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Note to my fellow millennials.
We have a generational angst and feeling of displacement that only we understand.
I’ve tried explaining it to my closest friends from a different generation - and they listen/empathise but don’t *get it*.
We have a generational angst and feeling of displacement that only we understand.
I’ve tried explaining it to my closest friends from a different generation - and they listen/empathise but don’t *get it*.
Generational experiences are unique and non-transferable.
So how do you change systems if you cannot recruit people across generations into our condition?
You can either protest or compete.
So how do you change systems if you cannot recruit people across generations into our condition?
You can either protest or compete.
“Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. The rest is commentary.”
David Sloan Wilson
Millennials need to participate in the *building* of new social operating system — instead of operating within or protesting the existing one.
David Sloan Wilson
Millennials need to participate in the *building* of new social operating system — instead of operating within or protesting the existing one.
Not as a sacrifice; but out of self interest.
Want to get rich, stay healthy and have a family?
Ok, exit the current structure & compete against it (as opposed to protesting it with a hashtag).
Want to get rich, stay healthy and have a family?
Ok, exit the current structure & compete against it (as opposed to protesting it with a hashtag).
Protesting the system is a weak, ineffectual way of changing a markets based system.
It requires a high critical energy to work — difficult to generate outside war time.
Naturally, protest is tolerated during peacetime but shut down during war time.
It requires a high critical energy to work — difficult to generate outside war time.
Naturally, protest is tolerated during peacetime but shut down during war time.
It’s easier to compete within the current markets based system that has become prone to capture (eg., bailouts) & manipulation.
Technology reduces the critical energy required to compete effectively (eg., taxi v. Uber)
Technology reduces the critical energy required to compete effectively (eg., taxi v. Uber)
A few years ago a movement called Game B emerged as an alternative to the current consumerism + earth exploitation economy.
It explores a framework to win within the current structure of the world (overfinancialised markets, centralized states, consumerism)
*without* participating in it entirely while using tech.
*without* participating in it entirely while using tech.
This is a useful framework in a post-COVID world. Because the stuff coming down the pike (eg., borders) may tempt us to protest.
I hope we choose to compete instead.
I hope we choose to compete instead.
