
I suspect one problem is the way in which millennials tend to think about and promote morality. Almost all of them appeal to their vision of social justice as if it were self-evident. There is little in the way of reasoning toward one vision or another. The approach is simple: either you agree with a policy or social position, or you are too dumb or dishonest to be taken seriously.
Millennials are coasting on the moral and intellectual capital of previous generations. Young people press for the cause of social justice as if it were a divine right grounded in an objective truth, rather than one way in which we try to make meaning for ourselves in a meaningless world. While it is comforting to imagine belief in equality will continue as an essential part of democra…
…ic demographic ascension tend to assume sufficient ideological uniformity among future generations. As White Protestants die out, there is no guarantee that future post-Christian generations won’t turn out to be hardened nationalists instead of landing somewhere on the spectrum between polite neoliberals and strident socialists. Some post-Christians without access to the money, fame, or success of the professional classes migh…