What's wrong with Millennials? Part 5 in Current Events

Millennials feel duped into becoming a slave to the system. They see they’re on a hamster wheel that benefits someone else. They perceive that everything is just to make them better slaves. It creates shadows like entitlement. They demand to be seen as important and to be recognized. They reject hierarchy. They lack loyalty and investment within companies. This is the result of the slavery perception that they hold. The life experience of the average millennial has been imbued with powerlessness. A belief in their own incapacity and therefore they have low self-esteem. They believe that the things that they want are not really in their hands. Meaning they’re not the ones who can actualize it. It’s somebody else who can actualize it. As a result, what they do is take what is supposed to be their responsibility, their ability to make what they want to happen and they put it in somebody else’s hands because they genuinely believe it’s there in the first place. They do to anyone they feel has more power in a given situation. This is what other people are calling millennial entitlement. It is when you believe that you can’t create something for yourself so you expect someone else to do it for you. Someone else can create that pay raise for them. Create the life they want. They don’t think they can do it and because nobody is doing it for them then that means they feel like they’re being screwed with. This isn’t to say their perception is accurate. you just have to understand their perception to understand them in the workplace. If you had these optics of being a slave and your boss as a slave owner what would you be sensitive to? How would you act? You would fight for your own self-interest and expect your needs to be the responsibility of your boss and you would always be on the lookout for how you’re being used and exploited. You’d be unattached and uninvested because there’s nothing actually in it for you long term or you will exit the system entirely and become your own boss.

Millennials play a mean zero-sum game because they believe that their bosses and any other players are playing one already. That they are trying to make them a slave. There is no work-life balance for Millennials. None. What millennials desire is a real reworking of what is a fair exchange for their time and energy. Also a reworking of the economy as well so so that they can actually attain those things that they want. That house, that feeling state etc without having to run on a hamster wheel that doesn’t go anywhere.

Due to all of this wounding the millennial generation is obsessed with freedom. They refuse hierarchy, they perceive commitment to be fruitless and they tend to hate rules and that is because those rules are not there for their benefit but for the benefit of other people to use against them. This makes it hard to work with them in a team. Because I said so or because it is just the way its always been done will not cut it for the millennial generation. Especially in the information age.

In defiance, many operate in a mentality of the rules don’t apply to me. The upside? They’re rule breakers. They are incredible innovators. They can be the ones who change the game. The downside? They’re rule breakers who can wreak societal havoc. As a result many millennials have embraced shadow-freedom. This is what is frustrating for people looking at the Millennial generation. It is even frustrating for millennials with other millennials. This shadow-freedom is just a reactivity to imprisonment. To a lack of freedom. It’s not in and of itself freewill. It’s not an in alignment form of freedom. Some examples of shadow-freedom are:
1) Refusing to commit to anything or making a commitment to non-commitment.
2) Refusing to assume responsibility for anything.
3) Remaining unattached and uninvested so you can change course at the drop of a hat.

Many have gotten to a point, especially during this pandemic situation, where they are looking at their lives and are seeing that no amount of energy put towards anything is ever going to guarantee them those things will guarantee them a good life. That it’s basically futile. So many of them just give up. What’s the point? They drop ideas about future goals and it all just becomes about instant gratification in the form of distraction and even addictions.

Millennials who reach this point feel lost and fickle and flip from one job to the next, from one passion to the next, from one relationship to the next. They’re exhausted from the burnout of feeling lied to and taken advantage of from fully committing to a pipe dream only to figure out that it was actually just a pipe dream. A pipe dream they’re expected to be fully committed to that’s never going to pan out.