One useful lens for understanding the millennial identity crisis is the simultaneous thinning-out, dissolution or disruption of long-standing social substrates for intimacy, self-development & meaningful work.
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Marriage & sex rates have plummeted. At best, having a family is an Old Timey choice; at worst, Do You Breeders Hate The Environment? Gender relations are increasingly unhinged, Tinder's the default for meeting people & nobody can afford to give up a rent-controlled studio anyway
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I think a lot of young people are praying this job'll last long enough to get them out from under their crushing debt, hoping that whatever they do will still need doing for 40 more years & wishing *someone* would love them in a way they never learned to love anyone else
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What can anyone do with all this? I don't know. But I really like
@EricRWeinstein's closing comments from his recent appearance on the MIT Artificial Intelligence podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9x2QcZN0 …pic.twitter.com/LYzwd7u5o8
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"You really want to court authoritarian control in our society because you can’t see that people may not be able to defend themselves in the marketplace because the marginal product of their labor is too low to feed their dignity as a soul?"pic.twitter.com/XzhCUyVh2L
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You're in a cheerful mood this morning!
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A very interesting analysis. It's bits like this that make me want to delete Twitter less.
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Regarding plummeting marriage/sex rates, any hypos as to why this is occurring? On an int level, I often feel that our recent sedentary lifestyle kills those natural drives. We spent eons as highly physical hunter-bots, and now we spend our time staring into glowing rectangles.
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It wasn't until 50-100 years ago that a large portion of the population were having children for cheap labor? When it's more costly to have children than the potential returns, I think high-achieving persons are less likely to have children.
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I think your love line is spot on. It's hard to identify where young peoples' cynicism about love comes from, but a lack of strong models from family and early life relationships seems key. Many just seem to not believe romantic love is possible. But how new is that?
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This poignant analysis goes down bittersweet like low sugar lemonade
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Thank you for the stimulating entertainment.
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