Within the present flux of Australian ideologies, the one worldview I struggle to identify with most is that dogging Millennials.
At least within their media representatives, the progressive mindset that defines the generation appears to be the culmination of decades of Hegelian dialectical evolution.
Hegel’s thesis of master and slave philosophy proposes (rightly, in my view) that underclasses are more on the ball than elites, which, over time, becomes a mechanism that drives social progress via thesis, antithesis and synthesis.
I think we can see this in the progression of generations. We saw thesis in the Greatest Generation and their wars for freedom.
This gave way to antithesis in the Boomers and Gen X, who expressed hard-won freedoms through self-actualisation in social and economic liberalism.
Then, along come the Millennials, and we have a synthesis. A generation of immensely admirable globalised kids with a powerful post-colonial mentality that combines the fight against fascism of the Greatest Generation and self-expression through the economic and social liberalism of the Boomers that champions the marginalised.
Yet something has gone horribly wrong in this fusion.
In their apotheosis, Millennial generations became so altruistic and historically aware that they lost the capability to empower their own interests within the nation-state structure.
This points to one feature of troubled Millennial psychology. Bred in the era of climate change and its global solutions, the nation-state has ceased to have meaning as a mechanism for political change.
The second perversion of Millennial political expression is that their educations were dominated by a small group of frustrated French Marxists who became nihilist theorists and erased human structures as a source of meaning.
If that wasn’t enough for our kids to deal with, global corporatism and social media emerged simultaneously and occupied the globalism being taught in our schools.
International propaganda engines with unprecedented reach and power thus captured Millennial political expression.
All three of these forces are functions of global capital. The forces of production were thoroughly happy to emphasise the social over the economic because it swept away class consciousness. A fundamental threat to profits.
We must add a fourth production force in Australia that shaped Millennial mindsets.
Over the past three decades, the Aussie economy has transformed from a diverse developed market to a hyper-concentrated politico-housing complex. A merger of Canberra, monetary policy, and banks made housing inflation the centre of Australian economic life.
A part of this devolution was the shift of the media from an objective gatekeeper of truth to a purveyor of property propaganda in aid of its own declining profits.
This has helped create a perpetual phony political discourse that promotes fake solutions to an immigration-led housing catastrophe that knows no bounds.
And so we come to today. Millennials are developing into a political force. They have it in their power to undo the forces of production that have evicted them from their most basic economic right: a roof over their heads.
Yet, instead, their spokespeople in the Greens, Labor, and press are so indoctrinated into the globalist mindset that they are unable to address the interests of their generation.
As the politico-housing complex moves from marginalising Millennials from home ownership to erasing their right to rent a bare roof and four walls, Millennial political responses are hopelessly complex, enervated, and obtuse.
Often, they are so poorly conceived that they support the abuse of their interests as a generation.
The last few days have witnessed extensive Millennial debate on these issues at The Guardian and ABC, yet in both cases, mass immigration was not mentioned as a cause or solution.
How can hours and hours of intensive debate overlook the simple solution of slashing immigration to end the rental crisis and deflate house prices over the long term?
This is typical of Millennial propaganda. It censors or cancels anything it disagrees with.
This is far more destructive to Millennial prospects than the media of capital, which invites all kinds of people on but uses commentary attack dogs to deliver its frame of reference.
Millennial discourse is born from the French theorists mentioned above, who proposed that language is power and that the erasure of specific words changes reality.
The problem is, it doesn’t. All it achieves is the self-brainwashing of a generation turned useful idiots of the very forces of production that marginalise them from their economic rights.
We created a generation of humans perfect enough to inhabit the Starship Enterprise but so over-conscious of historical burden that it cannot meet its own needs.
Let alone the political truth that change never comes easy, is always offensive, and doesn’t happen without violence of one kind or another.
I admire the Millennial values greatly, but they are the most rorted generation in modern history and need to rediscover class and nation-state politics.
Otherwise, the Hegelian march of liberal history will stop at a Millennial brick wall of progressive self-destruction.
