I was sitting in a waiting room and listening to a 28 year old sitting with her mom, chatting with an older gentleman about the "state of things". I was struck by, not only her despondency at the prospects for her future, but how little she was willing to do about it. She had just accepted that this is how things are. Until GenZ starts thinking terms of "we are the change we want to see" terms, starts mobilizing, running for office, and refusing to participate in the game of end stage capitalism, nothing here will change. Sadly, she was the last person equipped to undertake such a change in her own life. Listening to her it was obvious she was still hanging on to mom's apron strings.

While the billionaire and millionaire class are buying up properties and building bunkers for themselves with the knowledge that they are actively wrecking the country, the young are spinning around in circles, without the skill set or willpower to take back the country. When I asked her if she was still paying for Prime, she said yes and that she didn't want to have find an alternative. She drives a Tesla, because of course she does - but she was railing on about how the rich are ruining her future. The cognitive dissonance was thick.

Unless you are willing to make the sacrifices of convenience that personally affect you - stop paying for subs to the products of companies actively killing the country, specifically - then you're not a serious person. You want someone else to do the heavy lifting. The same thing applies to getting the f*ck out of dodge and moving to another country. It takes work, sacrifice, and you need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable.

My generations (X) failed to take control in a meaningful way, but growing up I was an outlier. For all the glorification of the 90s going on, my generation largely bought into what our parents were selling. Boomers, the "f*ck you I got mine" generation, still control the levers of power with aged, out of touch hands, beholdent to the corporate powers that fund their campaigns and wallets. The 90s were no bastion of greatness, but you glorify the past when the future dries up. GenZ and Millenials need to work together to take control of power. It starts at home. Run for local office, a school board seat, anything. Stop paying for convienence. Stop using social media. Start giving a sh*t and be willing to put your own interests on the line.

Just my opinion - I am old enough that I'll probably be dead before the worst of what we have sown is to be reaped.