeling miserable is very common. Has nothing to do with when you were born. Learn to live with it and find something that inspires you to become a happier person. We all go through the same shit. Oh, and don't get caught up in all of this political BS tribalism. That's the true cancer.
Those people who disagreed gave me hope that not all leftist are idiots. They were able to actually articulate their points without shouting. That’s what we truly need is more people willing to engage in civil discourse.
I'm a millenial and none of this applies to me.. Sounds like an easy way out, but asking political commentators to not over generalize people and things seems more pointless than educating my peers. Have a good day.
“There are more than 2 genders” The people who actually state that are basically stating that everyone’s personality is slightly different and for some reason they think gender is personality rather than biological.
points to Americans having smart phones as reason they should shut up, and we have it so great. Well I missed the millennials smart phone hand out day evidently. And how many of those smart phones were in fact just given to them? Say we are so great materially yet wages have been loosing ground to inflation. Berates millennials for not getting out and paying their own rent, yet he'll happily allow foreign companies and Chinese billionaires of ill gotten often stolen wealth to buy up all said housing property and charge exorbitant rents that millennials have little other choice to pay when a billionaire buys all of it. Like I said all while making less dollar for dollar then prior generations. Oh and lets not forget about all the high paying jobs, free market idiots like him and Ben Shapiro destroyed in America by undercutting the workers and loosening all there protection so the rich could make a few extra billion bucks. And millennial's now are having less sex or access to sex then prior generations due to a variety of factors. Frankly knowing all the problems going on I'm surprised there aren't large scale riots and strikes, but then again these people gloss over a lot of those facts. I don't support the left at all but screw this crony capitalist, he sounds like he knows what he's talking about the the lay person but he has very little depth or substance or worse he knows and is just omitting all the facts that destroy his own message. And this guy has no clue to the break down of gender relations. Well lets see he refuses to acknowledge that millenials are making less money then prior generations, so he also would ignore the effect this has on people's sex lives. And if you think I'm being crass or rude about it honestly ask yourself how many women will date a guy that is average looking and poor? Fact is they don't much any more they would rather play the tinder game and have a one night stand with a 10/10 hot guy that would never settle for her, yet says all the right things to get into her pants, but she would never think to give the regular guy a chance or even if she does she's been with so many hotter guys that just stood her up or used her for sex, he's now uninspiring. And will only settle for the regular or average guy when time is running out and none of the hotter guys she dates will stick a ring on it. And how well will that marriage go? two people that only got together out of mutual desperation and harbor mutual resentment of each other. And this moron when pressed on the issue will just say it's their fault they just need to man up! They get paid crap, their fault, have to go to college to get a certification for every job that still doesn't pay much, their fault, exorbitant debt for getting said degree? their fault. Cant afford health care, their fault, Cant afford housing, their fault. This idiot is just saying to man up while sneakily stabbing them in the back and supporting many of the reasons that cause them to fail. Millennials aren't failing in a vacuum, they were screwed before they were born. Sure it's not as extreme as others had problems but the problems are still there and are big.
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I would be mad too if I got fleeced for $100k for college tuition and I graduated 10x dumber than when I started.
Joe M no one forced them to do it
Ozark Yeoman no, it’s not like that at all
@@astronautfarmer2358 yes it is
ha ha ha!!! exactly. by choice
Don't forget the growing burden of previous generations tax liabilities, unfunded/underfunded pensions/SS/Medicaid etc.
Im a millenial and I don't act anything like that. I also didn't go to college, I went to a trade school because I'm smart enough to understand that if I want peoples money, I needed to be useful.
Skipping college probably did the trick
2 yr welding degree. My teacher would kick you out of class for bringing in cell phones. And the only way we could get off drugs was to change your faces and places. He constantly told us that.
All those protest at trade schools
NO Millennial acts like this. These dumbfucks can’t keep Millennials and Gen Z apart! 😂😂😂
Dude, a wife “staying at home” to mooch off your “resources” is liberal as fuck ...
GROW A SACK and put her to work!
Hide-and-Seek doesn’t count.
Gen Z conservative!!! There are many more of us out here than you'd think. That being said, great speech and I agree with what you have to say.
Glad you're there Martina. Stay strong!
Good choice 👍
Most of Gen Z can’t stand Millennials. We are looking to you to clean up their mess. Good Luck! I have faith in you!
Same here!
Me too!
“The Left wants to keep you a child.”
🙌
same with blacks.Yhey want to keep us infantile (De man tryin' to keep us down.)
The left hates anyone who is popular and confident.
hahahah yeah true
@@joanketelby752 i disagree the left love Hollywood celebrities
@@beastmaster1858 Well Hollywood celebs act like kids
Keep telling kids they are:
A) nothing but random cells that have no purpose
B) the greatest thing since Jesus
C) they matter more than others
See the confusion possibilities when both A and C are offered?
chozen1956
Lol.
You don't matter.
Jesus is bad.
You matter.
I wonder about the ones who find out they have multiple aborted siblings.
Our purpose is to procreate and survive as a species that doesn't become extinct.
I'm gen z and I'm proud to be a conservative
Joseph Alvarez same here! 😄
Damn str8
In gen z i trust... My millennial generation is lost 😔 lol
Joseph Alvarez and I’m proud of you. Sharpen your mind for the NPC slogans and lack of knowledge. Learn to talk calmly and use short words in short sentences like explaining to an 8 year old.
@@Dude0000 thanks for the advice I am in my speech an debate club and model United Nations at my school to sharpen my skills and knowledge :)
Michael Knowles is a gift from the Lord
Facts!!!! He has inspired me so much!!!
Oof sounds like a cult lmao
@@charles-antoineturcotte7608 yeahh nobody agrees with you bud
@@Daniel-os2fu my 893 friends seems to agreed with me :), in fact, it seems that a whole generation agreed. Capitalism and conservatives is dead soon ^^
@@charles-antoineturcotte7608 nah fam
They are so unhappy because they think they believe in Everything, but actually believe in Nothing.
I believe everything is nothing
They are so unhappy because they believe they know everything. What is the purpose of living
when you know everything. I am 87 years old with a post-graduate education and I learn something new everyday. Life is beautiful and I look forward to the next 20 years.
@@anthonygarcia3097 That's pretty true. A lot of these kids don't spend any time with someone older and wiser than themselves, which I think is a shame. Among my peers, I look pretty smart. Put me with an older person, and I look dumb. My peers really couldn't tell me that most problems are temporary, because they didn't really know that themselves. Not in the same way someone 10 or 20 years older than myself would know.
@@TheRisky9 When I was 20 years old, all my friends were at least 30 to 40 years old. There is little you can learn from someone of your own age.
Now that I am 87 I continue to listen to what my elders have to say.
Knowles: “I like your cape”
“It’s a flag”
Knowles: “What flag is it?”
“Soviet flag”
Knowles: “K, I take it back”
This is pure comedy. These liberals are insane.
I don't find the Soviet flag funny 😡
I don't understand why all these Americans think that communism is the ideal. So idiotic and insulting to the millions of people who died under communistic regimes.
These asswipes should watch Soviet story documentary, which is on youtube:
Trailer: ruclips.net/video/EYuRKy0HKK8/видео.html
Glenn beck called it "Scared straight for communists".
@@larissadueck2643 you got to find the humor in the grand plan for a utopia leading to distopia.
too many participation medals, timeouts, safe spaces and "you're special" talks and look what happened
Lol I just had to have the " no one owes you anything in this life, especially not mommy and daddy" talk with my 7 year old.
Kiel Hawkins is right. Great job helping your child take responsibility! I am certainly no perfect parent. There’s hard work to do at all times as a dad.
A main cause of problems for kids/millennials has been enabling them. This comes from a good heart but ends up hurting them in the long run. I can’t do all the heavy lifting for my kids. They have to learn on their own. The easy thing would be to just give them what they want but it instills no learning or value.
So true.
Millennials are upset because they’ve been priced out of the market. Wages are stagnant, real estate has skyrocketed, and college debt is ridiculous.
+SLYDOG
We're not out of the woods yet, buddo.
@bizkitgto it started in the 80's and hasn't improved since.
Wages are increasing, specifically the minimum wage. but this isn't a good thing. Wages are a price, the price of labor. So it follows that if wages are increasing, this is monetary inflation at work. Prices are rising.
c3p O the government increase artificially the value of work. Everyone must be paid at least à certain amount. If your productivity is below that amount your out of work. If your work is not valuable enough to be worth minimum wage, like sweeping the floor, your job is cut. You might be replaced by à machine.
I agree, the minimum wage is artificial and people are being priced out of the market. Wages keep going up, the minimum wage here in san francisco is 15.00. This is inflation at work. @@sylvestregagnon5681
I was applying for next semester classes and while reading the class catalog. I saw gender studies, I went oh no.
Same bro
ThePotatoArmy Indeed and long live the Potato gods
I would talk the class job to totally piss off the teacher every day wear Trump stuff and be a distraction in class.
If owned a business, I'd take one look at their birthday listed or which box they checked under the sex on the application and throw it right in the shredder. @Peter Bond
I tell people to research.Start going to Prager and other small, conservative schools.
Not in college or college educated. Girl broke up with me said. I don't want to be on welfare and pregnant. 7 years later. I own house 3 cars married, w kids. She's on welfare and pregnant. Guess college didn't teach much.
Y
You listed how many cars but not how many kids :'(
JOMFSE The amount of kids dont reflect the amount of wealth. Poor people have kids poor people dont have cars. Its a bad philosophy but its true. His sub conscience was correctly written.
Wow.
Literally none of this ever happened
38:00 "Like" 14 times in 30 seconds. That averages almost (like) a like every 2 seconds.
@shortbuspileup telling seems to be a thing this decade. Couldn't Argue that. This young boy may have perhaps. Though my gut feeling he wasn't "trolling".
Limited vocabulary...
It was impressive to be sure.
yessssssssssss
@shortbuspileup he wasnt trolling. he showed that he wasnt listening well and not just the word "like" but the way he used it with that natural sounding tone
Guys aren't marrying women because feminism tells women to cheat. No guy with any self respect is going to put a ring on a woman that isn't faithful to him. Plus the divorce courts are to slanted in the woman's favor. Until these things change, marriage rates will continue to decline......and that's what the Leftists wanted all along. It's easier to control a population with no family unity.
Single people pay more taxes also.
What are you talking about. Those who abide by the family unit are extremely predictable and that means they are easy to manipulate and excellent consumers. Those that reject the family are completly unpredictable.
@@danielgray2661 What are you talking about? Those that reject the family are totally predictable as well. In some ways even moreso.
@@Theseus9-cl7ol Really? Those that follow the path of the family are very predictable. Birth > School > College > Work > Breed > Retire > Die. They get mortgages, cars, furniture, appliances, children items, vacations, retirement plans, wage slaves, college fees etc etc. So very predictable and excellent consumers.
I am unpredictable and i enjoy every minute of life.
@@danielgray2661 Ok got it, you are anti-family got it. Great, enjoy your life, so happy for ya bud. You sound like such a delightful guy.
he said that Millennials say 'like' a lot. Student gets up and says 'like' every third word.
I'm a 26 year old millennial. I was in middle school (7th grade) in about 2004, just a couple years after 9/11. I remember in my history class, we studied Islam for almost 4 months straight. I couldn't understand why we spent so much time on that one religion. The school actually invited a couple of Muslim women, dressed in full body covers and hijabs, to come speak to the students about the religion of Islam and how peaceful it is. I kid you not. Even at 12 years old I was skeptical the entire time. It was real liberal indoctrination trying to entice a bunch of 12 year olds to become curious about a religion that conveniently had just murdered 3,000 people several years prior. When I look back on that "history lesson" I am disgusted. This happened at Sutter Middle School in Sacramento, CA.
You are 26 years old. That means you are the eldest of GEN Z you fucking liberal mutant.
We CONSERVATIVE Millennials are tired of your bitch-ass PAMPERED generations getting us blamed for all that YOU do!
I feel your pain. Check this out. I went to middle school (it was called junior high) in 1973 in Austin TX. My school was under order to have forced bussing of kids from the East side (poor communities, blacks & Hispanics) even though my middle class neighborhood was already naturally integrated. This was part of the reason that all the 7th grade girls were rounded up into the cafeteria for "sex education" by Planned Parenthood feminists. I remember exactly those 70's maxi skirts they were wearing. After the cheesy films on std's (called VD back then) we got the BIG SPEECH on the REAL reason why they were there. Remember that in general it was a much more innocent time. I was inexperienced with boys as were all of my friends. My most scandalous fantasy was my crush looking my way! Nothing past that, not even holding hands. Sooooo....when those liberal wackos started in on how easy it would be for us to get abortions it totally freaked me out! There were zero pregnant girls in middle school and just the odd one here & there in high school.They would just disappear for awhile then return amidst whispering about how immoral she was. My point is it blew my mind. My friends and I started having discussions about "should we be doing it already? " "is something wrong with us if we aren't?" " Do you know anyone who has? ". This was when that ridiculous Roe vs Wade arose and most people don't even realize the scandals behind the careerest attorneys pushing it just to make a name for themselves, manipulating witnesses, etc. It never should have happened. It was never about achieving any fairness for women. But I digress.it all started way back. Lots of those girls are moms now propagandizing their modern day Millennial daughters.
Wow. I would have got into allot of trouble
Nygren, Why do you have to address people like that? Disgusting!
@@peternygren3215 forget to take your meds today?
“He’s just trying to enjoy a nice plate of cocaine...” 😂😂😂
Just like the famous T-Rex from the meme. Fucking love that T-Rex.
I'm actually just curious, isn't it dangerous treading on dangerous territory to say that? Could he be sued?
Chop ur breakfast on a mirror lol
@@TheDaveBloom no. He clearly is not actually making an effort to make people honestly believe he was snorting or whatever a whole plate of cocaine.
The kid at 38:00 keeps saying "like". He should be expelled from university.
Oh,that word is so inane!
@@JillDinardo-mb6ii He said :like: 11 times. Correct me if I am wrong.
A lot of the staff at Uni's are more infantile than their students.
Millennials went through a public education system that amounts to little more than daycare then were thrown into the deep end of a recession. Most of us had our first experience with capitalism at a time when the economy was on life support and deception and exploitation was what kept a business afloat. Now we work temporary jobs doing whatever we can get because the cost of living is high and most of us have no savings and no hope of ever having any. As we are constantly reminded, life milestones like owning a house, having a career, or supporting a family are distant dreams for us. It's not a surprise that millennials are anxious and depressed, and there is more to it than a simple lack of discipline. Most of us are trying to save up just to afford boots, and the straps are sold separately.
All completely accurate.
+SkuzzelB8
Shut the fuck up. No one cares.
Everyone knows the obvious truth. Boomers fucked everything into a worse state than when they found it.
Millennials are expected to do the same things with worse tools, and get chastised when they report that it's impossible.
Stop disagreeing with people who are right. It's embarrassing.
@@SkuzzelB8 You seem to know a lot about me from a youtube comment. My "life's path" is strikingly similar to your own, actually. I've got news, you can thank Trump's tax cuts for your 15/hr. Wages went up overnight, but I wouldn't pat myself on the back just yet if I were you. Save while you can because the windfall is temporary.
And Millennials work more and take less vacation.
@@SkuzzelB8 This moronic piece of shit wants us to believe a Baby Boomer accepted his "job hopping" … after 4 MONTHS ...
38:00 "like, like, like, but like, yeah like like like...." Looks like Michael was on point with his description.
As a retired Clinical Psychotherapist who Specialised in PTSD Treatment, I also suffered with it Severely. I got mine overseas, the old-fashioned way, but my training and practising experience opened my eyes. PTSD is very much in the eye of the beholder. You don't need to be a veteran to get it, nor do you need to be abused. In fact, the person with the highest degree of PTSD to have been studied was a young American woman who was in a minor car accident where no one was injured. It is the symptom diagnosis and severity that determines the condition.
This blew me away. This guy is sharp.
Michael Knowles is amazing ♥️
This video/speach completely changed my life two years ago. Every now and then I come back to watch it. Thank you Michael Knowles
Im 55years old and your speech and its content is absolutly correct. These bratts need to grow up and adult up.
"They, like, umm like, you, like, said, like... Like, I would, like, like..." what the actual...
They can't think face to face, it's not a phone. People who spend 90% of their time communicating in tweets and text messages have difficulty putting a complete sentence together. In other words, they are idiots.
This guy is awesome!!
And it's gold that he's also part comedian😀👍
Great speech. I appreciate the ability to hear and see that kind of short but powerful lecture. I'm sure RUclips hates it but I love it.
Ah! Thank you. So many of these things are really crystallizing for me lately and this helps a lot! So painfully true. The misery is palpable and evident in every place ( mostly online, because I moved the hell away from Los Angeles 8 years ago 🙏🏻) I go. Every corner of the Internet is teeming with ALL of these symptoms of dissolving language, vanishing reason and open minds slamming shut.
anni dee well put. My wife was from LA when I met her. She was on these psychotropic drugs, full of anxiety and sadness. She had a good heart, but the culture was so toxic that it was buried under the vanity and apathy common there. It took years and lots of hard work for her to find true happiness, and my opinion was that it got better when she moved out here to the country.
There’s nothing so powerful as a man and a woman working as a team, and conscious or each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
dissolving language, ha! i'm going to use that.
I'm Buddhist (formerly catholic).I realized this misery and it seems to be associated with No faith, no life investigation,no groups activities for growth, ie. no religion.
I am almost 70 and it took me years, decades to really be an adult.'
I just started paying attention to the political scene about 3 years ago, after voting Dem like a robot all my adult life.
Steph J Same here, pretty much. When laws became ridiculous I started going NO this won’t do. Mom was a dem, Dad was not. All us kids became good little dems and I used to be proud they never made us go to church. So we all tried everything, sis and bro did Buddhism, Judaism, Wicca, no cults 😊Anyway, end ramble
Thank you for touring and bringing people back to the roots of what life and reality are once again, one group at a time. A man of faith.
I feel like millennials (I’ve been guilty of this myself as I look back) find some sense of relief or vindication when they can claim to be a part of a group that’s been “victimized” because, in all honesty, most of us don’t have a clue what it’s like to suffer through the struggles of the past. We came up in the days of excess in the 80s and 90s.
Having said that, Michael was born the same year as myself..but we definitely are millennials and guilty of many of these things. Having said that... I think he’s more or less referring to younger millennials (born in mid-nineties) and gen z. Idk. Or he’s just referring to the children of liberals haha. Either way, my brother was born in ‘94 and sometimes I feel like I’m ancient when he and I talk about our worldview. The lack of awareness outside the self, the lack of masculinity, the entitlement..agh
Last thing-the guy citing Locke and Hobbes as his justification that he’s educated and understands the complexities of the day are hilarious 😂
Michael Knowles. You should speak more. I know you have a show. But to live arenas. You are very good and well spoken.
GGodHand I agree my brother. I like Klavan also. Stay safe out there.
I love his spirit and I agree with everything he said here - the male/female differences, modesty, marriage. Religion.All dirty words.
This is my first time listening to him... I am very impressed!
They’re miserable because they were promised the World and didn’t get it. They were taught one way growing up and when they had go into the real world, it was a real eye opener for them.
Take a shot every time the second student says "like"
Not proud to be aligned as a millennial, but I’m a proud republican and conservative
The term millennial is made up. Don't fall into the trap that just because you where born in the same time period as others means that everything said about "millennials" applies to you. It doesn't, be you're own person, don't let others define you.
You're not proud to be aligned as the MOST CONSERVATIVE GENERATION EVER???
You are truly a dumbass if you believe this shit.
Fuck that stuff. Group think is stupid. Think your own thoughts. Conservatives are just as lost as everyone else.
Our generation sucks because our predecessors were largely degenerate failures.
Vaccines, GMOs, oversexualization & other toxic messages in the media, and being slaves to the screen & depraved entertainment instead of playing in the fresh air etc.
Vaccines as in anti-vaccination?
And soy products.
@@anultragreatsword926 Vaccines contain; Glysophate, Formaldehyde, aborted human fetus tissue, aluminum, Mercury, MSG, egg protiens, Gelatin, and many more adjuvants. Please ask for ingredient for each shot.
I want to thank you. This is the first speech I've listened to for you. It was great
Because our parents crashed the housing market, increased college costs by 10x, stagnated wage increases, then call us entitled when we have to work 60+ hours a week to afford a 1 bedroom apartment when they were able to buy a house and start a family with unskilled labor at age 24 while the wife stayed home with the kids?
you mean your GRANDPARENTS.
+PhilFry
Dude, I have a manual labor job and I found it by SHEER CHANCE through an obscure connection my mom had. I have no idea how I would've found this fucking job otherwise. I spent years unemployed. It's a shitshow out there, stop lying to people.
+StephJ
No, parents. Gen X didn't sire Gen Y. Gen X sires Gen Z.
@@GreenGearMood yes, it IS a shitshow.
And?
Your point?
@@GreenGearMood
No, it's not easy for very many.And, even they will have to face tough times in the future.Trying to one-up somebody for your suffering is silly.
And look how hostile and disrespectful you got.(Actually he was pretty sharp, too.lol)
Easy, pardner.Bottom line is, anyone can be happy and prosperous here.
If not, people wouldnt be coming here in droves .And none of these lefty radical mofos will LEAVE!
They keep THREATENING to leave, but they never do!
My situation is a bit different.I did get a good 'push-off' by going to the Peace Corps in the 70's.I've had my share of knocks, and knock down drag out situations, too.(mental and emotional, not physical.)My parenting was....'checkered' but i was always safe, always learning and I've always enjoyed working.
Starting my own business at 70.
stock in free stuff down 38%
The Boomer love for FREE youth labor???
Well, the brutal work culture in japan is also partly to blame. A lot of people don't feel it's worthwhile to add the stress of a relationship to an already stressful life when chances are their work schedule is going to cause it to fail. Even after limiting the amount of mandatory overtie companies can force on workers, office workers are still occasionally dying from exhaustion or passing out on the street.
Oh Michal Knowles has only tertiary knowledge of japan, and just pretends he knows.
It's quite ludicrous.
God that sounds awful. Too bad they are too busy working to revolt. They could, you know.
Good questions. Genuinely appreciated how those who disagreed with Michael were civil and open to listening/interacting. Enjoyed them.
Great stuff, Michael. Much needed voice in today’s environment. Keep it up sir!!
Is it bad to say I like Knowles more than Shapiro?
@Sherry Miller Agreed
I do aswell. By the way, the guy in the DBZ hoodie said like about 100 times for fuck sake. My god.
Yes, and you should feel bad.
Me too.
I like Knowles more, and I tend to agree with him more.
22:00 The word “morality” was mentioned.
That’s not allowed. And whatever you do, DO NOT mention the word “truth.” I made that mistake once. 😳
or modesty
Or chastity.
Thank you. This was real and true. I really liked the analysis on word choice like "adulting" and "i feel like", it's accurate and definitely has its rooting in the problems with relativism and lack of responsibility
Very very well done. Thank you for doing this & making this!!! I have these exact theories & thoughts in my head about the millennial generation.
This was a great speech very insightful. I'm a millennial and I consider myself one of the good ones, but there are some areas however minor that I see I can improve on.
Your comment says something very great about you.
Nailing the real problems. Thank you.
Articulate, cogent, and true; what a wonderful talk. You're gifted.
I went to college as a millennial for computer science and got my masters. The difference is I got scholarships to cover it by doing well in high school and then i picked a major which is actually needed. College is useful for some careers but it is way over advertised as necessary.
I was, like, super convinced that the dude at 38:00 was like, trying to like, make fun of how Michael pointed out how millennials like, they like, they like to say like a lot. Do you like know what I mean?
He is very well spoken. Something about him reminds me of a young Ben Stein.
Meghan Faulkner he has better pacing.
Last comment because this video is so good. It really is the case that millennials do not read literature. The vast majority of humanities professors I have had will condense an entire book (from their unquestionable analysis) into a powerpoint, which would then be the content of one lecture! I actually went all of highschool without reading a book. It wasn't until my first year of college when I read Matthew Crawford's "The World Beyond Your Head" (perhaps the first author to predict the situation facing millenials now) that I had the eye-opening moment you're talking about. If it weren't for that book alone I would still be wandering around aimlessly. That was the one and only book I've read in a humanities class. The rest have been powerpoints of mostly Foucault and Derida.
Great lecture, very insightful and generally true.
This is the most heartbreakingly truthful video I have watched in a long time, I wish all millenials would watch this
Why are baby boomers so miserable? Why is Generation Z so miserable? Everyone is miserable. Each generation blames the next generation. Saying how one generation is miserable is a very broad stroke.
Mr Toast sorry. When I was 20-30-40 I was enjoying life. Youth was awesome! It only gets worse from here. If they can’t even enjoy youth..they’re in trouble.
The ones that need to hear this will never hear this and that's really sad. They'll simply click the thumbs down button and ignore this message in it's entirety.
I appreciated that dating question and discussion. I was dating a girl long-term and planning to marry her after college, but she decided to become part of the hookup culture instead. It’s good to know there’s still hope
I have 3 kids ranging from ages 26 to 30 and none of them live with me and their dad. Parents need to quit being so welcoming to them when they finish school. Lol
I agree that the "youth" feels lost but I disagree on one thing:
Millenials have been to much of a scapegoat.
1* The consensus is that one is a millennial if born between 1977 and 1994; This means, anyone younger than 24 (in 2018) or older than 41 (in 2018) is not a millenial.
2* Most people enter college with 18 years of old and conclude it with 21 or 22.
3* A lot of college and school faculty members (teachers, professors, managers, ETC) have been born before 1977.
4* From this data, I can conclude that it is not accurate to point the finger (almost exclusively) at millenials when most of them have graduated already and those who are still in college, are seniors concluding their last year of their bachelor/master.
It is evident that most college students and faculty members today aren't millennials.
Edit: Some sources state that millenials range from 1981 to 1996 but my comments still apply in any case.
Who makes this shit up? I was born in '77 and was told I'm Gen X for years and years. Now I'm millenial? I am far older than the bratty whiners everyone is complaining about.
Yeah, I know. Today more than half of college students are not millennials and the same certainly applies to teaching staff...
@@Captain_MonsterFart and your the one whining...
“I’m not religious but I’m spiritual, I go, I’m not honest but you’re really interesting.”
Name that comedian:
This was a fantastic speech, and it actually convicted me on something.
In true millenial fashion Ocasio Cortez loves to use the word “like” A LOT!
Guillermo Garraton Like, really?! Like that would drive me like nuts! Like, why do think they even like to say like, like so darned often?! Like I don’t like get it. Like, do you??! Like, by the way, I really like liked your like comment about like, and like how ridiculous it is like when idiots like AO, like C use a word so like much! (Like, what word like did you comment about? Like I kinda like forgot...) 🥴🤔🤔
@@Racingirl911 15X he said "like"...my head nearly exploded!
Juliemedusa LOL!!! IKR! Like (😉), I wish I would have known that he had said it 15 times! I would have followed suit instead of doing 17 of them ! LOL!!!
I like the fact that you separated "A" from "lot". Thank you!
First rule of public speaking: Don't insult your audience.
It's not an insult, it's the truth
@@salildeshpande7 I agree it is true. But the tone is glib. Look at the audience. By the end, they have practically shut down. He needed to give them something practical to do, organizations to join, a reading list ...something practical.
Come on, you are part of the problem, these are adults not babies!
@@AnaMT1985 Tone, my friend, tone.
@@xtusvincit5230 I don't agree that his tone is either insincere or shallow. He speaks of what he believes and is very articulate about it. He was super kind to the kid with the rainbow flag on his shoulders at the end too. Just can't get to where you are with the issue you take with his tone...
Michael, thank you. Your talk was iconoclastic and deeply revealing.
I wonder why so many young people have no perspective of the hardships faced by previous generations? . As one who grew up in the seventies and eighties in Scotland, and remembers strikes, high unemployment, being not at school, not being able to tell anyone about mental health problems, people not being able to come out. Generation X and Baby Boomers tried to make the world a little more tolerant but now it has been taken to extremes. So many millennial are lovely, kind, decent people but to what extent will they have to carry the weight of their peers?
They have no direction.
whydothey try yeah we do
No millenials dont. They live a life they were told to live not one they pioneer
He said Millennials over use the word “like”. The first person to the mic used the word “like” literally 14 times! 😂 (Yes, I counted, and I may have missed a few).
After the 7th "like", I thought for sure the kid was making a joke about the use of the word lmao. He was surely just a bit nervous, but damn.
At around 38 mins...
I thought the person asking a question was trolling by say “like” every other word, since Knowles JUST discussed that......Turns out it was actually like just like the way, like his particular like verbal tick was like manifested in his speech.
He talked about how the majority of millennials didn’t study their religion and reject it, but that they’re ignorant to it. I’m proud to be one of the few who was extremely devout in my religion (non-denominational Christianity) having lead a few ministries ultimately to walk away from it. Something super ironic about that was it took me walking away from my religious beliefs that I grew up with to ultimately see the value in religion.
Short answer; they are taught to be entitled and expect everything from everyone, take what the things they like and have for granted, and to never be truly happy. The goals they seek stay far out of reach at all times, are unrealistic or nonproductive, while producing problems and turmoil whenever they seek to achieve them. As a bonus, honor and truth has lost nearly all value, so don't expect millennials to go through their lives in a way that benefits anyone but themselves a majority of the time.
Ah yes. Nothing says "entitled" like wanting to be paid for labor ...
@@peternygren3215 I'm talking about the people who expect someone else's labor to pay for their laziness. Free college, free housing, completely free medical, etc. Essentially the *opposite* of what you said. Nothing is free.
@@eliteteutonicknight1 My God, you truly are STUPID ...
Hopefully I can WAKE YOU THE FUCK UP with this.
You think Millennials are "liberals", do you? Okay.
Many comments here claim that Gen Z begins in 1995 (they are wrong, Gen Z begins in 1993). But let's assume that 1995 is correct. This means that presently, the youngest Millennials are TWO YEARS REMOVED FROM COLLEGE.
Which would mean that the Safe Spaces CURRENTLY on college campuses … are GEN Z.
Which means that Steven Crowder's Change My Mind videos … are GEN Z …
Which means that these talks in front of college campuses … are GEN Z.
WHAT is fucking "conservative" about Gen Z and "liberal" about Millennials?!?!?!
You mention "free college". In 2016, if we are to accept the 1995 standard, the YOUNGEST Millennials were seniors in college.
Bernie's base was 18-23 years old, and he campaigned almost exclusively on "free college".
HOW IN THE FUCK would "free college" benefit a generation THAT HAD ALREADY FUCKING GRADUATED?!?!?
How fucking STUPID are you people?!?! YOU caused us to lose the House! YOU caused us a Republican Super-majority. How?
Well, not only did youth not show up to vote in 2018 … THEY DIDN'T VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS, DID THEY???
Millennials are CONSERVATIVES. We are burying our Boomer parents at an alarming rate, because Obama"Care" is MURDERING THEM. We know that the Boomer platform and the democrats agenda is the SAME; to LEECH off the young, working poor! WE HATE democrats, but we are not voting for the Republicans who supposedly share our values in letting us KEEP OUR FUCKING MONEY!!!
Why aren't we voting? Because you will not allow us a voice, and an opportunity to speak! ONLY TUCKER CARLSON is addressing this! You don't propose solutions to fix extreme rent, or the lack of housing development. You don't seem to want to address the problems feminism has had on marriage; instead, you want to bash men and tell them to ACT LIKE WOMEN by "manning up" and "pursuing".
When it comes to REAL issues that would result in a Republican map like we have NEVER seen, so-called "conservative" Republicans only wish to MOCK we Millennials and equate us to the fucking democrats we OPENLY HATE!!!
MILLENNIALS created the NPC meme, not Gen Z.
Instead of believing this fucking BULLSHIT against my generation, why don't you instead fucking LISTEN to the LEGITIMATE CONCERNS of young people and the SENSIBLY CONSERVATIVE IDEAS he have to fix this fucking shit OVERNIGHT?!?!? Why not WELCOME US into the fucking fold?!?! There is ZERO attempt to even acknowledge that conservatives exist among Millennials, and absolutely ZERO outreach to show the FEW Millennials on the left that they actually SUPPORT capitalism. NAME ONE Millennial that likes taxes robbed from their paycheck, and agrees with the UNPAID INTERNSHIP!!!
I VOTED straight red in 2018, like I have done EVERY year since 2008. WHY THE FUCK would my fellow Millennials vote for a fucking party that does not fucking want us?
WAKE. THE FUCK. UP.
Short answer: They were taught zero valuable life skills by their inept, dumb parents who crashed the economy and replaced any semblance of an American culture and identity with meaningless hedonism, forced diversity and crony capitalism. They were told to get college degrees lest they work at McDonalds the rest of their life only to find themselves working at McDonalds regardless, only with tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt permanently hanging over their heads.
@@atonewiththedust I'd say even zero is being generous. At least at zero you would qualify as simply stupid. But with unnecessary courses that teach you to completely ignore reality and detriment your already lacking skills, it's worse than zero. ;)
This dude is DISCOUNT Milo but he's pretty good at his particular character
I havent heard something as logical and down to earth in quite some time, this was a great find.
To be honest, I was excpecting things to get ugly when the caped crusaders showed up, but I was pleasently surprised. they stuck out like sore thumbs but did not give any trouble
Not to put him down but, Isn't Michale Knowles a millennial himself? I think this kid is wise BEYOND HIS YEARS not to mention off the charts ELOQUENT!
I'm a conservative republican who is a millennial and hate the majority of my generation for being so weak and stupid. It really does feel like being an adult amongst slow children sometimes.
it starts with parenting. it started with the hippie generation
Oh STFU you pansy. Millennials are CONSERVATIVE.
There’s the door ...
@@peternygren3215 didn't even listen to the speech did you? It's ok plenty room for snowflakes this winter.
@@IlluminaZero you sir are an educated man, I like you.
@@IlluminaZero BINGO.
Millennials are "entitled" because we want to be PAID for our labor … like TRUE CAPITALISTS. We do not endorse the COMMUNISM of having to "pay dues" for X amount of time before being granted permission to enjoy the fruits of our own labor.
"Liberal".
We are also perhaps the most pro-entrepreneurship generation ever, and cannot go more than 5 minutes without dreaming up some big plans for our own companies one day.
"Liberal."
There just simply is ZERO evidence that Millennials are anything but conservatives; feminism is our true cancer.
The guy who said “like “every other word in his question
Proved his point that millennials say
“ like “ way too much! 😂😂😂
Really enjoyed this. Much of it so true. Earlier generations were made of harder stuff.
They were made of harder stuff but decided to raise their children to be lesser.
So much for that - in order to look good to their kids - they had to nerf and weaken their own kids so they could brag about how much better they are to the younger generations that they fucked over.
Isn't Ben Shapiro a millennial?
He's 34
@@mariomendieta4365 oh okay, thanks
Anyone born between 1981 to 1996
@Spider Web yeah 1997 to 2000 are considered Generation Z
Is he happy?
They need more Jesus and marriage.
I don't see more turning to Christ or marriage happening. It will continue to decline because of Leftist propaganda and control of the education systems. Prepare for the civil war to come in the near future. We won't be worried about marriage, we will be worried about surviving.
Marriage is a currently broken system where u can get out on a whim and the whamen will get half your shit and the wife will take the kids 80% of the time.
@@tsiiphsycoii thats why you wait and date for a while to find somebody who isn't stupid
Onyxtinct mangina.
Honestly marriage would solve a lot, like giving them something productive to do and some common sense
It’s so hilarious, the second guy to ask a question just kept saying “like and like so like”.
Very interesting talk from a different POV.
Well no one really has an answer for that because everyone's circumstance is different. "millenials" aren't miserable, PEOPLE are miserable.
I'm a millenial that grew up with 7 other siblings. My father left my mother leaving me and my brothers and sisters to suffer financially. Financially my families income was below the poverty line. I'm 23 now and I work 40 hours a week to support what's left of my family(two of my brothers and mother). I have no college degree and I'm not lazy in the slightest.
We live in a new era that the baby boomers just don't understand. Millenials have a variety of problems that need to be solved and it's gonna take time to figure things out.
Bullshit. Despite your anecdote no generation has ever had less
obstacles or less to worry about. & that generates a particular combination of weakness & agression that will destroy the future.
People are biologically programmed to overcome survival adversity (food, water, shelter, avoiding disease, fighting other tribes, dodging bears & shit). Western civilization has largely removed all that adversity from the human condition in a short time. Yet the instincts remain, &
with no existential adversity left it turns out people will create crisis to overcome in their own minds because the human mind can't handle utopia....which is basically what life in western civilization has been for a few generations now.
The destruction of utopian societies from within has been replicated time & again in scientific experiments using animals. It always ends the same. The 5th-8th generation animal living without survival level adversity (utopia) always goes nuts & destroys the society.
+ScottBroyles
Stop confusing good technology with good civilization.
Technology doesn't change the dating scene, it doesn't change divorce court, it doesn't change the economy we're currently in.
Less obstacles? Stop talking about the practical and mundane issues. No one is disputing it's easier than ever to cure an illness or heat/cool a room. Fucking vapid moron.
@@GreenGearMood I'm the moron when you think technology doesn't change anything???? Not only does it change litterally everything, including everything you just said it doesn't, but it changes things so fast that it becomes impossible to know the long term impact it will have on humanity.
Example. Access to porn. Anybody with any modern device at any time can watch porn. The timing of that technology is directly correlated with a massive drop in young people having sex & plummeting birthrates in the west. It's way easier to jack off to a billion hours of porn than go out & try to meet/impress somebody to potentially have sex with like everyone before had to. Not good.
Example 2. Antibiotics. Still to this day handed out like Halloween candy despite the fact we're now learning that every time you take an Antibiotic it diminishes the effectiveness it has if you ever need it again, & the germs they're designed to kill are adapting faster than we can make new antibiotics to kill them. The likelihood of a pandemic that kills millions caused by a new superbug that wouldnt exist without our overuse of Antibiotics is almost a certainty.
+ScottBroyles
Technology does change 'anything' but it doesn't change *everything.*
You stupid, stupid douche.
This is like saying you can fix all your problems with duct tape. *All* problems.
+mikea
Participation trophies have been around since the 50s you idiot.
Jesus Christ, that second Person with a question who disagreed with him: Can a millennial make it through one, single sentence without saying, “like” unless they are legitimately describing a simile? If you are not comparing two or more things or you are not expressing favor toward a particular person or thing, “like“, has no place in whatever it is you’re trying to say
Her said like 14 times in 30 seconds. That's (like) a "like" every 2 seconds or between 3 words.
Yo Genius … if they are in college NOW … they are GEN Z … dumbass.
About the Christmas question at the end...
We, in Germany still celebrate Advent.
One month before Christmas, (which we celebrate on the evening of the 24th of December)
We light a candle every sunday.
Most people have an "Adventskranz" google it, it's pretty.
People listen to X-mas music, bake cookies or do other seasonal stuff.
Very articulate, And with no teleprompter. I can see him going far.
I'm a millennial and I am miserable. I'm not a leftist, though
Change is a choice
Find a bible and check out John chapter 3 verses 13 and 31
Find God.
Feeling miserable is very common. Has nothing to do with when you were born. Learn to live with it and find something that inspires you to become a happier person. We all go through the same shit. Oh, and don't get caught up in all of this political BS tribalism. That's the true cancer.
find a bible and burn it in front of a church made me feel better. /s
Why does he talk as if he isn't a millennial?
I forget, what is the age range for millennials?
@GGodHand Exactly!
lol
well, he's a sane one, and an older one.
He's talking about the 'millennial' state of mind.
Being ungrateful is a problem
Those people who disagreed gave me hope that not all leftist are idiots. They were able to actually articulate their points without shouting. That’s what we truly need is more people willing to engage in civil discourse.
I'm a millenial and none of this applies to me.. Sounds like an easy way out, but asking political commentators to not over generalize people and things seems more pointless than educating my peers.
Have a good day.
Memento Mori he spoke of a specific group of millennials. Not all of them. And he stressed that point two or three times.
Kudos
Knowles for President!
“There are more than 2 genders”
The people who actually state that are basically stating that everyone’s personality is slightly different and for some reason they think gender is personality rather than biological.
this is just brilliant, thank you
points to Americans having smart phones as reason they should shut up, and we have it so great. Well I missed the millennials smart phone hand out day evidently. And how many of those smart phones were in fact just given to them? Say we are so great materially yet wages have been loosing ground to inflation. Berates millennials for not getting out and paying their own rent, yet he'll happily allow foreign companies and Chinese billionaires of ill gotten often stolen wealth to buy up all said housing property and charge exorbitant rents that millennials have little other choice to pay when a billionaire buys all of it. Like I said all while making less dollar for dollar then prior generations. Oh and lets not forget about all the high paying jobs, free market idiots like him and Ben Shapiro destroyed in America by undercutting the workers and loosening all there protection so the rich could make a few extra billion bucks. And millennial's now are having less sex or access to sex then prior generations due to a variety of factors. Frankly knowing all the problems going on I'm surprised there aren't large scale riots and strikes, but then again these people gloss over a lot of those facts. I don't support the left at all but screw this crony capitalist, he sounds like he knows what he's talking about the the lay person but he has very little depth or substance or worse he knows and is just omitting all the facts that destroy his own message. And this guy has no clue to the break down of gender relations. Well lets see he refuses to acknowledge that millenials are making less money then prior generations, so he also would ignore the effect this has on people's sex lives. And if you think I'm being crass or rude about it honestly ask yourself how many women will date a guy that is average looking and poor? Fact is they don't much any more they would rather play the tinder game and have a one night stand with a 10/10 hot guy that would never settle for her, yet says all the right things to get into her pants, but she would never think to give the regular guy a chance or even if she does she's been with so many hotter guys that just stood her up or used her for sex, he's now uninspiring. And will only settle for the regular or average guy when time is running out and none of the hotter guys she dates will stick a ring on it. And how well will that marriage go? two people that only got together out of mutual desperation and harbor mutual resentment of each other. And this moron when pressed on the issue will just say it's their fault they just need to man up! They get paid crap, their fault, have to go to college to get a certification for every job that still doesn't pay much, their fault, exorbitant debt for getting said degree? their fault. Cant afford health care, their fault, Cant afford housing, their fault. This idiot is just saying to man up while sneakily stabbing them in the back and supporting many of the reasons that cause them to fail. Millennials aren't failing in a vacuum, they were screwed before they were born. Sure it's not as extreme as others had problems but the problems are still there and are big.
Those two in the flags are a classic example of the CONFUSION in their minds
Did anyone else laugh their ass off when the speaker spoke about someone says like a lot? Then the student came up and proved his point tenfold?
And she will most likely be able to sue him for child support. What a world we live in