It feels like the internet declaring “Gamergate 2.0” as being upon us initiated some sort of summoning ritual that has risen Sargon’s channel back from the dead.
Fight Club, The Matrix, and American Beauty all came out in 1999 and are all about the same thing: men losing their masculinity, men losing their place and purpose and finding a way to rediscover it.
The exact opposite has been the case with millenials, zoomers, with Gen Alpha heading in the exact direction. The weaponization of morals has been the mallet that has been used to bludgeon these generations into conformity and collectivization. Also, Teddy Roosevelt was not a good president.
bravo; beautiful; I can see why Im so different now when catching up. I was raised christain first as a child, then taught the world :L I will get hate for this regardless wouldn't I? Like... Pentecostal side isn't that back... Is it? :/ I swear our church taught us to try to be more like jesus and follow in his footsteps rather then worship
If you win all the time and everyone else stops trying, eventually someone from outside will come in and take you on. That goes for any sort of competition. From the playground to civilization. Its why I drag race, because anyone can win and they don't have to be perfect to do it.. just better than the guy in the other lane, right then at that moment. Also its wildly fun driving a car you built that will go 0-60 in 2 seconds and cover a quarter mile in 9 seconds or less. Win too much, stop improving, and everyone else will pass you.
I am 100% Generation X; it matches me as well as any hippie ever matched her horoscope. I lived the carefree 80s through high school and the Wall fell as I entered college. Then I spent the entire 90s as a slacker, student, artist, and musician. I was secretly a conservative but limited my expression to sarcasm to get along. Something about 9/11 broke the spell. I was, like Ed Norton, a thirty-year-old boy with nothing to live for. I quit my band, got a low-paying job that I loved, married my girlfriend, and started a family. Now 20+ years down that road, I have some problems but most of my friends who kept on are broken, childless, or worse, didn't survive. I have actual survival guilt from the healthy choices I made, but I tell younger people that the conservative lifestyle and family unit has survived thousands of years for a reason. My story has no moral that I know of, other than that my biggest motivation to be a moral and productive person is my memory of the years I squandered.
I’m Gen X. Even though I listened to heavy metal and mocked the protesters at the concerts I did not go down your path. My parents were conservative but not the crazy restrictive type. They allowed us to dress funny and make our own friends. We also were poor so we all worked as soon as we were allowed by law to buy things we wanted. Needs were met but wants were our own to provide. So we were all very responsible. I didn’t get married until 25, but that was 3rd engagement so it wasn’t a lack of offers. We immediately had 2 kids pretty much back to back and I was a stay at home mom which is what I wanted. I wanted to be there for my kids and do the things my mother couldn’t because she worked. I know she hated it too.
I’m ashamed that my country has been turned into such a joke by the globalist regime. This used to be a great place to live, best in the world. Now we are a faint shadow of our former self, gasping our last breaths while being gripped by the cruel fist of insatiable ideologues who think they know what’s best for us. I’m almost a minority in my own neighbourhood, and I sure feel like a minority in this part of my city. Everywhere I go, I look around and see people who shouldn’t be here. I just took a two buses and stopped at a restaurant, on both buses and in the restaurant I was the only Canadian there. Something must be done. But it won’t. And the normies won’t truly wake up until it’s far too late, and the damage is done.
So good!!! Its also wild, that Millennials are applying for MAID (Dr Assisted Suicide) for Mental Health Issues, at a rate far higher than all other groups combined.
He is totally wrong as zoomers are not morally or emotionally self sufficient, they inherited from their predecessors the constant need for social validation
If you've read John Taylor Gatto you recognize immediately that the timeline for starting to define generations corresponds pretty precisely with the advent of compulsory public schooling. Laws were passed in the late 19th/early 20th century that forced children to stratify. In the first half of the 20th people still had to (and could) rely on family for survival, but in the 60s the real attack on the family began in the form of the sexual revolution and no-fault divorce laws, and so people had to start relying on institutions to raise their children - the same institutions that were already forcing stratification. The silver lining is that Gen X was the first entire generation to be abandoned to its own devices as children, and were the first to wake up in droves and realize public school had failed us in a lot of ways. It's now possible for a 50 year old to have a large circle of friends that all have families and not more than one or two of the children in that circle attending public school. It's also possible for 50 year olds to have actual friends 20 years his junior because we've rejected that stratification entirely.
I’ve never fully switched over to the LE. I watch some of there clips here and there, but for the most part I can’t be assed. I subscribed and on this channel 10 years ago for Sargon. It’s just not the same on the LE.
@@JesusFriedChrist This, and frankly I'm kind of shocked that his tenor feels more authentic and less formulaic. Perhaps TLE just isn't cutting as a creative outlet but it has a required format that keeps the money printer on and he can't mess with it? Not really sure but I'm hoping old Sargon makes a return, a little wiser and a little more educated but perhaps not the manner of character that he surrounds himself with now. Now I kind of want to see a Sargon-AA war over moderation vs full third position Evolean LSD rides into insanity, that'd be quite the meme. Also howdy, it's been a sec
I can agree with that.... I have contempt for a lot I have tons of disgust! and i have metric f$$$$ tons of hate at this point....hey i can't help it, I hate what's happened to society and entertainment.... at least i have emulation and retro games to keep my busy....
@@judgedrekk2981many do, across all these generation titles. I was born November’95. Full of wrath, and a longing for actual change. Change in the sense of drawing and quartering of the child fucking blood drinking psychopaths steering the West into complete destruction.
7:55 American Millennial here. No. As far as I can tell, you're right about Generation X. The Millennials are a different story: by the time I was a teenager, the world was introduced to a series of new ones. First, it was simple: A foreign enemy attacked civilians on American soil. But then our government was shown to have hijacked our collective sense of purpose for its own ends. And then the economy collapsed, alongside a series of other catastrophic problems that were caused by the actions of people before we were born. And it became increasingly easy to see and dread every single one of them, thanks to the internet: one of the things it enabled was an awareness of every single thing going wrong anywhere and everywhere, and Humanity as a species might not have been ready for that. As far as I can tell, rather than own up to the fact that they had fucked up and were continuing to do so, the previous generations either kept rolling merrily along setting the world on fire while pointing fingers at whatever bogeyman they could find. They'd already won _their_ great battle, after all, so if things were going to shit it had to be someone else's fault. It lines up rather well with the Fight Club metaphor: those men's search for purpose wound up being co-opted by someone charismatic and clever enough to turn them to achieve the goals he wanted. The result was that everyone was left looking for their own purpose, and we're now living in the result: Everyone has their own Great Battle with some impossible demon, and it's fucking bedlam. You're looking at a generation of people who feel as if they've been left with no future, are quite angry about it, and have had their sense of purpose hijacked by a million competing crusades. Until the root of that anger is addressed, the only answer to the 'hard' questions is going to be 'win the crusade'.
Millenials are the Plebians watching the Patricians drink wine while rome is being sacked. We could see the leadership were courrupt, we could see everything going on. We could also see that we would never be given the power to change the world and that the price to pay to *Take* that power would be unconciable. I think we share much with the generation that survived the depression, not the boomers. We did not have the economic stability for there to be wide-spread prosperity, nor the spread of growing wealth. We were told if we educated ourselves we could make the world better, nevermind that people were salting the earth where our new growth could take root. Our money is worthless, most of us learned how to get by ourselves, and if we do not breed, so what? So a population traumatized by history chooses to end the cursed bloodline, letting the strong and practical survive while the rest of us choose to at least not curse the next generation with our woes. Millenials are depressed because we were told the world wanted us, that was a lie. "Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin
Gen X was also the MTV, Bart Simpson generation, too cool to care about anything, "Waiting on the World to Change." Millennials started out Emo, caring very, very deeply. And I think because the previous generations had undermined the most important things in life that offered purpose - America was a joke, sex was transactional, God was laughable, self-improvement was for posers - they were ready to be gulled by people who offered them a very strong, very potent purpose. We need a Third Great Awakening.
Yeah it's funny Carl frames the whole thing as if it's all Millennials fault for...being raised by Boomers and his generation? Poor show on his part to let Gen-X/Boomer-Lite off the hook as if they weren't just as complicit as the Boomers. At least if nothing else, Millennials tried to change things ostensibly for the better, even if totally misguided.
I suspect there's more to it than the millenials simply being left a rotten culture. I think millennials were purposely raised to be group-oriented and excessively focused on safety so that they wouldn't turn out to be "apathetic" like those of us in Gen-X were. (As an X-er, I'd point out that we were NOT apathetic...it's just that we rejected leftist political activism, and the boomers HATED us for that. They also hated the fact that we didn't respond to group pressure to conform like them.) So they adjusted their approach with their younger children, the millennials, following more "modern" parenting advice. The result is a generation that is very susceptible to groupthink, a generation that needs constant validation, and a generation that is obsessed with "safetyism." In other words, a ripe harvest for collectivist practitioners of intersectionality within the academic system. So, to me it seems like an intentional reaction to Gen-X turning out to be "anti-Boomers."
when I saw that tweet going around using the picture of Fight Club, I remember chiming in "you DO realise his job was looking at corpses every day and essentially estimating how much their bodies would cost his company right? that is the epitome of a SOUL DRAINING job" they were all pretty quiet.
@@marcusrauch4223 it's close to the beginning of the movie, before the first appearance of Tyler Durden, when the Narrator starts taking a lot of flights. He tells people he sits next to about his job as a recall assessor. "A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
@@marcusrauch4223 Yep, that was the protagonist's job and probably why he was lapsing into mental illness when the story comes about. His job was to go and see horrific car accidents with burned corpses inside (often including children), and estimate if it would be cheaper to recall the cars that caused the accidents or just to weather the lawsuits.
While I agree that the example used was not perfect. It should be noted that at least in the movie the horrors of his job are not the cause of his insomnia or mental anguish but instead his lack of purpose and his failure to be taken in by a culture of materialism. a better example might’ve been something like office. Space.
"My job is too high paying and stable" And what do you work for? If you have no wife, no kids, no religion, no friends, no video games. What is left? You need a reason to put in the hours. Money is not enough.
and now the boomer bosses are wondering "why aren't millenials chasing the dollar like we did? it's like nobody wants to work anymore!" (spoilers but part of it is hyperinflation meaning we get less dollar per dollar, while still having to finance boomer pensions and climate cult agendas...)
@@legchairhistorian5496 Video games simulate human connection. People get bored of sterile games where all you do is just accomplish tasks and never interact with NPCs. This is why quite a lot of the most popular games tend to have fully voiced characters and scripted acting sequences. As men we are drawn to things more than people but even so we still need people to stay sane.
@@SomeCanine online multiplayer games maybe. But single-player games' only true value is derived from the content of their story. Else they serve as only another hollow distraction, meaningless "fun". And we are all, here, surely familiar with the state of writing in entertainment these days, which appears largely of less quality than the meaningless fun of the gameplay (and even detracts from it). No, my friend, meaningfulness must be found elsewhere.
You work because you don't have the option not to work. You must survive, there are no tickets off this ride. Even if you had all those things, they can leave you. Statistically speaking your wife is 50% likely to leave you, probably taking your kids too. Your possessions are not safe either, they can be stolen, broken, or become unaffordable or disinteresting. And the uncomfortable truth is, its becoming more likely each day you will lose what matters to you..... so be thankful for what you have or had. Work hard & do what you can, thats about all you can do. Nothing else is a guarantee.
Also why so many cheered on the Taliban a few years ago. If you recoil from or cannot grasp what I said, then you aren’t matured enough for your own statement about movies.
@@InternetHydraI know what you mean. Also, I see the obligation to be morally outraged by world events, no matter how horrific, is dying in this generation. Largely because the older generations progressively failed to give their children a reason to care about what they think or to have any investment in a society that has left them nothing but decay. Why wouldn't a young, dispossessed male of the zoomer generation be excited to watch this presumptuous, senile world order be turned finally, ruthlessly, on its head, no matter who by?
I’ve been saying this for awhile. Gen X and Gen Z are similar. Apathetic, realists disenchanted by the self entitled generation before us. We don’t buy the official story, or “context” on a RUclips video, we look for the truth ourselves.
I think there's some wishful thinking that their nihilism means they're clean from the muck though. There are a lot of underhanded ideas vying for their attention.
If you're talking about generations then you'd have to be saying that everyone in that gen is the same. I can tell you for sure that when you say "we don't buy the official narrative" you're probably just wrong. Look at vax percentages.
Nobody could have said it better though , that's why Sargon of Akkad is very much needed . We need people who don't just have the balls to say what needs to be said , but also has the words and the intellect to actually put it into relative perspective .
Sargon, well met, as always, my friend. Your words are brilliant and powerful. I just turned 45 years old. I had a father who was a pushbroom mustache-havin, Corvette drivin', hilarious Man's man who ever encouraged me to be independent and taught me early that "we are all trapped in this system, and the duty of life is to find your own way out." Only he used terminology that would not be acceptable today, bless him. I own and operate my own business, am ever expanding my Homestead, growing more food, flowers, trees, and caring for the surrounding wildlife. I work all day everyday and long ago crushed the skull of the demon of despondency that plagues the young with such persistence in our contemporary era. Your reference to Nietzsche is so well warrented. To those seeking truth, enlightenment, empowerment, self sufficiency, I say; study Nietzsche who died in 1900, then study Carl Jung who carried Nietzsche's torch more than most people think or realize, and then study Terence McKenna who died in 2000. I find this century of Philosophers to offer nearly all the answers to all the questions that thoughtful people need right now. Do I have a soul? Why do i have a Soul? What should I do with my life? How do I overcome slavery and bondage? How do I find joy in existence? What is the meaning of my life? Read, study, learn, grow and evolve. "Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." -Terence McKenna Liked and Shared. Godspeed, brothers and sisters. Don't give up.
No longer empty and frantic Like a cat, tied to a stick That’s driven into frozen winter shit The ability to laugh at weakness Calm, fitter, healthier, and more productive A pig in a cage On antibiotics
Overwhelmed as one would be placed in my position Such a heavy burden now to be the one Born to bear and read you all the details of our ending To write it down for all the world to see But I forgot my pen Shit the bed again Typical
I really think there are 2 types of millennials, those born pre-1990 and those born post-1990 (or pre and post falls of the USSR). Those of us born in the '80s lived in a transitory world, and it really was, the '90s in America were generally a great time to be a kid. We saw a glimpse of paradise and on a Tuesday morning had it snatched away. Those born in the '90s didn't fully realize that, they know the post 9/11 world. I think that is where the millennials in America splinter. There are those who accept the cage, either through some sort of guilt or ignorance. Then there are those who realize what we had in the '90s, and realize it is lost, but don't accept the cage. I don't know if what was in the '90s is just a aberration and if that can ever be found again. I know what has happened is wrong and this isn't how things should be. Just some random thoughts I haven't fully fleshed out yet.
I have similar thoughts. People born 1981 are not the same generation as those born in 1996, or probably even 1991. Social media and the post 9/11world is a fundamentally different place to be a young adult than the.90s.
I think you are dead on about the millennials having two sub-generations. I remember looking at many millennials growing up and thinking how their views felt utterly foreign to me, to the point where for a long time I wasn't comfortable acknowledging myself as part of that generation.
@@masterarcher89 Yep, Millennials being lumped together seems odd. The rise of the internet and the post 9/11 world really does create a quite sharp divide. Almost two completely different childhoods. And formative years matter.
Totally agree and always thought this. There is no comparison between being born in 85 and 95. One grows up with the net and one doesn't. People leave the Internet out because they forget what life was like before it. That is a big enough difference to warrant a generation distinction. That changed everything. I'm really glad it wasn't freely available until I was in my late teens.
I really miss these kinda vids. I know you've mostly moved onto bigger and better things, but your monologues were one of my mainstays for a long time. Great composition man. I totally agree. -Another GenXer.
Gen-X didn't just lack purpose. We lacked numbers. The boomers had us out numbered from day one, and thus presented us with an obstacle that could only be overcome by avoiding it. This is why so many gen-Xers simply decided to go their own way; to live their own lives in the context of a society they knew was failing instead of trying to fight a losing battle to change that society.
This is what I did. I joined the Army, retired from service. Bought 40 acres and 2 houses in the middle of nowhere. Never been happier and my kids will have a house.
Yup, we were called apathetic because we saw the BS for what it was and rejected it. Boomers hated that and made sure that their younger children were much more compliant...and so, millennials are born.
I dunno. From my perspective the purpose was provided "ready made", and most of us swallowed it unquestioningly... "Make money". Also, technology was going so fast, and the civilization at least appeared to be reaching it's goals.. it was hard not to be techno-optimistic at the time... especially when the internet hit. Of course in hindsight, I wish more of us had spent time reflecting on what our values should be. Hopefully now that we brought the internet into existence.. it will encourage future generations to be more curious, through philosophers like Sargon and the many others that populate cyberspace.
I'm a millennial. I have taken up the traditions of my family. It isnt the best everyday, vut I dont have a sense of nihilism my peers do. I have taken on God, marriage, children, work. This is the only thing that gets me up in the morning that makes it worth living.
when zoomers first began to come of age in around 2017, after Trump won, many predicted zoomers would become the most conservative generation since the boomers. when Biden won in 2020, many then pivoted to saying that zoomers were more liberal than even their millenial forebears. now, we're hearing that zoomer women are being radicalized to the left, and zoomer men are becoming more conservative in reaction.
A named/titled Generation is a very recent sociological concept. The idea of separation between parents and children only developed in the 1950s/1960s, given before then, it was generally accepted that cultures around the world, including the English, had intergenerational practices and traditions for transmission of ethnic cultural values onwards, ranging from Initiation and Childhood-to-Adulthood rites and cultural education mechanisms. The concept was applied retroactively to the Lost and Greatest Generations (curiously no prior generations appear to exist with an actual identifiable and distinct set of demographic traits), with the Lost and Greatest Generations clearly sharing cultural and ideological beliefs, the only difference between them being the Silent Generation suffering seriously from WWI, whereas the Greatest Generation fought and won WWII. It's pretty clear the concept of distinction culturally between parents and children is entirely the product of the development of Youth Pop Culture starting in the 1920s, first with the Flappers, then the Swingers and Zoots of the 1930s, then the Bobbies of the 1940s, then the Rockers and Greasers of the 1950s, before finally culminating in the first major parent-to-child cultural break in the Hippies of the 1960s, and the rapid advance of new types of media that the younger generations successfully embraced, imbibed in, and were immersed in, shaped their psychological, cultural, and ideological views and beliefs.
The Bible talks about different generations that are defined by their experiences, subcultures, triumphs and failures. So we know, separating groups as distinct generations has been around forever. I don't know if I understood what you were saying completely, but this might be relevant if I do
That meme proves what Jordan Peterson said about Utopias is right, "First thing we'd do in a Utopia is shake things up or tear it down just to have something happen."
this video accurately sums up a lot of things, including unintentionally how gen x never take responsibility for anything and always just point the finger.
Yes, it is actually fascinating to watch GenX’ers, one of the most degenerate and narcissistic generations, blame millennials for the suffering of their own children (GenZ) Truly, they are the generation that never grew out nor grew a spine.
First off, obligatory thank you Carl, the world needed this badly. Second, I think for at least Americans, Millennials as a generation really are broken up into two distinct parts. The first (Born 1980 to 1990) are quite different because the 90's and 00's brought about so many major cultural and geopolitical events. Many early millennials saw the end of communism but saw it replaced with the Global War on Terrorism and the rise of Al-Qaeda. For these Millennials, 9/11 was an emotional lightning rod, a moment of anger and patriotism. Regardless of how the GWOT ended up, the years between 2001 and 2003 when it was strictly going after The Taliban for hiding Bin Laden was our Pearl Harbor moment. The second half of millennials (Born 1990 to 2000) are the ones who are more accurately described here. They grew up in an era where 9/11 was a childhood memory that had little emotional impact. All they saw was the GWOT as a fruitless endeavor, and the political regime of George W. Bush and the Neocons as the epitome of all evil, and thus turned to the young charismatic Senator from Chicago. The problem is these Millennials never grew OUT of this phase, and to this day consider anyone conservative as a neo-con and anyone who is leftist as "progressive" while ignoring how terribly authoritarian their own venerated paragons have become.
That is funny because I see this as the opposite. I see the older Millennials, as one born in 94 myself, as being the ones on moral crusades and making terrible financial and political decisions. Keep in mind, the cut off for Gen Z is 96, not 2000. Millennials born closer to that Gen Z era are far more stoic, and usually more right wing.
The problem with generation X was that we were a smaller voting block than both the boomers, and millennials. It's not that we didn't act and more that politically speaking, we were easy to ignore.
Lol no. What Sargon is ignoring (out of malice or stupidity, I don’t know) is that the GenX’ers were the F’ing prime voting block that turned everything into fecal matter. Who do you think voted in Tony Blair that Sargon keeps complaining about? Spoiler alert: it wasn’t the millennials
And there's a reason the elite were terrified of it when it came out. I still remember the hit pieces back in the day calling on par with nazi propaganda (what? You think them calling anything no in lock step nazi was a new thing? The media hasn't changed, people are just noticing how they always been).
It has been #1 for me since the day I walked into the Theater and saw it upon release. It was the first time any character in a movie stated the things outright that I had concluded by then (my late 20s). For me, it was some hard learning. I knew whoever the writer was, he had come to the same conclusions about his relationship to the world. I had already set my path by then and it was authentically my own. I achieved all my goals from those days... then made new one. I created my own spiritual path, so to speak. I also knew that my self respect was paramount above all. That self respect has saved me from many bad choices in life. I'm still here. I'm still striving to acquire more skill at the things I enjoy. I will continue to do so for as long as I live. Nobody gave me a narrative so I constructed one of my own... and that has made all the difference.
I think a big part of it, too, is the pace of technological development. Each generation has a vastly different experience of the world while maturing because of this.
The effect is exponential with each generation. An average high school kid in the 80’s would have an easier time acclimating to the same setting 30 years prior than the average high school kid today would have adjusting to life in the 90’s. Each generation(as a whole) has traded levels of self sufficiency for technology and as a result has become more dependent and at the same time more assimilated into that technology
Gen Z are facing cataclysmic challenges. So many of them spend time on their phones watching other people live their lives on Tik Tok and other applications, rather than living their own lives. Gen X had little choice but to go outside and touch the grass
Gen Z are long gone. Gen Alpha is where we should aim our sights. Before Hollywood digs in too deep. And only us, the few but high in numbers sane millennials, can do so. Boomers are done, Gen X are the lazy generation and Zoomers are so far gone they're just insane at this point. Only a few sane millennials still with a little youth and vigour can save this long fallen world. Or that's my opinion.
It's very unfortunate but it seems at some point between Gen x and Gen y people got incredibly scared of letting kids go outside and explore and do stuff You were told by your parents you had to go outside and play but that you weren't allowed outside of the fenced-in backyard
I’ve been very fortunate as a zoomer to have been far more influenced by my traditional parents and extended family than by my own peers. Their values are humble, respectable, and timeless, and I look forward to passing them on to my own descendants
Honestly this kind of first principle abstract stuff is why I fell in love with Sargon. Lotus eaters is great but this is your USP Carl. I love LE but the internet doesn’t really NEED another anti woke news commentariat channel, it needs this ☝️
I think the more prudent mindset is to light the fire yourself. At least then you could control it, in some respect. Perhaps that's going to get me called a fed, but I'm growing rather tired of seeing the increasingly prevalent mindset of "waiting it out" or "winning by not playing". Of course you should prepare for the troubling times, but to simply watch from the sidelines and think you'll have some say in what comes next is absurd.
@@pwh1981 This is precisely why people won't start the fire themselves, for it takes more than one person to do so and it feels impossible to trust anyone with the infiltrators going around. Basically you'll either end up being a martyr or end up a prisoner, the latter being more likely. Also, we have sanctified life to the point where sacrificing yours for the greater good is unthinkable.
@@pwh1981Accelerationism is just malignant optimism. It assumes that making everything worse will somehow bring people to your side, rather than alienate everyone and give the authorities complete justification to come down on you as hard as they want. Acceleration only benefits the side with the stronger army, which is not you.
Nietzsche perfectly describing Millennials you describe at 8:42: "They wander around among us like personifications of reproach, like warnings to us-as if health, success, strength, pride, and a feeling of power were already inherently depraved things, for which people must atone some day, atone bitterly. O how ready they themselves basically are to make people atone, how they thirst to be hangmen! Among them there are plenty of people disguised as judges seeking revenge. They always have the word “Justice” in their mouths, like poisonous saliva, with their mouths always pursed, always ready to spit at anything which does not look discontented and goes on its way in good spirits. Among them there is no lack of that most disgusting species of vain people, the lying monsters who aim to present themselves as “beautiful souls” and who, for example, carry off to market their ruined sensuality, wrapped up in verse and other swaddling clothes, as “purity of heart,” the species of self-gratifying moral masturbators." - Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, pages 70-71
Reminds me of the Native Americans on the reservations. Every single one would have rather returned to a wild and rugged life than having been domesticated. Man is not built for paradise, he is built for struggle.
As the man said, most men go through life aimlessly chasing some vague desire that never truly materializes, and therefore can never be fulfilled. Poets and playwrights have been writing about it, call it whatever you want (the void that lives in the heart of all men) for thousands of years. It is a timeless struggle, yet every new generation believes it's somehow theirs and theirs alone. Some new condition or curse brought about by the unique ineptitude of their parents' generation. Yet it is that same emptiness, that inescapable sense of loss, of being eternally untethered, that all men have struggled against since the very beginning. Our forefathers knew how to fight it, faith, family, community, the things that gave meaning and purpose to life. It's truly a sad time to be alive when all the old lessons handed down by the brave and worthy men of old have been lost, laughed at, or abandoned.
And yet I really don't believe that "our forefathers" all lived lives full to the brim with meaning and purpose. Most of them scraped by in awful conditions barely making ends meet. This rosy image of "faith, family, community" is mostly a mirage too.
I don't think they all lived rosy lives. Life has always been brutally difficult. The idea is that they weren't special, not in any way. But they did have few good ideas on how to derive meaning and some measure of satisfaction out of life, under harder conditions than we can understand or appreciate. Aristotle was writing on how best to deal with the fact that life is intrinsically meaningless 2350 years ago. Disregarding the lessons learned from previous generations, smacks of willful ignorance.
As a young adult brit I fully understand this identityless corporate cog philosophy. Sooner or later the corporations are going to have to start counting their chickens. The rise of the underground scene of the creative world is not to be ignored, passion will always prevail.
the videos you're casually dropping here lately are such masterful summaries. Its great to have you back in this format and delivering essays that are the product of so many years of work.
Spot on. Gen Xer here and can confirm all in this video and add being the latch key gen, all my friends parents were divorced (mine too) so we raised ourselves since mom or dad had to work. We were age 30 at 13, went thru our hell raiser phrase after high school, became 13 at 30 then looked around and said "what do we do now?".
WWII was the burden of one generation, Vietnam that of another. It's not wrong to group generations by the populace-wide and temporally local burdens they face.
How did that benefit the quality of life for Gen-x? Fun times, good memories sure, but is it not just another facet of the circus and endless distraction? If we are talking about finding true meaning and purpose for a generation, in order to keep the human species alive, what role do raves play aside from promoting club hook-up culture and possibly drug use?
@@astrovarius543 we had something of our own which our parents generation couldn't thathom... Even with the 60s thing. It was organic, unlike today's various plastic cultures and was very exciting at the time. It's easy to forget how different it made you feel from the rest of society. Yes drugs had a lot to do with it, but it also created so much more. A large chunk of GenX carried this feeling with them into later life, I can't explain it in a YT message... But if you know, you know. Those from this time are in their mid/late 50s to late 40s. I wouldn't describe them as perpetual children like the millennials.
Normally population decline would be a sign that something is wrong with the system and needs to change. Thanks to unlimited third world human capital, the people in control of wealth and power get to ignore the problems and ride off into the sunset with record profits and real estate prices. All it cost them was cutting the legs out from everyone that comes after.
Sargon sadly is true about millennials. i found myself thinking in the same way as a millennial when i was younger. I've now realised this mistake and am trying to fill the god shaped void within myself as i once used to reject God and spirituality. Now im trying to champion it and see the flaw and wish to fly outside of the cage. Unfortunately, there isn't enough of my generation who has made this discovery yet. However there is definitely a tetonic plate shifting in our culture, and the rumble is being felt by a lot of people. I have genuine sympathy for the zoomers my generation helped enforce the cage upon you after we had lived in it for so long i wish to free your mind.
I'd like to point out that all these generational takes are extremely urban. The rural populations, at least in my country, are/were nothing like you're declaring here. I willingly socialize with zero millennials as you describe here, although I meet many of them whenever I find myself in literally any metro area. The city people are exactly as you described, however. I just wanted to point out the distinction because lumping a bunch of combat veterans, rural blue collar workers, people who literally cut their own wood for heat, raise their own food, and respect each other and their property are literally nothing like the urbanized animals you're associating us with.
the thing is the urbanized animals are the loudest and are the ones forcing changes the ones you are apart of remain quiet and keep to their own, they dont ruffle nor stir up anything, thus go unnoticed
@@ItsaKindOfMagic86 I would compare us more to bears, raccoons, and porcupines. When left alone to go about our business we're no bother. But, depending on the context of the conflict and situation we're in dealing with us on an individual basis can be extremely hazardous to your physical health. There's a very real fear from the city folks around me at least that trespassing against us is very likely to result in hot lead at high speed from the preferred delivery device of the one aggressed upon. They know, and it's why they don't venture too far out of town or even visit the expanses of public land around them. 🤣 They're not at all hard to spot either.
You have basically explained why I have felt like I am fighting my entire life, alwasy fighting against the current but without trying to be contrarian at all. I am a millenial but only by 3 years. I truly hate my generation, generally speaking, and have recently been relaizing why I have always gravitated towards GenX culture from the 80/90s. I have always felt like I was born in the wrong era. I created my band and music becasue I wanted to do exactly what you describe and become the kind of person that I wished existed in the world and bring something into the world that I wanted and felt it lacked. The moment I decided to do this my eyes began to be opened to a lot of what you have so succinclty described here. Thank you for providing so much clarity. A truly great video.
@@ironhead2008 Dayum, you were born a whole ten years before me. You have had to suffer and extra ten years of this cursed generation... I feel for you, dude. 🤣
As a Zoomer Sargon.... Values. Reject collectivism, embrace morals and individualism. That said, many people I know in my generation are basically Millennials 2, Commie Boogaloo.
Born in '90, and only in the last couple years really started to question who I even am, what my goals are, and what *I* want from life, rather than existing in the trendy progressive pool I was in. I was young enough to not properly understand Fight Club back in the day, but man, this video hits home right now.
The Don back in his armor, unshackled, rising again in full glory as the GG legions march again! As great as LE is, there nothing like you being on this channel, man, now I just hope to see the Capo, Pastor Louie again as well.
@@andersd8956 Oh man, and they are STILL doing it. I'm a Gen-Xer, and I'm not looking at an inheritance but I saw something being passed around the Boomer-net, a.k.a. Facebook, recently that had the Boomers all applauding. It was a bullet list of advice for life after sixty. MANY pieces of the advice basically boiled down to: squander any sort of inheritance that you could leave your kids or grandkids. Splurge like crazy. You can't take it with you, you earned it, you should enjoy it before you die. Essentially, you don't owe anyone anything. I find that idea horrifying. I aim to leave my child a legacy she can build on. Of course, that's not my sole aim in life, but the idea that I would just save up for a lifetime and just blow through it with no consideration for what I'd be leaving my kids to me just sums up the complete lack of spiritual vigor and complete self-absorption that the Boomers, in general but not always - possess.
I would hardly say that was the last generation to grow up without the internet. Just because the internet was invented then, doesnt mean average people had access to it. I was born in 95 and grew up without the internet. Smartphones are what gave average people internet access and that wasn't until the late 2000s/early 2010s.
It’s pseudo-therapy. Real therapy is about psychological change. The goal of psychotherapy is identifying the things we do that get in our own way, deciding to do something about it, choosing the something, and doing it.
I think you are missing something in this, Carl. I was born in 1981, so I think this makes me a Millennial (it's not a concept I pay much attention to) and I as well as the majority of people I grew up with, do not fit into the typical Millennial framing. I am English, and I grew up on a very poor council estate (in the 80s and 90s, it was rated as the worst/most dangerous estate in England and Wales by the government. It was all over the papers at the time, and most of the people who made it dangerous thought of this as a badge of honour. As of 2021, there are 1,300 houses on that estate. When I lived there, the number was around 800; we had 2 small police stations just on that estate and then a larger station which served tge whole town, but the coppers in the main station spent most of their time on my estate). The entire estate was essentially an under class. Think Millwall supporters as a council estate... no one else liked us, but we didn't care. I think the Millennials you are describing here fits perfectly with the middle-class Millennials I've met, but it is nothing like the people I grew up with. That estate was mainly made up of people that London borough councils couldn't handle or didn't want to bother with, so they paid my borough council to house them instead. We had gypsies, football hooligans (at one point, we had the top boys of Millwall and West Ham firms living on the estate at the same time; the estate was neutral ground. A small island surrounded by people who hated us just by virtue of postcode, although for some it was warranted, I admit) as well as other 'undesirables'. We had a community spirit that was very weird, but it took me joining the Army to realise how weird it was. Even our criminals had a moral code: we are all poor on this estate, so no stealing from your own. Woe betide anyone who broke that code! In a way, I miss the estate as it was then. It has since been flooded with immigrants from all over the world. The community spirit has gone (I personally believe this was done by design) so now there are constant fights between Albanians, Nepalese, and whatever new group gains any number sufficient to create a gang. Adult men beat children up for stepping foot on the wrong turf. These fights usually occur over a 5-a-side football pitch and/or the play park; kids can't use either as those spaces are now used to deal and use drugs. The council have effectively created small scale gang wars akin to the West versus East Staines massive from Ali G In Da House... with blades.
I don't class myself as a millennial I was born in 83 and grew up without phones, internet and only 4 TV channels with no remote. I think it should be split up due to how much changed in the 90s and early 2000s
I agree. There really is a stsrk difference between those of us that were adults when 9/11 happened and those that grew up afterwards. The world really changed significantly in those Yeats leading up to the crash of 08.
Carl can sense the generational ire and resentment of Zoomers and Alpha growing in the next years, and is simply trying to shift the target away from himself (Generation X)
Yeah, it’s insane to watch boomers and X’ers trying to blame millennials (who barely even have children) for the suffering and destitution of the Zoomers. The past two generations have been nothing but abject cancer
As an older millennial at 37 years old I can definitely see the points here but not all of us are so insufferable and caught up in feminism and victimhood, and I’d like to think we helped bridge the gap when GenX had its dream crumbling and when Zoomers needed an example of how to rebel against these tyrants, it’s because they looked at those of us who wouldn’t accept their hopelessness and therapy and black pills and have tried to keep those good parts of culture alive
Speaking as a Millennial we certainly did not "embrace the 'latter' slave mentality, killing off their own sense of pride and self worth, abasing themselves into the undifferentiated sludge of equality" ... nay older brother - we were pushed, prodded and FURVENTLY persuaded to pursue the courses in academia that even you now agree was a complete waste of time. What are a people to make of their elders when the fruits of their advice is nothing? At what point does one need to look inward? At what point does one need to let go?
Bingo, I was born in '92 and all throughout my school years in the 2000s we had it drilled into us "if you do not get good GCSEs you can't do A levels and won't get a job (they called leaving school at 16 dropping out) and if you don't get good A levels you can't go to uni and you must go to uni to get a good job. University was sold to us as a guarantee of getting a good job, I was told that by just having a degree employers will pay you more. The universities lied and told us jobs in our chosen field were plentiful and just having a degree in STEM will open many lucrative doors. 3 years later you graduate and find all the "jobs" are volunteer positions, often you have to pay to join and so you go off and do a masters degree. Just to be told that that's not enough and you need 5 years experience to even have a shot at an interview, which you don't have of course because you've spent your entire life in education. Now I'm 31 and retraining whilst working full-time in a bureaucratic job I hate, watching boomers and gen xers walk into overpaid managerial jobs because of who they know not what they know and minorities being promoted because of their race ect.
Then you pick up the electoral sledge hammer and give it to those elders right in the face. When do you look inward? You need to look up. At the final things, the telos that all this living points to. I would recommend the Eastern Orthodox Church, or the Taoist classics (Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tsu's Inner Chapters).
@somercet1 vote for who though? In the UK there is no one to vote for. Labour and the tories are the same party and the viable 3rd parties are all controlled opposition. We ain't voting out of this one.
Im stuck in that weird place generation wise. I was born in January 1996. My older family and friends, who are Millennials, tell me im a Zoomer, but Zoomers say im an old man and that im a Millennial. I know, I'm technically a Millennial, but people born 1995 and later dont claim me. I guess it's fitting, being a middle child, lol.
I was born in late 95, September. My Girlfriend (born in 96) insists that I’m Gen Z, but I refuse to accept it XD I think 95-96 are the last few years people can claim Millennial-ship, if one wants. But there is leeway.
This conversation about generations was something I had with my parents a bit ago, who are late boomers and dug our family from near poverty, discussing why the millennials in my age range who're born 1986 - 1990 struggled to find a place in society and didn't have the same opportunities as they did. A lad who I knocked around with who's father is a lovable rouge, started out as a bouncer in the early 80's then to blacksmith and now a bar owner in a rural market town. Both our parents were able to walk out of one job and walk into another, where as we had to hand in cv's or fill out application forms and was soul destroying having to wait for an answer that never came or to say we didn't get the job. My mate struggled more having no GCSE's but is now a valuable KP after bar work in pubs and then found his place in their kitchens. My father summed up our gap in the millennial generation as the forgotten generation, when the modern era was in mid transition to a more burocratic, materialistic and digitised society and he sympathised with those of us who got left behind due to the lack of opportunities that earlier generations had.
Millenial's were from day one the Boomers retirement plan. I don't know who said it first but it is best said like this; being a Millenial is having to pay for a party you weren't allowed to attend.
i recall in the late 1990s and early 2000s a lot of boomer and gen x college students who were obsessed with social justice activism were spreading their ideals online and mainly targeting the younger millennials, in a way grooming them and setting them up to be over exposed and accustomed to the radical changes the millennials now enforce today very sneaky and subvertive back then when I look back, the methods used mirror what the millennials use now only more overtly
The "take charge" people often mistake things like avoidant behavior, indignation and intellectual unsureness for weakness when they're signs this person is going through the process of self actualization and its probably the only thing that could course correct for society. Like why should I be gaslight into thinking I`m weak by people who haven't got an insightful bone in their body. I think they just like the thrill they get from using people. Maybe it is in fact them who are the problem? Nah couldn't be.
Just for comparison: I was 11 years old when the Wall has fallen. I even remember the first time the Chernobyl accident was acknowledged in our national broadcast. I lived in a Commie country in Eastern Europe. Politics were (and stays) part of our daily discussions. Are we part of the same generation? Most probably yes. Do we have different experience? Definitely. I even have different experiences and orientation than 99% of the gals and guys of same age in my country, but we share some cataclismic events which we can relate to: the fall of communism, the first meeting with the Western European Capitalism, the illusion of Freedom, and then the loss of that illusion.
@Chimerick And this is why western society will continue to falter. Naming the small hats is one thing, but not holding women accountable and letting them influence politics is one of the reasons the west has fallen to where it is, not just zionist interests. Women are naturally inclined to be more communitarian and egalitarian because of our biological and social evolution. Feminism, the sexual revolution, the prominence of birth control & abortion, the rise in socialism, the erosion of traditional gender roles and the nuclear family, and the demonization of masculinity, all stem from a gynocentric social order. The majority of modern Western men are feminists even without realizing it. Getting men to realize and admit this is like pulling teeth because many men don't want to admit they've been duped.
They’re not liberal. Liberal ≠ left wing. Leftism is antithetical to liberalism. The American founding fathers were liberals. THAT’s what liberal means.
Born in 84, so caught in the middle. Thankfully the reservation protected me from a lot what has happened, at the same time it was a form of a cage. I had to break out of that to understand the world and what was beyond that. Being spiritual is what is important to a Navajo such as myself. The only you and I can do Carl is influence and help as many people as we can, the future will tell us in time what the outcome will be.
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@SargonofAkkad why did you delete the British crusade against slavery video
hey sargon
It feels like the internet declaring “Gamergate 2.0” as being upon us initiated some sort of summoning ritual that has risen Sargon’s channel back from the dead.
witness the power of meme magik
Mustn't speak the magic words of the incantation for the meme shall rise again
@@Notallowed101Of course, majiks
MAGICAL MILITARY MEME MOMENTS
Oh make no mistake it's not the revenge he's after... it's the kek-oning.
Fight Club, The Matrix, and American Beauty all came out in 1999 and are all about the same thing: men losing their masculinity, men losing their place and purpose and finding a way to rediscover it.
It's more than that. They're all about the total emptiness of western society and the yearning for something more fulfilling.
And I like all those movies
@@peterc3262 Not only that but it's about standing up to the Jewish power structure. We can break from it.
_Office Space_ came out that year as well. _Eyes Wide Shut_ was ‘99 too, hitting on similar themes in a way only Kubrick can.
Nah. Not American beauty. That’s some pdf file nonsense
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Theodore Roosevelt 🐻
Two Roosevelts with vastly different mindsets. Wish we'd had Theodore for 3- 4 terms, instead.
@@matthewmosier8439Imagine if Trump was worse. That he was the Bull Moose 2.0? Chills.
The exact opposite has been the case with millenials, zoomers, with Gen Alpha heading in the exact direction. The weaponization of morals has been the mallet that has been used to bludgeon these generations into conformity and collectivization. Also, Teddy Roosevelt was not a good president.
bravo; beautiful; I can see why Im so different now when catching up. I was raised christain first as a child, then taught the world :L
I will get hate for this regardless wouldn't I? Like... Pentecostal side isn't that back... Is it? :/ I swear our church taught us to try to be more like jesus and follow in his footsteps rather then worship
the zoomers have been educated in neither
"the uploads will continue until generations improve..."
Kind of hard to continue uploading when after the next generation humanity can't maintain the electrical grid.
"Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you!"
- Bane
If you win all the time and everyone else stops trying, eventually someone from outside will come in and take you on. That goes for any sort of competition. From the playground to civilization. Its why I drag race, because anyone can win and they don't have to be perfect to do it.. just better than the guy in the other lane, right then at that moment.
Also its wildly fun driving a car you built that will go 0-60 in 2 seconds and cover a quarter mile in 9 seconds or less. Win too much, stop improving, and everyone else will pass you.
*The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.*
-Bruce Lee
The Entropy of Victory is real.
You can't not read that in Bane's voice.
"generic, deep-sounding platitude"! - play d'oh
I am 100% Generation X; it matches me as well as any hippie ever matched her horoscope. I lived the carefree 80s through high school and the Wall fell as I entered college. Then I spent the entire 90s as a slacker, student, artist, and musician. I was secretly a conservative but limited my expression to sarcasm to get along. Something about 9/11 broke the spell. I was, like Ed Norton, a thirty-year-old boy with nothing to live for. I quit my band, got a low-paying job that I loved, married my girlfriend, and started a family. Now 20+ years down that road, I have some problems but most of my friends who kept on are broken, childless, or worse, didn't survive. I have actual survival guilt from the healthy choices I made, but I tell younger people that the conservative lifestyle and family unit has survived thousands of years for a reason. My story has no moral that I know of, other than that my biggest motivation to be a moral and productive person is my memory of the years I squandered.
Damn. That's one helluv an endorsement.
You stole my past! Or maybe I'm not such an individual as I was always told....
I’m Gen X. Even though I listened to heavy metal and mocked the protesters at the concerts I did not go down your path. My parents were conservative but not the crazy restrictive type. They allowed us to dress funny and make our own friends. We also were poor so we all worked as soon as we were allowed by law to buy things we wanted. Needs were met but wants were our own to provide. So we were all very responsible. I didn’t get married until 25, but that was 3rd engagement so it wasn’t a lack of offers. We immediately had 2 kids pretty much back to back and I was a stay at home mom which is what I wanted. I wanted to be there for my kids and do the things my mother couldn’t because she worked. I know she hated it too.
Gen Z going down this path.. or was until Covid broke the spell. I can’t imagine any of my friends functioning well in 30 years
The moral of your story is that you're here to tell it. Nothing to feel guilty about.
Why yes, Carl, I will have another
Lmao
so his vids are spankings then??
[takes several steps back]
Since you're at the table Carl, can you ask the kitchen to redo my chicken? It's undercooked. And before you ask, I won't be leaving a tip.
@@LunarLocustcringe
"Embrace Canadian healthcare" is a marvelous euphemism.
Embrace Democide by Healthcare!
Just like the German Socialists.
I’m ashamed that my country has been turned into such a joke by the globalist regime. This used to be a great place to live, best in the world. Now we are a faint shadow of our former self, gasping our last breaths while being gripped by the cruel fist of insatiable ideologues who think they know what’s best for us.
I’m almost a minority in my own neighbourhood, and I sure feel like a minority in this part of my city. Everywhere I go, I look around and see people who shouldn’t be here. I just took a two buses and stopped at a restaurant, on both buses and in the restaurant I was the only Canadian there.
Something must be done.
But it won’t.
And the normies won’t truly wake up until it’s far too late, and the damage is done.
So good!!! Its also wild, that Millennials are applying for MAID (Dr Assisted Suicide) for Mental Health Issues, at a rate far higher than all other groups combined.
My friend described many Zoomer men as "involuntary Nietzscheans" and I think he's totally right
NEETzscheans
@@antonioreconquistador YEETzscheans
This is a very clever characterisation.
He is totally wrong as zoomers are not morally or emotionally self sufficient, they inherited from their predecessors the constant need for social validation
@@sedoskovelha123 nietzschean slave morality. once the first collar is put on, future generations lose the desire to get rid of it.
If you've read John Taylor Gatto you recognize immediately that the timeline for starting to define generations corresponds pretty precisely with the advent of compulsory public schooling. Laws were passed in the late 19th/early 20th century that forced children to stratify.
In the first half of the 20th people still had to (and could) rely on family for survival, but in the 60s the real attack on the family began in the form of the sexual revolution and no-fault divorce laws, and so people had to start relying on institutions to raise their children - the same institutions that were already forcing stratification.
The silver lining is that Gen X was the first entire generation to be abandoned to its own devices as children, and were the first to wake up in droves and realize public school had failed us in a lot of ways. It's now possible for a 50 year old to have a large circle of friends that all have families and not more than one or two of the children in that circle attending public school. It's also possible for 50 year olds to have actual friends 20 years his junior because we've rejected that stratification entirely.
Gatto saved my kids from public school completely. A gift from God. I quote him often.
Carl on his own channel is a different animal.
me with the homies vs me at home
Best Carl was always Sargon.
I’ve never fully switched over to the LE. I watch some of there clips here and there, but for the most part I can’t be assed. I subscribed and on this channel 10 years ago for Sargon. It’s just not the same on the LE.
It's like traveling back in time
@@JesusFriedChrist This, and frankly I'm kind of shocked that his tenor feels more authentic and less formulaic. Perhaps TLE just isn't cutting as a creative outlet but it has a required format that keeps the money printer on and he can't mess with it? Not really sure but I'm hoping old Sargon makes a return, a little wiser and a little more educated but perhaps not the manner of character that he surrounds himself with now. Now I kind of want to see a Sargon-AA war over moderation vs full third position Evolean LSD rides into insanity, that'd be quite the meme.
Also howdy, it's been a sec
My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred.
For the Emperor! I’ll see you at the border to repel the xenos scum.
My armor of God, my shield is faith, my sword of the Spirit.
@@darkma1ice the belt of truth, the sandals of peace.
I can agree with that....
I have contempt for a lot
I have tons of disgust!
and i have metric f$$$$ tons of hate at this point....hey i can't help it, I hate what's happened to society and entertainment....
at least i have emulation and retro games to keep my busy....
@@judgedrekk2981many do, across all these generation titles. I was born November’95.
Full of wrath, and a longing for actual change. Change in the sense of drawing and quartering of the child fucking blood drinking psychopaths steering the West into complete destruction.
"They were made to live in a cage. So the only moral thing is to change the cage so that it benefits them."
Literally the end of Matrix 3.
There is only one matrix.
Given the changes to the creators of that franchise between then and now....I'd say Carl's point has been made repeatedly.
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American Millennial here.
No.
As far as I can tell, you're right about Generation X.
The Millennials are a different story: by the time I was a teenager, the world was introduced to a series of new ones.
First, it was simple: A foreign enemy attacked civilians on American soil.
But then our government was shown to have hijacked our collective sense of purpose for its own ends.
And then the economy collapsed, alongside a series of other catastrophic problems that were caused by the actions of people before we were born. And it became increasingly easy to see and dread every single one of them, thanks to the internet: one of the things it enabled was an awareness of every single thing going wrong anywhere and everywhere, and Humanity as a species might not have been ready for that.
As far as I can tell, rather than own up to the fact that they had fucked up and were continuing to do so, the previous generations either kept rolling merrily along setting the world on fire while pointing fingers at whatever bogeyman they could find. They'd already won _their_ great battle, after all, so if things were going to shit it had to be someone else's fault.
It lines up rather well with the Fight Club metaphor: those men's search for purpose wound up being co-opted by someone charismatic and clever enough to turn them to achieve the goals he wanted.
The result was that everyone was left looking for their own purpose, and we're now living in the result: Everyone has their own Great Battle with some impossible demon, and it's fucking bedlam.
You're looking at a generation of people who feel as if they've been left with no future, are quite angry about it, and have had their sense of purpose hijacked by a million competing crusades. Until the root of that anger is addressed, the only answer to the 'hard' questions is going to be 'win the crusade'.
Take up your cross and form ranks with all who have come before.
Well said. I'm reminded of the quote:
"Why are you complaining about Millennials? You raised them!"
What do You think is the root of the problem?
Millenials are the Plebians watching the Patricians drink wine while rome is being sacked. We could see the leadership were courrupt, we could see everything going on. We could also see that we would never be given the power to change the world and that the price to pay to *Take* that power would be unconciable. I think we share much with the generation that survived the depression, not the boomers. We did not have the economic stability for there to be wide-spread prosperity, nor the spread of growing wealth. We were told if we educated ourselves we could make the world better, nevermind that people were salting the earth where our new growth could take root. Our money is worthless, most of us learned how to get by ourselves, and if we do not breed, so what?
So a population traumatized by history chooses to end the cursed bloodline, letting the strong and practical survive while the rest of us choose to at least not curse the next generation with our woes. Millenials are depressed because we were told the world wanted us, that was a lie.
"Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin
This is way more accurate than the tripe that Carl offered up.
I'm glad Carl is returning to this channel, I just hope this isn't a sign that Lotus Eaters is experiencing/expecting troubled times
Probably not, but its nice to see his individual content.
He's much more critical of liberalism than he was before which is good.
He makes a video every couple months so they dont de list him type deal
Don’t worry you’ve got Policy Exchange fellow Calvin Robinson to entertain you in the meantime lmaooo
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Gen X was also the MTV, Bart Simpson generation, too cool to care about anything, "Waiting on the World to Change." Millennials started out Emo, caring very, very deeply. And I think because the previous generations had undermined the most important things in life that offered purpose - America was a joke, sex was transactional, God was laughable, self-improvement was for posers - they were ready to be gulled by people who offered them a very strong, very potent purpose. We need a Third Great Awakening.
Amen!
Yeah it's funny Carl frames the whole thing as if it's all Millennials fault for...being raised by Boomers and his generation? Poor show on his part to let Gen-X/Boomer-Lite off the hook as if they weren't just as complicit as the Boomers.
At least if nothing else, Millennials tried to change things ostensibly for the better, even if totally misguided.
I suspect there's more to it than the millenials simply being left a rotten culture. I think millennials were purposely raised to be group-oriented and excessively focused on safety so that they wouldn't turn out to be "apathetic" like those of us in Gen-X were. (As an X-er, I'd point out that we were NOT apathetic...it's just that we rejected leftist political activism, and the boomers HATED us for that. They also hated the fact that we didn't respond to group pressure to conform like them.)
So they adjusted their approach with their younger children, the millennials, following more "modern" parenting advice. The result is a generation that is very susceptible to groupthink, a generation that needs constant validation, and a generation that is obsessed with "safetyism." In other words, a ripe harvest for collectivist practitioners of intersectionality within the academic system. So, to me it seems like an intentional reaction to Gen-X turning out to be "anti-Boomers."
@@BLRodgers Well and intelligently written!
@@BLRodgers Lots of pieces to work through 👍 - that "safety" thing especially
when I saw that tweet going around using the picture of Fight Club, I remember chiming in "you DO realise his job was looking at corpses every day and essentially estimating how much their bodies would cost his company right? that is the epitome of a SOUL DRAINING job"
they were all pretty quiet.
That was fight club? I remember this looking at corpses and estimating cost thing independently from fight club, but not in fight club itself.
@@marcusrauch4223 it's close to the beginning of the movie, before the first appearance of Tyler Durden, when the Narrator starts taking a lot of flights. He tells people he sits next to about his job as a recall assessor.
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
@@marcusrauch4223 Yep, that was the protagonist's job and probably why he was lapsing into mental illness when the story comes about. His job was to go and see horrific car accidents with burned corpses inside (often including children), and estimate if it would be cheaper to recall the cars that caused the accidents or just to weather the lawsuits.
While I agree that the example used was not perfect. It should be noted that at least in the movie the horrors of his job are not the cause of his insomnia or mental anguish but instead his lack of purpose and his failure to be taken in by a culture of materialism. a better example might’ve been something like office. Space.
Sort of reminds me of Milton Friedman's defense of the Ford Pinto.
"My job is too high paying and stable"
And what do you work for? If you have no wife, no kids, no religion, no friends, no video games. What is left? You need a reason to put in the hours. Money is not enough.
and now the boomer bosses are wondering "why aren't millenials chasing the dollar like we did? it's like nobody wants to work anymore!" (spoilers but part of it is hyperinflation meaning we get less dollar per dollar, while still having to finance boomer pensions and climate cult agendas...)
Although video games are fun they don’t really give you meaning. Human connection does.
@@legchairhistorian5496 Video games simulate human connection. People get bored of sterile games where all you do is just accomplish tasks and never interact with NPCs. This is why quite a lot of the most popular games tend to have fully voiced characters and scripted acting sequences. As men we are drawn to things more than people but even so we still need people to stay sane.
@@SomeCanine online multiplayer games maybe.
But single-player games' only true value is derived from the content of their story. Else they serve as only another hollow distraction, meaningless "fun".
And we are all, here, surely familiar with the state of writing in entertainment these days, which appears largely of less quality than the meaningless fun of the gameplay (and even detracts from it).
No, my friend, meaningfulness must be found elsewhere.
You work because you don't have the option not to work. You must survive, there are no tickets off this ride.
Even if you had all those things, they can leave you. Statistically speaking your wife is 50% likely to leave you, probably taking your kids too. Your possessions are not safe either, they can be stolen, broken, or become unaffordable or disinteresting.
And the uncomfortable truth is, its becoming more likely each day you will lose what matters to you..... so be thankful for what you have or had. Work hard & do what you can, thats about all you can do. Nothing else is a guarantee.
no matter how you feel about the movies, this is why movies like Gladiator and The Last Samurai resonate with so many men lol.
_The Last Samurai_ and _Fight Club_ are functionally the same story. CMM.
And of course, The Lord of The Rings.
@@Hero_Of_Old aye
Also why so many cheered on the Taliban a few years ago.
If you recoil from or cannot grasp what I said, then you aren’t matured enough for your own statement about movies.
@@InternetHydraI know what you mean.
Also, I see the obligation to be morally outraged by world events, no matter how horrific, is dying in this generation. Largely because the older generations progressively failed to give their children a reason to care about what they think or to have any investment in a society that has left them nothing but decay.
Why wouldn't a young, dispossessed male of the zoomer generation be excited to watch this presumptuous, senile world order be turned finally, ruthlessly, on its head, no matter who by?
I’ve been saying this for awhile. Gen X and Gen Z are similar. Apathetic, realists disenchanted by the self entitled generation before us. We don’t buy the official story, or “context” on a RUclips video, we look for the truth ourselves.
I think there's some wishful thinking that their nihilism means they're clean from the muck though. There are a lot of underhanded ideas vying for their attention.
If you're talking about generations then you'd have to be saying that everyone in that gen is the same. I can tell you for sure that when you say "we don't buy the official narrative" you're probably just wrong. Look at vax percentages.
That sounds more like millenials to me. Nihilism, apathy. Gen Z is more driven and positive but also more entitled.
There is nothing realist about Gen Z. They are tik-tok deluded to the n'th degree.
true, just lke MIllenials and Boomers are similar
Sargon realized nobody was saying the things needing to be said and decided "fuck it, I'll do it myself"
That’s why I subscribed 10 years ago.
And why I unsubbed about 5 years ago.
Nobody could have said it better though , that's why Sargon of Akkad is very much needed .
We need people who don't just have the balls to say what needs to be said , but also has the words and the intellect to actually put it into relative perspective .
Sargon, well met, as always, my friend. Your words are brilliant and powerful.
I just turned 45 years old. I had a father who was a pushbroom mustache-havin, Corvette drivin', hilarious Man's man who ever encouraged me to be independent and taught me early that "we are all trapped in this system, and the duty of life is to find your own way out." Only he used terminology that would not be acceptable today, bless him. I own and operate my own business, am ever expanding my Homestead, growing more food, flowers, trees, and caring for the surrounding wildlife. I work all day everyday and long ago crushed the skull of the demon of despondency that plagues the young with such persistence in our contemporary era.
Your reference to Nietzsche is so well warrented. To those seeking truth, enlightenment, empowerment, self sufficiency, I say; study Nietzsche who died in 1900, then study Carl Jung who carried Nietzsche's torch more than most people think or realize, and then study Terence McKenna who died in 2000. I find this century of Philosophers to offer nearly all the answers to all the questions that thoughtful people need right now. Do I have a soul? Why do i have a Soul? What should I do with my life? How do I overcome slavery and bondage? How do I find joy in existence? What is the meaning of my life? Read, study, learn, grow and evolve.
"Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
-Terence McKenna
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Godspeed, brothers and sisters. Don't give up.
Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage.
Going to bite of Winston Smith's face?
@@williambranch4283might as well. Im bored by the chore of saving face
No longer empty and frantic
Like a cat, tied to a stick
That’s driven into frozen winter shit
The ability to laugh at weakness
Calm, fitter, healthier, and more productive
A pig in a cage
On antibiotics
Overwhelmed as one would be placed in my position
Such a heavy burden now to be the one
Born to bear and read you all the details of our ending
To write it down for all the world to see
But I forgot my pen
Shit the bed again
Typical
Millions of peaches. Peaches for me.
I really think there are 2 types of millennials, those born pre-1990 and those born post-1990 (or pre and post falls of the USSR). Those of us born in the '80s lived in a transitory world, and it really was, the '90s in America were generally a great time to be a kid. We saw a glimpse of paradise and on a Tuesday morning had it snatched away. Those born in the '90s didn't fully realize that, they know the post 9/11 world.
I think that is where the millennials in America splinter. There are those who accept the cage, either through some sort of guilt or ignorance. Then there are those who realize what we had in the '90s, and realize it is lost, but don't accept the cage.
I don't know if what was in the '90s is just a aberration and if that can ever be found again. I know what has happened is wrong and this isn't how things should be. Just some random thoughts I haven't fully fleshed out yet.
you may not have fully fleshed out your thoughts but you are on a excellent start
I have similar thoughts. People born 1981 are not the same generation as those born in 1996, or probably even 1991. Social media and the post 9/11world is a fundamentally different place to be a young adult than the.90s.
I think you are dead on about the millennials having two sub-generations. I remember looking at many millennials growing up and thinking how their views felt utterly foreign to me, to the point where for a long time I wasn't comfortable acknowledging myself as part of that generation.
@@masterarcher89 Yep, Millennials being lumped together seems odd. The rise of the internet and the post 9/11 world really does create a quite sharp divide. Almost two completely different childhoods. And formative years matter.
Totally agree and always thought this. There is no comparison between being born in 85 and 95. One grows up with the net and one doesn't. People leave the Internet out because they forget what life was like before it. That is a big enough difference to warrant a generation distinction. That changed everything. I'm really glad it wasn't freely available until I was in my late teens.
I really miss these kinda vids.
I know you've mostly moved onto bigger and better things, but your monologues were one of my mainstays for a long time.
Great composition man. I totally agree.
-Another GenXer.
Gen-X didn't just lack purpose. We lacked numbers. The boomers had us out numbered from day one, and thus presented us with an obstacle that could only be overcome by avoiding it. This is why so many gen-Xers simply decided to go their own way; to live their own lives in the context of a society they knew was failing instead of trying to fight a losing battle to change that society.
Bingo!
This is what I did. I joined the Army, retired from service. Bought 40 acres and 2 houses in the middle of nowhere. Never been happier and my kids will have a house.
Yup, we were called apathetic because we saw the BS for what it was and rejected it. Boomers hated that and made sure that their younger children were much more compliant...and so, millennials are born.
I dunno. From my perspective the purpose was provided "ready made", and most of us swallowed it unquestioningly... "Make money". Also, technology was going so fast, and the civilization at least appeared to be reaching it's goals.. it was hard not to be techno-optimistic at the time... especially when the internet hit. Of course in hindsight, I wish more of us had spent time reflecting on what our values should be. Hopefully now that we brought the internet into existence.. it will encourage future generations to be more curious, through philosophers like Sargon and the many others that populate cyberspace.
Dam. This hits hard.
I'm a millennial. I have taken up the traditions of my family. It isnt the best everyday, vut I dont have a sense of nihilism my peers do. I have taken on God, marriage, children, work. This is the only thing that gets me up in the morning that makes it worth living.
My family have fake traditions, so I take up the traditions of my ancestors.
It's not easy, but it means something
Same
I’m trying to do the same but ultimately you cannot accomplish that if you are completely alone
Did you win against god?
@@Stringer13ell nah. It's why I took up all these things. I didnt want them.
Dude, I really miss this kind of videos. Thank you.
when zoomers first began to come of age in around 2017, after Trump won, many predicted zoomers would become the most conservative generation since the boomers. when Biden won in 2020, many then pivoted to saying that zoomers were more liberal than even their millenial forebears. now, we're hearing that zoomer women are being radicalized to the left, and zoomer men are becoming more conservative in reaction.
A named/titled Generation is a very recent sociological concept. The idea of separation between parents and children only developed in the 1950s/1960s, given before then, it was generally accepted that cultures around the world, including the English, had intergenerational practices and traditions for transmission of ethnic cultural values onwards, ranging from Initiation and Childhood-to-Adulthood rites and cultural education mechanisms. The concept was applied retroactively to the Lost and Greatest Generations (curiously no prior generations appear to exist with an actual identifiable and distinct set of demographic traits), with the Lost and Greatest Generations clearly sharing cultural and ideological beliefs, the only difference between them being the Silent Generation suffering seriously from WWI, whereas the Greatest Generation fought and won WWII.
It's pretty clear the concept of distinction culturally between parents and children is entirely the product of the development of Youth Pop Culture starting in the 1920s, first with the Flappers, then the Swingers and Zoots of the 1930s, then the Bobbies of the 1940s, then the Rockers and Greasers of the 1950s, before finally culminating in the first major parent-to-child cultural break in the Hippies of the 1960s, and the rapid advance of new types of media that the younger generations successfully embraced, imbibed in, and were immersed in, shaped their psychological, cultural, and ideological views and beliefs.
Counting generations is either a cause, symptom, or both of the atomizing Liberalism Western society suffers under.
The Bible talks about different generations that are defined by their experiences, subcultures, triumphs and failures. So we know, separating groups as distinct generations has been around forever. I don't know if I understood what you were saying completely, but this might be relevant if I do
That meme proves what Jordan Peterson said about Utopias is right,
"First thing we'd do in a Utopia is shake things up or tear it down just to have something happen."
this video accurately sums up a lot of things, including unintentionally how gen x never take responsibility for anything and always just point the finger.
Yes, it is actually fascinating to watch GenX’ers, one of the most degenerate and narcissistic generations, blame millennials for the suffering of their own children (GenZ)
Truly, they are the generation that never grew out nor grew a spine.
because Gen X are ready to die, they don't care
Honestly Sargon you've been missed please bring back this week in stupid
No time, too much other work and too much stupid
Vee does it now, and Sargon gave him his blessing.
@@JesusFriedChrist that's a shame
First off, obligatory thank you Carl, the world needed this badly.
Second, I think for at least Americans, Millennials as a generation really are broken up into two distinct parts. The first (Born 1980 to 1990) are quite different because the 90's and 00's brought about so many major cultural and geopolitical events. Many early millennials saw the end of communism but saw it replaced with the Global War on Terrorism and the rise of Al-Qaeda. For these Millennials, 9/11 was an emotional lightning rod, a moment of anger and patriotism. Regardless of how the GWOT ended up, the years between 2001 and 2003 when it was strictly going after The Taliban for hiding Bin Laden was our Pearl Harbor moment.
The second half of millennials (Born 1990 to 2000) are the ones who are more accurately described here. They grew up in an era where 9/11 was a childhood memory that had little emotional impact. All they saw was the GWOT as a fruitless endeavor, and the political regime of George W. Bush and the Neocons as the epitome of all evil, and thus turned to the young charismatic Senator from Chicago. The problem is these Millennials never grew OUT of this phase, and to this day consider anyone conservative as a neo-con and anyone who is leftist as "progressive" while ignoring how terribly authoritarian their own venerated paragons have become.
That is funny because I see this as the opposite. I see the older Millennials, as one born in 94 myself, as being the ones on moral crusades and making terrible financial and political decisions. Keep in mind, the cut off for Gen Z is 96, not 2000. Millennials born closer to that Gen Z era are far more stoic, and usually more right wing.
"To exist simply because one was born. I cannot fathom such a fate"
Where is this quote from?
I can. And I hate it.
@@dudeistpreist5721 The glory of Rome is forever, let its light fill you and burn away the hate, Trajan just wants you to put down Dacia with him
@@prot07ype87 berserk
The problem with generation X was that we were a smaller voting block than both the boomers, and millennials. It's not that we didn't act and more that politically speaking, we were easy to ignore.
Lol no.
What Sargon is ignoring (out of malice or stupidity, I don’t know) is that the GenX’ers were the F’ing prime voting block that turned everything into fecal matter.
Who do you think voted in Tony Blair that Sargon keeps complaining about?
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t the millennials
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Fight Club is one of my favorite movies.
His name was Robert Paulson.
And there's a reason the elite were terrified of it when it came out. I still remember the hit pieces back in the day calling on par with nazi propaganda (what? You think them calling anything no in lock step nazi was a new thing? The media hasn't changed, people are just noticing how they always been).
Watch the minute hour fight club video it's pretty funny
It has been #1 for me since the day I walked into the Theater and saw it upon release. It was the first time any character in a movie stated the things outright that I had concluded by then (my late 20s). For me, it was some hard learning. I knew whoever the writer was, he had come to the same conclusions about his relationship to the world.
I had already set my path by then and it was authentically my own. I achieved all my goals from those days... then made new one. I created my own spiritual path, so to speak. I also knew that my self respect was paramount above all. That self respect has saved me from many bad choices in life.
I'm still here. I'm still striving to acquire more skill at the things I enjoy. I will continue to do so for as long as I live.
Nobody gave me a narrative so I constructed one of my own... and that has made all the difference.
💪🏻💪🏻🙏💚🇮🇪@@michaeldavid6832
I think a big part of it, too, is the pace of technological development. Each generation has a vastly different experience of the world while maturing because of this.
yep
The effect is exponential with each generation. An average high school kid in the 80’s would have an easier time acclimating to the same setting 30 years prior than the average high school kid today would have adjusting to life in the 90’s. Each generation(as a whole) has traded levels of self sufficiency for technology and as a result has become more dependent and at the same time more assimilated into that technology
Gen Z are facing cataclysmic challenges. So many of them spend time on their phones watching other people live their lives on Tik Tok and other applications, rather than living their own lives. Gen X had little choice but to go outside and touch the grass
Gen Z are long gone. Gen Alpha is where we should aim our sights. Before Hollywood digs in too deep. And only us, the few but high in numbers sane millennials, can do so. Boomers are done, Gen X are the lazy generation and Zoomers are so far gone they're just insane at this point. Only a few sane millennials still with a little youth and vigour can save this long fallen world.
Or that's my opinion.
It's very unfortunate but it seems at some point between Gen x and Gen y people got incredibly scared of letting kids go outside and explore and do stuff You were told by your parents you had to go outside and play but that you weren't allowed outside of the fenced-in backyard
I’ve been very fortunate as a zoomer to have been far more influenced by my traditional parents and extended family than by my own peers. Their values are humble, respectable, and timeless, and I look forward to passing them on to my own descendants
Honestly this kind of first principle abstract stuff is why I fell in love with Sargon. Lotus eaters is great but this is your USP Carl.
I love LE but the internet doesn’t really NEED another anti woke news commentariat channel, it needs this ☝️
At this point, society is too far gone to save. All we can do is dig in and prepare for the inevitable collapse.
I think the more prudent mindset is to light the fire yourself. At least then you could control it, in some respect. Perhaps that's going to get me called a fed, but I'm growing rather tired of seeing the increasingly prevalent mindset of "waiting it out" or "winning by not playing". Of course you should prepare for the troubling times, but to simply watch from the sidelines and think you'll have some say in what comes next is absurd.
Slide.
@@pwh1981 This is precisely why people won't start the fire themselves, for it takes more than one person to do so and it feels impossible to trust anyone with the infiltrators going around. Basically you'll either end up being a martyr or end up a prisoner, the latter being more likely. Also, we have sanctified life to the point where sacrificing yours for the greater good is unthinkable.
@@pwh1981Accelerationism is just malignant optimism. It assumes that making everything worse will somehow bring people to your side, rather than alienate everyone and give the authorities complete justification to come down on you as hard as they want. Acceleration only benefits the side with the stronger army, which is not you.
Nietzsche perfectly describing Millennials you describe at 8:42: "They wander around among us like personifications of reproach, like warnings to us-as if health, success, strength, pride, and a feeling of power were already inherently depraved things, for which people must atone some day, atone bitterly. O how ready they themselves basically are to make people atone, how they thirst to be hangmen! Among them there are plenty of people disguised as judges seeking revenge. They always have the word “Justice” in their mouths, like poisonous saliva, with their mouths always pursed, always ready to spit at anything which does not look discontented and goes on its way in good spirits. Among them there is no lack of that most disgusting species of vain people, the lying monsters who aim to present themselves as “beautiful souls” and who, for example, carry off to market their ruined sensuality, wrapped up in verse and other swaddling clothes, as “purity of heart,” the species of self-gratifying moral masturbators."
- Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, pages 70-71
Fantastic to see these types of videos again. I didn't realise how much I missed and enjoyed them.
Reminds me of the Native Americans on the reservations. Every single one would have rather returned to a wild and rugged life than having been domesticated. Man is not built for paradise, he is built for struggle.
Man can not live on bread alone...
If he's a modern man, he also needs soy.
Lots of soy.
As the man said, most men go through life aimlessly chasing some vague desire that never truly materializes, and therefore can never be fulfilled. Poets and playwrights have been writing about it, call it whatever you want (the void that lives in the heart of all men) for thousands of years. It is a timeless struggle, yet every new generation believes it's somehow theirs and theirs alone. Some new condition or curse brought about by the unique ineptitude of their parents' generation. Yet it is that same emptiness, that inescapable sense of loss, of being eternally untethered, that all men have struggled against since the very beginning. Our forefathers knew how to fight it, faith, family, community, the things that gave meaning and purpose to life. It's truly a sad time to be alive when all the old lessons handed down by the brave and worthy men of old have been lost, laughed at, or abandoned.
And yet I really don't believe that "our forefathers" all lived lives full to the brim with meaning and purpose. Most of them scraped by in awful conditions barely making ends meet. This rosy image of "faith, family, community" is mostly a mirage too.
I don't think they all lived rosy lives. Life has always been brutally difficult. The idea is that they weren't special, not in any way. But they did have few good ideas on how to derive meaning and some measure of satisfaction out of life, under harder conditions than we can understand or appreciate. Aristotle was writing on how best to deal with the fact that life is intrinsically meaningless 2350 years ago. Disregarding the lessons learned from previous generations, smacks of willful ignorance.
Sargon is back!!!! man I've missed these
I am enjoying you back as your old self sir please continue
As a young adult brit I fully understand this identityless corporate cog philosophy.
Sooner or later the corporations are going to have to start counting their chickens.
The rise of the underground scene of the creative world is not to be ignored, passion will always prevail.
I am Jack's complete acceptance of death
I missed these videos from you, Sargon. Keep it up for as long as you can.
the videos you're casually dropping here lately are such masterful summaries. Its great to have you back in this format and delivering essays that are the product of so many years of work.
Spot on. Gen Xer here and can confirm all in this video and add being the latch key gen, all my friends parents were divorced (mine too) so we raised ourselves since mom or dad had to work. We were age 30 at 13, went thru our hell raiser phrase after high school, became 13 at 30 then looked around and said "what do we do now?".
This feels familiar...
yup
_"Conflating an entire generation of people is a historically recent, and stupid trend."_
_"Anyway, let's do just that."_
you triggered?
@@ItsaKindOfMagic86 no, I'm fine. How you doing?
WWII was the burden of one generation, Vietnam that of another. It's not wrong to group generations by the populace-wide and temporally local burdens they face.
@@somercet1 But it's probably wrong to assign a single psychological profile to an entire generation of tens of millions.
GenX had the late 80s / early 90s rave culture. Something the millennials could only dream of.
millennials are trying to rip that experience off, they fake it if they cant take it
We you looked like weirdo Zoomers with normal level of testosterone.
How did that benefit the quality of life for Gen-x?
Fun times, good memories sure, but is it not just another facet of the circus and endless distraction?
If we are talking about finding true meaning and purpose for a generation, in order to keep the human species alive, what role do raves play aside from promoting club hook-up culture and possibly drug use?
@@astrovarius543paved the way for endless childhood. Babylon.
@@astrovarius543 we had something of our own which our parents generation couldn't thathom... Even with the 60s thing.
It was organic, unlike today's various plastic cultures and was very exciting at the time. It's easy to forget how different it made you feel from the rest of society.
Yes drugs had a lot to do with it, but it also created so much more. A large chunk of GenX carried this feeling with them into later life, I can't explain it in a YT message... But if you know, you know.
Those from this time are in their mid/late 50s to late 40s. I wouldn't describe them as perpetual children like the millennials.
That chart on fertility rates is terrifying. Nothing more points to the absolute collapse of civilization than that.
Normally population decline would be a sign that something is wrong with the system and needs to change. Thanks to unlimited third world human capital, the people in control of wealth and power get to ignore the problems and ride off into the sunset with record profits and real estate prices. All it cost them was cutting the legs out from everyone that comes after.
Sargon sadly is true about millennials. i found myself thinking in the same way as a millennial when i was younger. I've now realised this mistake and am trying to fill the god shaped void within myself as i once used to reject God and spirituality. Now im trying to champion it and see the flaw and wish to fly outside of the cage. Unfortunately, there isn't enough of my generation who has made this discovery yet. However there is definitely a tetonic plate shifting in our culture, and the rumble is being felt by a lot of people. I have genuine sympathy for the zoomers my generation helped enforce the cage upon you after we had lived in it for so long i wish to free your mind.
God's not dead, nor doth he sleep. Many are the dead being dragged into life, and I await his next movement with trembling anticipation.
These types of videos are what got me into Sargon's channel back in the OG gamer gate era. I'm glad to see they're back, and somehow even better.
“Working jobs we hate to buy shit we don’t need”. One of the greatest lines ever.
I'd like to point out that all these generational takes are extremely urban. The rural populations, at least in my country, are/were nothing like you're declaring here.
I willingly socialize with zero millennials as you describe here, although I meet many of them whenever I find myself in literally any metro area.
The city people are exactly as you described, however. I just wanted to point out the distinction because lumping a bunch of combat veterans, rural blue collar workers, people who literally cut their own wood for heat, raise their own food, and respect each other and their property are literally nothing like the urbanized animals you're associating us with.
the thing is the urbanized animals are the loudest and are the ones forcing changes
the ones you are apart of remain quiet and keep to their own, they dont ruffle nor stir up anything, thus go unnoticed
Carl has no idea about zoomers. He spends his life on Twitter and decides he is the barometer of the young.
@@ItsaKindOfMagic86 I would compare us more to bears, raccoons, and porcupines. When left alone to go about our business we're no bother. But, depending on the context of the conflict and situation we're in dealing with us on an individual basis can be extremely hazardous to your physical health.
There's a very real fear from the city folks around me at least that trespassing against us is very likely to result in hot lead at high speed from the preferred delivery device of the one aggressed upon.
They know, and it's why they don't venture too far out of town or even visit the expanses of public land around them. 🤣 They're not at all hard to spot either.
Yep. I agree, the true divide is between Urban and rural. As it always has been now I think about it.
@@entropybear5847 this has always been the case. Even Virgil talks about it
You have basically explained why I have felt like I am fighting my entire life, alwasy fighting against the current but without trying to be contrarian at all. I am a millenial but only by 3 years. I truly hate my generation, generally speaking, and have recently been relaizing why I have always gravitated towards GenX culture from the 80/90s. I have always felt like I was born in the wrong era. I created my band and music becasue I wanted to do exactly what you describe and become the kind of person that I wished existed in the world and bring something into the world that I wanted and felt it lacked. The moment I decided to do this my eyes began to be opened to a lot of what you have so succinclty described here. Thank you for providing so much clarity. A truly great video.
💯
- a fellow millennial that also detests our generation
In the same boat my dude. Born in late '83 and I find your average millennial to be repugnant.
@@ItsaKindOfMagic86 It's nice to know I have not suffered our generation from the inside alone. 🤣
@@ironhead2008 Dayum, you were born a whole ten years before me. You have had to suffer and extra ten years of this cursed generation... I feel for you, dude. 🤣
Not the same without the streetfighter music at the end
As a Zoomer Sargon.... Values. Reject collectivism, embrace morals and individualism.
That said, many people I know in my generation are basically Millennials 2, Commie Boogaloo.
Born in '90, and only in the last couple years really started to question who I even am, what my goals are, and what *I* want from life, rather than existing in the trendy progressive pool I was in. I was young enough to not properly understand Fight Club back in the day, but man, this video hits home right now.
Nah, that's just midlife crisis. Get a motorcycle.
Oh man, it's been a long time since I've stared at this Akkadian head for 10-20-30 minutes with so much interest. Keep em coming Sargon!
The Don back in his armor, unshackled, rising again in full glory as the GG legions march again!
As great as LE is, there nothing like you being on this channel, man, now I just hope to see the Capo, Pastor Louie again as well.
Born in 79. I’m a xennieal. 77-82. Micro generation. Our childhood was the last one before the internet.
Nobility.
@@andersd8956 Oh man, and they are STILL doing it. I'm a Gen-Xer, and I'm not looking at an inheritance but I saw something being passed around the Boomer-net, a.k.a. Facebook, recently that had the Boomers all applauding. It was a bullet list of advice for life after sixty.
MANY pieces of the advice basically boiled down to: squander any sort of inheritance that you could leave your kids or grandkids. Splurge like crazy. You can't take it with you, you earned it, you should enjoy it before you die. Essentially, you don't owe anyone anything.
I find that idea horrifying. I aim to leave my child a legacy she can build on. Of course, that's not my sole aim in life, but the idea that I would just save up for a lifetime and just blow through it with no consideration for what I'd be leaving my kids to me just sums up the complete lack of spiritual vigor and complete self-absorption that the Boomers, in general but not always - possess.
I would hardly say that was the last generation to grow up without the internet. Just because the internet was invented then, doesnt mean average people had access to it. I was born in 95 and grew up without the internet. Smartphones are what gave average people internet access and that wasn't until the late 2000s/early 2010s.
@@NickMachadoyou're correct.
Carl. The Zoomers that will listen are already 8 steps ahead of you. Welcome to the party.
It’s pseudo-therapy. Real therapy is about psychological change. The goal of psychotherapy is identifying the things we do that get in our own way, deciding to do something about it, choosing the something, and doing it.
What's next, Pastor Louis returning?
I pray for his safe return 🙏
Missed his Copcasts and sermons. 😔
We all pray 🙏
Oh Pastor! Return to thy flock!
I think you are missing something in this, Carl.
I was born in 1981, so I think this makes me a Millennial (it's not a concept I pay much attention to) and I as well as the majority of people I grew up with, do not fit into the typical Millennial framing.
I am English, and I grew up on a very poor council estate (in the 80s and 90s, it was rated as the worst/most dangerous estate in England and Wales by the government. It was all over the papers at the time, and most of the people who made it dangerous thought of this as a badge of honour. As of 2021, there are 1,300 houses on that estate. When I lived there, the number was around 800; we had 2 small police stations just on that estate and then a larger station which served tge whole town, but the coppers in the main station spent most of their time on my estate). The entire estate was essentially an under class. Think Millwall supporters as a council estate... no one else liked us, but we didn't care.
I think the Millennials you are describing here fits perfectly with the middle-class Millennials I've met, but it is nothing like the people I grew up with. That estate was mainly made up of people that London borough councils couldn't handle or didn't want to bother with, so they paid my borough council to house them instead. We had gypsies, football hooligans (at one point, we had the top boys of Millwall and West Ham firms living on the estate at the same time; the estate was neutral ground. A small island surrounded by people who hated us just by virtue of postcode, although for some it was warranted, I admit) as well as other 'undesirables'. We had a community spirit that was very weird, but it took me joining the Army to realise how weird it was. Even our criminals had a moral code: we are all poor on this estate, so no stealing from your own. Woe betide anyone who broke that code!
In a way, I miss the estate as it was then. It has since been flooded with immigrants from all over the world. The community spirit has gone (I personally believe this was done by design) so now there are constant fights between Albanians, Nepalese, and whatever new group gains any number sufficient to create a gang. Adult men beat children up for stepping foot on the wrong turf. These fights usually occur over a 5-a-side football pitch and/or the play park; kids can't use either as those spaces are now used to deal and use drugs. The council have effectively created small scale gang wars akin to the West versus East Staines massive from Ali G In Da House... with blades.
I don't class myself as a millennial I was born in 83 and grew up without phones, internet and only 4 TV channels with no remote. I think it should be split up due to how much changed in the 90s and early 2000s
I was born in 1981. I was a latchkey kid. I am Gen-x. I won’t agree otherwise.
@@ispep8882amen. I was born in 1981. I do not have much in common with millenials at all.
I agree. There really is a stsrk difference between those of us that were adults when 9/11 happened and those that grew up afterwards. The world really changed significantly in those Yeats leading up to the crash of 08.
I was born in that transition period also, but grew up with computers, so I have millennial tendencies I guess
"xennials" is the term for those who are born in the millennial bracket but relate to gen x more
Carl can sense the generational ire and resentment of Zoomers and Alpha growing in the next years, and is simply trying to shift the target away from himself (Generation X)
Yeah, it’s insane to watch boomers and X’ers trying to blame millennials (who barely even have children) for the suffering and destitution of the Zoomers.
The past two generations have been nothing but abject cancer
Become Ungovernable.
As an older millennial at 37 years old I can definitely see the points here but not all of us are so insufferable and caught up in feminism and victimhood, and I’d like to think we helped bridge the gap when GenX had its dream crumbling and when Zoomers needed an example of how to rebel against these tyrants, it’s because they looked at those of us who wouldn’t accept their hopelessness and therapy and black pills and have tried to keep those good parts of culture alive
Omg more Don Sarglioni
I can feel a deep wellspring of Nietzche building. Everyone is talking to him or living lives that affirm his wisdom.
Good lord, we've hit a vein of Akkad here!!!
Great to see Sargon back posting on his classic channel
Speaking as a Millennial we certainly did not "embrace the 'latter' slave mentality, killing off their own sense of pride and self worth, abasing themselves into the undifferentiated sludge of equality" ... nay older brother - we were pushed, prodded and FURVENTLY persuaded to pursue the courses in academia that even you now agree was a complete waste of time.
What are a people to make of their elders when the fruits of their advice is nothing? At what point does one need to look inward? At what point does one need to let go?
Bingo, I was born in '92 and all throughout my school years in the 2000s we had it drilled into us "if you do not get good GCSEs you can't do A levels and won't get a job (they called leaving school at 16 dropping out) and if you don't get good A levels you can't go to uni and you must go to uni to get a good job.
University was sold to us as a guarantee of getting a good job, I was told that by just having a degree employers will pay you more. The universities lied and told us jobs in our chosen field were plentiful and just having a degree in STEM will open many lucrative doors.
3 years later you graduate and find all the "jobs" are volunteer positions, often you have to pay to join and so you go off and do a masters degree. Just to be told that that's not enough and you need 5 years experience to even have a shot at an interview, which you don't have of course because you've spent your entire life in education.
Now I'm 31 and retraining whilst working full-time in a bureaucratic job I hate, watching boomers and gen xers walk into overpaid managerial jobs because of who they know not what they know and minorities being promoted because of their race ect.
Then you pick up the electoral sledge hammer and give it to those elders right in the face. When do you look inward? You need to look up. At the final things, the telos that all this living points to. I would recommend the Eastern Orthodox Church, or the Taoist classics (Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tsu's Inner Chapters).
@somercet1 vote for who though? In the UK there is no one to vote for. Labour and the tories are the same party and the viable 3rd parties are all controlled opposition. We ain't voting out of this one.
The way you generalise millennials sounds like a leftist take on race
@@MrMechaMog not quite ... I gave no prescription nor moral judgement - just a literation of a perspective.
I've been loving this return of yours Carl. I speak for everyone when I say we missed this.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
never knew how much I missed the video essays. We're sooo back!
Im stuck in that weird place generation wise. I was born in January 1996. My older family and friends, who are Millennials, tell me im a Zoomer, but Zoomers say im an old man and that im a Millennial. I know, I'm technically a Millennial, but people born 1995 and later dont claim me. I guess it's fitting, being a middle child, lol.
I was born in late 95, September.
My Girlfriend (born in 96) insists that I’m Gen Z, but I refuse to accept it XD
I think 95-96 are the last few years people can claim Millennial-ship, if one wants.
But there is leeway.
I like these musings, they serve not just as a food for thought but has actual meaningful messaging for change. Keep it up.
Depressing that Zoomers see the Gen X nightmare as a dream
Poor kids
This conversation about generations was something I had with my parents a bit ago, who are late boomers and dug our family from near poverty, discussing why the millennials in my age range who're born 1986 - 1990 struggled to find a place in society and didn't have the same opportunities as they did. A lad who I knocked around with who's father is a lovable rouge, started out as a bouncer in the early 80's then to blacksmith and now a bar owner in a rural market town. Both our parents were able to walk out of one job and walk into another, where as we had to hand in cv's or fill out application forms and was soul destroying having to wait for an answer that never came or to say we didn't get the job. My mate struggled more having no GCSE's but is now a valuable KP after bar work in pubs and then found his place in their kitchens.
My father summed up our gap in the millennial generation as the forgotten generation, when the modern era was in mid transition to a more burocratic, materialistic and digitised society and he sympathised with those of us who got left behind due to the lack of opportunities that earlier generations had.
Hope Lotus Eaters is doing well, love seeing Carl back on this channel.
As a Millenial, I believe we are weak because the older generation clipped our wings. Perhaps to make us fit into the cage.
well said
Millenial's were from day one the Boomers retirement plan. I don't know who said it first but it is best said like this; being a Millenial is having to pay for a party you weren't allowed to attend.
i recall in the late 1990s and early 2000s a lot of boomer and gen x college students who were obsessed with social justice activism were spreading their ideals online and mainly targeting the younger millennials, in a way grooming them and setting them up to be over exposed and accustomed to the radical changes the millennials now enforce today
very sneaky and subvertive back then when I look back, the methods used mirror what the millennials use now only more overtly
Our purpose may only be as a wall between those who come after and those who devour. I'd be okay with that.
The "take charge" people often mistake things like avoidant behavior, indignation and intellectual unsureness for weakness when they're signs this person is going through the process of self actualization and its probably the only thing that could course correct for society. Like why should I be gaslight into thinking I`m weak by people who haven't got an insightful bone in their body. I think they just like the thrill they get from using people. Maybe it is in fact them who are the problem? Nah couldn't be.
Just for comparison: I was 11 years old when the Wall has fallen. I even remember the first time the Chernobyl accident was acknowledged in our national broadcast. I lived in a Commie country in Eastern Europe. Politics were (and stays) part of our daily discussions.
Are we part of the same generation? Most probably yes. Do we have different experience? Definitely. I even have different experiences and orientation than 99% of the gals and guys of same age in my country, but we share some cataclismic events which we can relate to: the fall of communism, the first meeting with the Western European Capitalism, the illusion of Freedom, and then the loss of that illusion.
I missed you making videos like this. I like the Lotus Eaters but classic Sargon vids are wonderful. Such a throwback to the 2016 days
Five new videos in a week? Are you planning to use this channel more often?
Serious Zardoz vibes with Sargon's head floating over the landscape
Mostly liberal white women
"AWFL" - affluent white female liberal - one of the most apt acronyms I've encountered in the past several years
nah, mostly small hats
@Chimerick And this is why western society will continue to falter. Naming the small hats is one thing, but not holding women accountable and letting them influence politics is one of the reasons the west has fallen to where it is, not just zionist interests. Women are naturally inclined to be more communitarian and egalitarian because of our biological and social evolution.
Feminism, the sexual revolution, the prominence of birth control & abortion, the rise in socialism, the erosion of traditional gender roles and the nuclear family, and the demonization of masculinity, all stem from a gynocentric social order.
The majority of modern Western men are feminists even without realizing it. Getting men to realize and admit this is like pulling teeth because many men don't want to admit they've been duped.
@@Chimerick The Ben Shapiro's and Jordan Peterson's of the world.
They’re not liberal. Liberal ≠ left wing.
Leftism is antithetical to liberalism.
The American founding fathers were liberals. THAT’s what liberal means.
Powerful love these old school sargon style. More please!!
Bruh i havent even watch the vid yet and I am already wondering what this man is doing back on my feed
Born in 84, so caught in the middle. Thankfully the reservation protected me from a lot what has happened, at the same time it was a form of a cage. I had to break out of that to understand the world and what was beyond that. Being spiritual is what is important to a Navajo such as myself.
The only you and I can do Carl is influence and help as many people as we can, the future will tell us in time what the outcome will be.
We're so back, baby!