The doomed, the millenials : Part II

Anushruti Adhikari
Sep 6, 2018 · 3 min read

There was this BBC joke that said if Shakespeare was born in 21st Century, he would probably have compiled all of his works in a rap, because he would have all of thse 21st Century distractions around him.

So in the last part I talked about how us millenials have sources of information floating around our heads when none of it can actually penetrate our brain. At this rate, our willpower is useless, our creative space is falling apart, add procrastination to that hot mess and voila, you discover the meme your life has become.

We millenials are not to be blamed, because we are humans born during the progressive era, when the tragic wars were pushed far behind and developments were popping up all over the world.

In the era of the information boom, we probably remember 20% of the information to which we give 80% of our time (Pareto Principle) and yet we still need to mindlessly swipe our thumbs, not because we’re looking for something fascinating, but because this is what we have been doing for a very, very long time.

Amongst all the uploads and downloads, follows and friend requests, emojis and gifs, we forget what we are doing or what we are looking at, mostly forgetting if whatever we’re doing is actually even worth it.

And no, the worth of something cannot always be measured by the likes or views it has.

Would you jump off a building if everyone else did the same?

You wouldn’t. Or maybe you already have.

1,44,73,34,732 times.

It would take a while to deconstruct the “Why” more than “What”. Don’t let the crippling technology take all the blame. We have the education system that desperately needs a reform, the society is not progressing as fast as we want, we’re dealing with problems we really didn’t think we needed to (stupid flat-earth society) and you get the rest of the idea.

About the “What”; what is happening — we’re soft in the head, hard on our fingers for now. As long as we fall in the age group that has grown up but is allowed to fail, we will indulge ourselves in the act becoming cover artists, Youtube legends, Snapchat sensations and DIY experts. Sure, they’re all ideas for a creative get-popular-quick scheme, but we know it’s not going to stay for long. A lot of us seem to be doing, trying, or atleast imagining to be one of the above.

We do though, have our beloved category of self made entrepreneurs, the group that takes our attention the best, and I highly encourage those who come in this category. But again, going back to Part I, I’m tempted to ask, “We have the energy but are we ready for the consequences? Can we really cope with the possible failures that can arrive?”

Or, before that, I should probably ask, “Are we really capable of working on our own idea, without observing the process of another one coming to life?”

So to answer your question, we are, ladies and gentlemen, in a digital bubble. We have been raised delicately and we are just starting to work on ourselves. In the process, because we are lucky to be in quite a developed era, we have faced relatively small obstacles in the history of mankind, we believe in changing the world but feel nauseous when our wifi is down, when we zoom out from our screens, we see the world we don’t want to see, an already created Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” scenario, when the world crisis hasn’t even hit us yet, we think we can do “something in life” but we are so, so far from ready.

And finally, and I feel like I should mention this, we complain and confess endlessly while still managing to fit in time for watching people who feel mighty when they eat detergents.

Should I say more? I can’t. Sad to say there is so many more reasons to believe why millenials are doomed, but enough for today.

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