Millennials, millennials, millennials it seems as if we can’t ever stop talking about these kids or their love of socialism.
As a millennial, I always find it amusing to watch the “old guard” try so desperately to get a grasp of our motivations and often times our lunacy.
I imagine elders trying to understand the youth of the day is a concept as old as society itself.
I find that most contentions with millennials are precarious in nature, but there is one that I find genuine: the rise of socialism and other Marxist ideas among my peers is downright terrifying.
Many have tried to articulate why this particular “ism” is so popular with today’s youth. Some say it’s because of a lack of historical and economic knowledge; some say it’s because of the bleak and uncertain economic future that has been bestowed upon the generation. These points are valid, but I feel they miss the mark almost completely.
Forget about your rationality for a moment and you may be able to see what I see.
I see a generation living in a truly rational era. We are long past “God is dead,” we are now living on his all but entirely rotten corpse. So very little is intact of the cornerstone of Western society, that it makes sense to me that millennials are the most susceptible (generation) to the dangers of “isms” because their options are to either grasp desperately to dead ideologies or slip into a dark nihilistic abyss.
How else do you expect us to learn up from down?
The rational mind is a deceptive one. You can make a logical argument for anything – there are people actually fighting for pedophile acceptance!
So, therefore, the first man to come along screaming of revolution can take full advantage of the youthful craving to change the world – and most importantly give them their first sense of purpose ever.
A purpose is what we’re looking for, nothing more.
This criticism can be said for anyone who whole-heartedly believes in any ideology; it’s just that libertarianism, or say, liberalism or conservatism has never killed 200 million people, so I’m less concerned with those particular beliefs.
In a post-“God is dead society,” we will continue to see the rise in utopian ideals and the massacres that come along with those ideals until we find a way to revive God himself with our rational minds.
I understand the criticisms of Christianity; I’ve been quite the critic myself. But, I’m beginning to understand the father like representative that God is to Western society.
David Foster Wallace once said, “The postmodern founders’ patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans.”
When you have an overbearing father, the best way to combat his militance is to become strong and independent, to become your own separate entity.
Just because you find your father tyrannical doesn’t mean you should murder him in cold blood, you’ve got to find a way to bring him down to size.
We live in a time where we could be cultivating the greatest minds in history.
Information is abundant and affordable – the majority of history’s greatest books are available for free, or at most, for 99 cents.
But instead, the youth and the majority of elders are captivated by ideologies and hold no interest in becoming individual thinkers; because that would be difficult, it would require the type of discipline only a father could provide.
* Christian Farrar is a comedian, podcast host, and often times and accidental provocateur. He has been an activist for libertarianism for the last three years.
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