Why are millennials so desperate for an identity more so than other generations?

Why are millennials so desperate for an identity more so than other generations?

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Probably because globalism has made it hard to have a clear sense of identity for a lot of people.

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Nah, Boomers were fuckwits also

The fuck is this from

Not a bad guess, traditional sense of identity has been thrown away. Also, breakdown of traditional values make people insecure. In turn, this prompts the search for identity.

This. There's always been stupid snowflake me too shit every generation. Just like how old people bitch about the next generation throughout recorded history.

What am I looking at?

Source, I want to go to the guys site and call him a degenerate.

this new shit is far worse and more expansive than the boomer bs

I thought this would be a rare pepe

No nation people and in most cases church. No belonging, no purpose, no reason.
Seriously fuck wage cucks. If you support a western nation with your work today you are retarded and a cuck

Because they have no national one to hold on to since nationalism is bad

because whites are told that they aren't allowed to have a heritage, traditions, or any sense of identity

Your average family trying to raise a millennial.

DELETE THIS

>he can't differentiate a real hipster from a poser

There is no difference, both are fucking gay and dumb.

I only remember Emos in the 00's. Didn't see that other shit till at least the mid 10's.

Look up Adipose-Rex on Deviant Art. And you better be going there trying to redpill him and not fap to his disgusting material.

Focus your attention to the money printing systems of Great Britain, USA, Germany and other places in the world.

They have destroyed traditional culture in a mad effort to globalize and rule a mythic One World Government.

>berg

Anyone else here a millenial that is fucking terrified of what will happen when these egotistical fucking idiots take over?

Simple. Without social media every one could pat themselves on the back for how original their every thought and action was. Now they see that literally millions of other bland morons had exactly the same idea, did exactly the same, revolutionary, totaly crazy stuff, and it robs them of their selfconfidence.

>satanic trips

Don't tell me what I can and can't fap to, user.

Because we have been robbed of any identity or culture that is usually passed down the generations.

We live in a diseased plural fleshpit.

So some wear flannel ironically, drink soy milk and get generic tattoos. Some get Fashed, start shitposting and powerlifting. Almost all of us do drugs, or did drugs. At least, the intelligent ones I mean.

Because they are empty shells who don't have an identity that extends beyond pop culture or shallow political movements. So they cling to commercialized identities or try to copy the visual look of past cultures or contemporary cultures they don't belong to or understand.

All they care about is appearance, so they're devoid of substance.

They've been encouraged to be fearful,much easier to control,take a look at the brexit debate

add fattys to that list
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Because the communist roaches has brainwashed the normies into abandoning faith and national identity. Therefore, they try to identify themselves with other things, and thats the root of all this hipster faggot tranny crap.

Because they have no personality of their own.
I repeated this over and over.
Nowadays generations are cancer. They have no personality so they substitute personality with the things they buy and the things they accept. They have no ideals, no world views, no independent thought. Buy, buy buy, buying worthless things defines me!

And with lack of identity comes the urge to obtain it, but their ways are wrong.

Because of capitalism.
The Teenies go through the rebel phase and dress in properly or even destroy their clothes. 1. This would have meant a hell of a beating back then, because clothes were expensive 2. Common people's clothes were very bland.

Then they could afford it and a market was created. Now we have a whole marketing industry also targeting the hippest of hipsters. They think they are special but in reality they are just consumers like everyone else. I've met some who wear second hand only though, which is a pretty good thing I think.
Not wasted-Not supporting child labour- support private sector.

Faggots

GO BACK TO THE UNIVERSE YOU BELONG IN AND STOP FUCKING THIS ONE UP. OR SEND ME BACK TO MINE YOU FUCKING ALIEN.

Would colonize.

>skeleton expanding and stretching with weight gain
Absolutely nigger-tier.

I'm sad I never got a chance to bang some of the sweet emo pussy when I was in high school.

>passing fad
>real hipster

Because we aren't allowed to have a racial identity, thus it must be replaced with a consumerist one.

Enough with these fucking excuses, let me redpill all of you.
The ONLY reason there's seemingly "more" of these degenerates is because we are exposed to so much more of them and exposed to so many more redpills than previous generations were, thanks to the internet.
This is just like the "why are so many celebrities suddenly dying!" thing, sixty years ago the average person simply was not invested in or exposed to so many celebrity personalities.

>passing fad
>has been around since the 50s in some form

she wants to be Caucasian Cock Colonized

>Canadian
>Not fapping

C'mon now, not fapping is why you shitpost all the time!

Yep (most of this board are millennials anyway).

It's amusing how despite a lot of them claiming to be left wing, they're a bunch of self centred narcissistic pricks with no sense of morality. I've always been altruistic and egalitarian towards people, yet these idiots are a bunch of "me me me" goons. Obsessed with identity politics and social issues rather than geopolitics. They're so vapid and consumerist too, it's amazing how often they bash capitalism/consumerism while at Starbucks. I hate all that shit.

Honestly I'm already suffering depression and it just makes me want to go hermit mode.

Do you think most of my generation is projecting?

They embrace the feelbernhivemind globalism because deep down, they lack altruistic tendencies, and are greedy, self important cunts in their soul, perhaps?

is passing fad since many people decide to go for the appropriation of that style despite the social difference wich the hipster culture was born

sorry my engrish

Are you purposefully ignoring all the hippy commie shit from the 60's and 70's

This. My generation may be a bunch of hiveminding Commies, but at least they're kept docile enough by the internet and consumerism to not raise hell like the hippie kids around that time.

>Capitalism
>Not a fucking issue.

Its pluralist hive mind. Its the culture void brah. Its the emptiness senpai.

Take it from me, a millennial. A fucking white male.

Because we've lost our identity, the Western world has no face now that multiculturalism has taken over. Canadians, Americans, Germans, they're national identity has been stripped away and millennials are just so desperate for one they'll dress up like there grandparents did at their age just to belong somewhere...

>i dont like what other people wear
>THEY'RE the ones with the problem

No. It's all you.

Possibly. I think it's partly due to the materialistic and ultra-globalised and capitalist society we grew up in.

because no moral values thanks to atheism, socialism, nwo, feminism, marxism, frankfurter schule and all the degeneracy and bullshit it brought with a society that gets more and more cucked, more gay and frightfully liberal and leftist. anti-fascism is the new fascism.

it ruined the core family bonds as well.

I think a lot of it comes from the struggle for acceptance by the previous generation, while still trying to maintain a unique identity. The shift in how the world operates since the last generation is massive. The internet, globalization, mass comm in the palm of your hand, instantaneous information that has been filtered and brought to w/e organization's bias.

The world has become much larger, and much faster. All of our information is about quick regurgitation and not mastery or critical understanding. Now, we have educated a large chunk of millennials in college to believe things that are starkly different from the reality they've known and the values they've been taught.

Literally our generation is locked in a battle for mind control and position control. And the whole time, the majority of our peers will very much be these self centered, completely unaware, truly actually truly bigoted, and oddly racist, despite the fact that they tout their moral superiority over everyone and suppress free speech etc.

it's a shit show and I think most people just want to be someone/something consistent that's accepted. But when you live in a society where simply stating a neutral opinion will result in social stigma, being ostracized , or belittling and insults, what the fuck are you supposed to do?

Get fit, get a job, fuck bitches, wait till the world burns?

Yeah I totally agree but when I hear the word capitalism I get this cringy "fuck you socialist pussy, muh constitooshun" feeling deep down in my testicles.

Something I need to work on I guess. My Muricanisms.

But you're entirely correct. Most women our age are ruined methinks.

They're attempting to be like the bohemians of old. Except rather than forge their own identities, styles and philosophies, it's more of a top trumps game of who can purchase the most obscure consumer goods in an effort to peacock. Some of them carry books, but don't let that fool you. They as vapid and brainless as your average juggalo, but at least juggalos don't try and distance themselves from juggaloism, or posture by getting the most obscure clown makeup.

As for how this 'movement' came about. It's probably falling educational standards in the 90s and the self esteem movement telling every child back then theyre special without educating them to actually become special so they take solace in becoming egocentric consumerist sponges. CUNTS

>No. It's all you.

don't be stupid, leafcuck. there is a correlation between how people dress and how they are on the inside. a tumblrina with unnatural dyed hair and a body full of tattoos mostly likey has problems like a broken family, no dad anywhere to be seen or several mental disorders. a hipster like the ones in the pic are bound to be shitty people. those are the degenerates who have no political education and just care about consuming artsy media bullshit. I mean "meta-nerd" already sounds shallow as all fuck. seriously now.

I know what you mean, but with the way current trends are going, capitalism will outgrow the need for humans via automation. It really is just a matter of time before capitalism run rampant causes the downfall of the working man. At this point, people will loathe capitalism while the masses suffer and the elite don't. Sad thing is, people don't realize this is always how it's been and that won't change for anything.

You know how you can look back on the 60s, 70s, 80s, and to a lesser extent, the 90s and you get a unique vibe and style (well for me, 60s and 70s kinda blend a bit, but whatever). All that decade distinction dropped off after we hit the year 2000. After that, everything became a homogeneous pile of generic shit. Coincidentally, I became an adult shortly after the year 2000.

>Why are millennials so desperate for an identity more so than other generations?

watch The Comedy 2012

>The Mountain Man

I hate this fucking shit. Half these tards would have died in a week if they lived in the frontier 150 years ago.

Because they don't know the struggle of a real war.

emos look great compared to this modern sjw hipster trash. at least emos were almost goths.

Deep insight user.

Its probable that the boost the GOP has been getting in terms of populist turn out is from a last ditch effort, or a show of will that we are still very much willing to compete. Common people just need protection from the people who practice usury and the mega banks and big business' bullshit practices.

Its a predator environment, and I think, after many years, average conservative voters are realizing this. That the left wasn't entirely crazy, and that we have been manipulated by the neocons for a long time.

Genx here. Don't worry boys, we'll carry your cuck'd asses into the next century. Now be a good generation and make my double double bitch.

>2016

so cute when yall pretend you are relevant

A leaf, calling us cucked.

Next level irony. Good shit.

Don't be disrespecting The Nation user.

That's an interesting point about conservatives waking up to their own hypocrisies and bullshit. I would agree. I would also say that the left is more entrenched in idealistic politics than ever before.

When I was young, I grew up around my family. I observed many of the interactions my parents and grandparents had. My grandparents were the epitome of conservative, whereas my mom became one of the bra-burning generation. I listened for years as my mother would condemn and contradict everything my grandfather said politically. She seemed so sure of herself that I went along with almost everything she had to say.........until i became an adult. Then I realized (very harshly) that my grandfather was spot on about so much.

A person needs to simply be a free thinker to see the abundance of disgusting double standards, reverse racisms, and (most importantly.....) propaganda that's being pushed.

That in itself is another huge issue (that colleges and schools in America are making a conscious effort to dumb down the population). Imagine the left of today, them in their insanely hypocritically and bigoted form, imagine the left of tomorrow, after 8 more years of this shit, and no checks on college campuses. We will be a parody of ourselves.

its the one that triggers me the most

I really hate them

We've got a lot of work to do.

i have a simple explanation that leads to a more complex explanation

basically what society finds acceptable has slimmed down significantly and everyone is forced to "belong" otherwise they will be cast out
now questions like why society is less accepting and more fixated and strict on how people should look and talk is for another discussion.

>Why are millennials so desperate for an identity more so than other generations?

Because they have none.

Someone who has nothing to believe in, would believe anything.

The saddest part is, even though you may say that with a slight hint or tone of jokiness to it (sorry if you didn't difficult to convey emotions via text of course), that's exactly what has to happen for this shit to stop.

I have 2 nephews that don't have a father in their life because their mother cheated on their dad with 2 guys and then filed for divorce. I have bore witness to her shittalking her husband and actively trying to sabotage her children's relationships with their father because he wasn't being cooperative with money for HER INDIVIDUALLY.

I speak with them about the dangers of the world, and always give them the differentiation from something that is anecdotal from me or may contain a bias, vs something that can be proven w/ statistics. Whenever their mother of grandmother hears me talking to them, they will attempt to insult, shame, or belittle me and tell my nephews not to listen to their uncle. Fortuitously,I've warned them of how insults are a male tactic but shaming (esp unnecessarily) is a woman's tactic. They are beginning to see the hypocrisies of the world today, but they are still hesitant to believe because what they've been taught. Lots of work to do indeed.

This type of absolute societal faggotry has honestly forced me to become active against this shit. If any of you have any actual honest suggestions for how to fight back in a meaningful and non-toxic way, let me know.

Millennials are bad but a lot of the truest bullshit gets unfairly stuck on them, like Safe Spaces, banning speakers in college and the needing everything to cater to their interests. This is the Snowflake Generation (special snowflake). I'd say 23 years old and younger. If you are 24-32 you would be in the Millennials that are merely fucked up from too much globalism and never having a decent job out of college on average.

I also think Gen X is too big too. I think at 37-46 you are the kids of Young Boomers. They grew up in the 80s and are the most bro-tier generation, they still dig Ninja Turtles and Nickelodeon but also have a good head for business and start Tesla. The Gen X who are 36-40 are the ones who had kids at 18-22 which became Snowflake. Snowflake will be a tiny but extremely destructive generation.

I think DeGen X had Snowflake as an answer to both Boomers lies and older X's cynicism. They wanted to ensure their kids got free information and no painful experiences because they saw how angry Gen X was from drugged out Boomers. Thus the Helicopter Parents were born and technology helped keep up the protective bubble on Snowflake. People could now curate their entire lives online, speaking to literally only who they wanted too, seeing literally only the movies and shows they wanted too, doing nothing but being in their rooms and going to private school/day care and they were the most awarded and coddled generation ever.

They go to college and say "hey, I am paying all of this money and I can't take a bit of criticism so you should CATER to ME" again wanting to "curate" if you will all the experiences they receive in college.

This toxic stew of entitlement, lack of backbone or character, no actual real world experience or defense mechanisms, and being used to have everything literally to the last word belong to them in life, made Snowflake the dangerous force for evil they are.

It mostly isn't Millennials fault.

ask a hipster who has lived in boston (allston), new york city (williamsburg), hollywood (silver lake), san francisco (the mission), and berlin anything

>tfw u hate everyone

cont.

i think the problem in a nutshell is this.
in order to be a functional member of society you need to have a grocery list of things, some of which you cannot control.
for example more people think they should be good looking and have degrees so they destroy themselves in the process to get there. the narcissism and "me" thing is partly due to boomers having such ridicules standards from their own sons and daughters, and they constantly brainwash them that they could achieve anything instead of directing them to use their best abilities and strength's

High test

I'll bite. Since you named some of the biggest cities, most degen thing you've witnessed but not been part of?

>I thought that the second I saw it

You and I have been here too long

in san francisco i saw public blowjobs 20 feet from my front door during folsom street fair

>picture related

yeah they're over the top in san fran :(

Stories of hollywood? My xp in hollywood has been interactions with disgustingly artificial people.

Hmm?
Oh, oh right
DA JOOS!!!!

Its common to reduce the lack of sentimental clarity to autism on /pol. I did mean to imply humor, but not to take away from the reality of the situation, or what virtue requires of us.

I rarely have a heart to heart, ever, especially not on /pol but man I'm in the same boat. I could have had kids and a (probably broken) family by now. I could be dead or in jail or all messed up from the wars like some of my other friends. But it was that will for deliberation, which I learned from the much older generations as you did, and I'm grateful I didn't go in for any of that stuff.

I have a young cousin, the kids an emotional wreck b/c of a VERY similar situation. I try to talk to him and teach him. But honestly, I think its just the personal investment of time and effort, letting them know you give a shit. Even if its just teaching them how to throw a football, or wrestling, or go fishing, w/e. They value that, and it shows in their behavior ad mindset.

I even do that with dates. Just anything to get them away from the television, away from the phone, away from the pop music, unplug them from the machine. Its like most people return to sanity for a short period of time in those circumstances.

Nature opposes degeneracy. Not just excellent shit posting. I'm being honest here.

I fucking hate being associated with this shit.

nice dubs. i really hated LA. everything about it, and had to leave as quickly as possible.

they were even worse than SF hipsters.

money =/= authenticity, but in LA that's not the case. delusional fucks.

one 'friend' had his dad buy him a $5m loft in silver lake to do coke and bang no-list actresses.

weird vibe. i was there right after college, and everyone was /so old/ yet so lonely.

This.
Every hipster is a poser by default.

some people actually masturbate over this...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this. I've mentioned the issue of male role models being absent from young men's lives to women and they ALWAYS blame the men soley for the issue. They are completely incapable of understanding how fucked individuals become after the dissolution of a family via divorce. And one needs to only look at divorce stats and reasons to have a good understanding just how little say men have in keeping that unit together. Women literally, both ways, do not seem to give a fuck about breaking up the family unit, so long as it benefits them.

Did LA seem like the people were more beautiful there? That is to say, solely based on physical appearance and beauty standards?

Within the political correctness (secular) cult, all religious, national, and cultural pride has been stamped out. They have been allowed no connection to anything greater than themselves. They have nothing to identify with that has any depth or substance at all. The bullshit you see in the OP is them continually trying to reinvent a wheel that is continually denied them, working with the only resource at their disposal: the most dumbed down incarnation of a western civilization imaginable. They're also largely a group of self centered cowards who are so terrified of genuine, honest communication, that they hide themselves behind silly little hipster personas while their lives are wasted day after day. The lucky ones feel an intense sadness and perception of worthlessness, the worst off find themselves unable to feel anything at all, not even pain.

>Maybe if I pierce my septum I'll feel disgusted with myself

Sorry, you can't even have that.

I'll tell you why

Because the world has gotten to confusing and fucked up while we were growing up, that we don't even know who we are anymore.

When I was a kid, the world was so much easier for everyone. No political correctness or refugees raping civilians. No fucking ISIS attacks on a regular basis and feminism was nowhere near how bad it is today.

Honestly the world is so fucked up now. It's so alien to what I was taught as a kid, so I have to relearn everything about the world and myself. This goes for everyone aged between 13 and 25.

All this shit is a few years behind. add +4 or some shit. Whoever did this is a dumbass.