Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 21, 2024, 12:54 PMRE, your recent postings on the horrors of underpopulation suggest the young have no purpose.  Most people can't find purpose on their own.  Families gave that purpose.  Children for the most part give parents purpose.  With that purpose gone, most people will have a tall glass of unhappiness.  Not everybody, just most.

I think finding purpose has become difficult for all age groups, but since young people are just starting out in life, having it all out ahead of you without purpose seems like a really long way to go without a destination in mind.  Sort of like looking out on desert in all directions around you and trying to pick which way to go.  All you can do is just start walking.

It's one of the reasons I think Zombie movies are so popular.  People see themselves as Zombies, just blindly walking in a daze looking for flesh to consume.  When you look at other people on the subway, sitting in traffic, waiting on the checkout line at the supermarket, sitting on a park bench with their face inches from their cell phones...they all seem like Zombies too.  Politicians are Zombies...literally, Biden and Trump look like the Walking Dead.  Not only do we individually seem to lack purpose, we lack it as a civilization.  What is the purpose of all this running around to buy new things, see the latest movie, the endless pursuit of "progress"?  For 99% of the population also, it's a constant struggle just to pay your next mortgage payment or car loan.  What is the point of this never ending treadmill?  Even having sex isn't that much fun for young people anymore.

Back in the 60's, hippies had a purpose.  "Turn on, Tune In & Drop Out."  Now, even dropping out doesn't seem possible anymore.  So you take a Gig Job, and you just keep walking toward the horizon.  Everything's the same in front of you, behind you and to either side.  There's nothing there.

RE