Welcome to the Millennial Midlife Crisis
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Welcome to the Millennial Midlife Crisis
The meaning crisis is the experience of an existential vacuum on a societal scale, evidenced by an increase of anxiety disorders, depression, and suicide rates
Peter Limberg • Becoming a Live Player
We tend to buy into the dominant narrative which says that we’re all going to go to school, and grow up, and go to college, and work summer jobs, and then get a real job, start saving for retirement, work until we’re 60 or 65, then retire, and travel the world. I’m reminding people that no matter how this turns out, it’s not going to be like that a
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The CEO did not acknowledge that the reason millennials might be interested in experiences—like the experience of renting things they could never own—was related to student loan debt, or the recession, or the plummeting market value of cultural products in an age of digital distribution. There were no crises in this vision of the future. There were
... See moreAnna Wiener • Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Comparée à celle des milléniaux, notre réalité n’était pas celle de l’incertitude économique et de l’adversité ; nous avions le luxe d’être déprimés et ironiques et cool et solvables à la fois. L’anxiété et le manque d’affection étaient devenus les traits caractéristiques de la Génération dégonflée, et quand le monde n’offrait pas de coussin financ
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