The Great Millennial Meltdown
The young and the hopeless: A new survey consisting of 2,000 millennials (ages 22-38) has revealed some troubling statistics regarding how young adults see themselves in comparison to both their …
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The Ys are a lost cause but with the Zs there is hope
Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. I blogged previously about the …
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No free speech, thanks; we’re Millennials
Another day, another survey paints a worrying picture of the attitudes to freedom of expression in the home of the First Amendment. Commissioned by the Campaign for Free Speech, the …
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Why the children’s crusades
Question asked: Does anyone else find it strange that the allegedly scientific "climate change" movement is being led by a 16-year-old girl and justifying its public policies on the homework …
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What to do when your elders commit a thought crime?
If you are a woke Millennial, chances are at least some of your older relatives – parents, grandparents, uncles – are not just an embarrassment but a menace, using their …
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Socialism and crystal energy
Jessica Roy at “LA Times” writes an interesting piece on “How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals”. To be fair to Gen Ys, they are of course not the …
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The world to end; Millennials hardest hit
If Millennials strike many of their elders as rather feckless perpetual adolescents who live in the present and don’t think of the future, it might be because they actually think …
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Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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The End is Nigh: Millennials hardest hit
Religious impulse must be strongly imprinted in a human psyche indeed. As fewer and fewer people seriously subscribe to traditional religions, the instinct and the patterns of belief merely get …
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Red stars in their eyes
Irony is still not dead, despite never-ending attempts on its life – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to slag off capitalism at an event to which tickets cost between US$1325 and $1650: …
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Yes, please don’t breed
There is now a group of some 60 men and women apparently, and no doubt growing fast, not least thanks to all the extra publicity, called Birth Strike. They, you’ve …
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Socialism as a Millennial religion
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed that history repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, …
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Chrenk Youth
As the Millennials the world over seem to be going ga-ga for socialism, there is one country that’s bucking the trend: In Poland, the young generation’s shift to the right …
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X, Y, Z of the civilisational decline
The children are coming home to roost: No longer the new kids on the block, Millennials have moved firmly into their 20s and 30s, and a new generation is coming …
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Is Tim Soutphommasane an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in drag?
At “The Sydney Morning Herald”, the former race discrimination commissioner Tim Sensitive-About-His-Name sings the praises of one of the new leaders of the opposition to “Orange Man Bad”, “She Guevara” Alexandra …
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Politics is getting nastier because we’re getting dumber
An interesting argument from a British politician and writer Dan Hannan: The fall in IQ scores in the West is perhaps the most under-reported story of our era. For most …
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No sex, please, we’re Millennials
Social and religious conservatives rejoice: teenagers and young people today are having far less sex than a generation ago; teenage pregnancy rates are down to only a third of what …
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You’re only as old as the woman you feel – or want to feel
Gender and sexuality being fluid, and increasingly colour and ethnicity too, why not age? When you abandon any objective standards – because they reflect the power structures in the society …
Read More Traumatised by Trump
Yesterday I wrote about what I see as mass hysteria gripping significant sections of the left, namely the seemingly genuine conviction that Donald Trump is Hitler and that the United …
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The Weakest Generation
Depression, mental illness, chronic stress and anxiety, and self-harm are all serious and often tragic and devastating problems for the sufferers and those around them. Sadly, and counter-intuitively, they seem …
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