In this video I discuss the generational cycles, as per Strauss & Howe. I've seen some compelling arguments that the break from traditional extended-family structures, to be replaced by mass media, has created an acceleration in the production of generational cohorts - creating shorter windows for each generation. I may explore that idea in a future video, but if we're going to argue against the traditional theory, it's still important to understand what we're arguing against.
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So if you've been following me for some time prior to my death and resurrection on YouTube, you might know that generational theory has been something I've been talking about for years.
Specifically, I believe in 2014, I predicted a global civil war was going to kick off in 2018.
And depending on how you measure that, mostly correct.
Since that time, there's been a lot of talk about Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
And these colloquial definitions that are being applied are in my view as a non-professional historian and as a reader of Strauss Howe's generational cycle theory, they're being misapplied.
But they are on to something.
They are on to something.
They've just got a few of the technical details wrong.
And so what I'd like to do for y'all right now is explain who these generations are, what their birth years are, And make some loose predictions about what we can expect over the next 30 years.
So first, some definitions for you.
Generations follow an 85-year cycle.
And the four of them, they've got a winter, spring, summer, fall aspect to them.
You've got the nomad generation, which is the children that don't receive enough protection when they're young.
That'd be the winter.
That'd be Gen X, the latchkey kids.
These are 1965 to 1981.
Then you get the spring generation, the hero generation, which is the millennials.
This is also when you get the major conflict, typically.
Every 85 years, Strauss and Howe tracked this back a thousand years.
Every 85 years you get a major combat, a major conflict that redefines everything in society.
Our last one was World War II.
And the one that we've just gone through has been the social justice internet wars and the lockdowns during the COVID era.
I don't think there's going to be a hot war.
I'm very, very confident it's not going to go hot this time around.
Because we've got nukes, essentially.
And it's just, it's a really bad idea.
Nobody wants to do it, which is why the war has been more inward.
And millennials.
Sorry, I should give the dates.
Gen X is roughly 1965 to 1981.
Something around there.
I would put the millennials as 1981 to 2002.
2002 being the year that the War on Terror really kicked off.
This permanent war situation, which lasted about 20 years.
Generation Zyklon is, from the beginning of the War on Terror, You know, 9-11 is what kicked it off, but it was the invasion of Iraq that really cemented this as permanent war in the Middle East that we're never going to win.
That'd be 2002 to about 2023, 2024, which is when the COVID restrictions were dropped.
And then Generation Aleph.
They just started getting born.
Some of them are one years old right now.
This is going to be the prophet generation that reorients us spiritually.
The previous prophet generation was the boomers.
So you can see I'm sticking to the 20-year cycle with this, 20, 21-year, 22-year years, give or take.
I mean, it's always fuzzy at the edges.
Sometimes you got a really long winter, sometimes you got a short winter.
But it still patterns out to these 85-year-olds.
85-year cycles.
More or less.
Nomad, hero, artist, prophet.
The nomads are forced to go survive on their own.
Nobody looks out for them.
Us Gen Xers were the latchkey kids.
The millennials do get good parenting support.
And so they're very, very confident and they work great as teams.
The Lego movie, fantastic movie, actually.
The Lego movie, the theme song was, Isn't it great to be part of a team?
That's a very millennial sort of attitude.
The artist generation, they have nothing to do.
Right?
So if we take, you know, 2000 to 2020, the millennials, for the most part, are fighting all of these, turns out, pointless, wars overseas.
And the Zoomers, Gen Zyklon, has nothing to do except make sarcastic remarks about the previous sacred cows of the culture.
And Generation Aleph is going to be creating a new spirituality for all of us.
Now I want to combine this with another life pattern I've observed.
It's my contention that we age in blocks of seven years.
And there's some evidence, there's some scientific evidence that you replace every cell in your body in seven years.
Roughly every seven years, your taste changes.
You like different foods all of a sudden.
There's a seven-day circadian rhythm.
There's reasons to believe this would make sense.
Prime numbers are very, very useful.
They're used in biology all the time.
Look at cicadas.
There's 13-year cycles, 17-year cycles.
Prime numbers appear constantly in biology.
And so in our race, you spend seven years as an infant.
You have very few memories from the first seven years of life.
You spend the next seven years, seven to fourteen, as a child, and you play with childish things.
14 to 21 is your teenage years, your young adults, where we don't expect you to be responsible just yet.
But we're setting things up to help you grow.
You know, here's a sports team where you can win a trophy and be a hero.
You know, we're going to make sure to support you going to college, that sort of thing.
21 to 28.
This is when we expect you to get your shit together.
In fact, 21 to 28, the world doesn't like you very much.
You can take the first three sevens, the first 21 years, as a positive arc, your hero arc.
These next 21 years are your down arc, where the world is giving you crap, and you're constantly the villain.
And then the third arc is both at the same time.
So, 21 to 28, you're no longer a kid who can make excuses for being an idiot.
In fact, everybody's angry at you for not knowing what you're doing.
This is when a lot of young men go to prison.
But 28, by the time you get to 28, you're the man.
28 to 35, that's where you're properly confident in what you're doing.
You know your way around the world at this point.
35 to 42 winds up being this period of, geez, I've already seen this.
This is a rerun.
I'm bored of this game.
42 to 64, well, that's your third trilogy.
If at 21 you put childish things away, at 42 you get to pick them back up again and enjoy the childhood innocence.
childlike without being childish.
So the first cycle of 21 years is a positive cycle.
21 to 42 is a negative cycle where you grind and everybody hates you all the time and you hate everybody else.
But 42 to 64, you're still grinding and responsible, but you also get to be fun-loving and silly at the same time.
And so I'm going to be looking at the generations based upon these trilogies of trilogies.
So 2025.
Right now, the average Gen Xer is about 50.
Right?
We're in the middle of that.
Well, I guess I'm a grandpa now.
But also I'm still young enough to go on adventures.
And us Gen Xers, we are the experimental generation.
We have experimented with all the things that turned out stupid and the things that have turned out good.
The millennials.
Average millennial is 35.
So they're just finishing up their negative trilogy.
Their Empire Strikes Back.
And they're the most pissed off, the boomers.
Which I totally get.
They're also pissed off at Generation X because a lot of the stuff we did.
For instance, the game of the 2000s, the game, the pickup artistry.
That's one of the things we experimented with.
And it turned out the prize was useless.
That was a bad thing to experiment with.
We also experimented with not being a slave to the corporation.
That's one of the good things that came out of it.
I mean, I think a lot of millennials, they really get Fight Club, the Matrix.
these are like the ultimate Gen X statement on where we came from.
And Generation Zyklon.
Now I would say that their spokesperson right now is Nick Fuentes.
Even though he's technically a millennial.
You'll find the same thing in the 60s.
most popular bands were not actually baby boomers.
They were from the previous generation.
But Generation Zyklon, their sense of humor.
Have you heard about the 6'7 thing the kids are doing these days?
This is hilarious.
So the 6'7 thing is the kids will say 6'7, and the teachers will get really angry about this and ask, what does 6'7 mean?
They think it's like 69, which is, you know, 69 is a Gen X thing.
The Gen X, you know, thumbing your nose with authority, but still hoping we could work together to fix things.
Like, we actually believed in all this shit.
We thought there was a way to turn this around.
We thought if you just reasoned with people, there'd be some sort of hope.
No, we were fools.
Utter fools to think any of that.
Generation Zyklon is not feeling white guilt.
They don't care.
They don't care about your sacred cows.
They're made out of plastic, quite frankly.
Do you take what your average 15-year-old right now is doing?
Actually, come to think of it right now, yeah.
Nick Fuentes is like the first.
He's on the cutting edge, right at the line between the millennials and the zoomers.
Maybe slightly on millennial side.
Again, this is an artist generation.
They've got no power.
They've got no mortgages.
They've got no job opportunities.
They're just going to sit around and notice things.
They're the noticing generation.
So yeah, to reiterate, 2025.
Boom, Gen X, we're 50.
And we're just kind of at the, like, I guess this is life.
I don't got much left.
Some of my experiments went poorly.
Some of them went well.
I hope I can pass on some of the things I've learned that are useful to the youngers.
The millennials, well, God, they've just been fighting and fighting their entire lives.
They're pretty pissed off, and I don't blame them.
Whereas Generation Zyklon is just making everything into an absolute farce, and rightly so.
2030 is going to be a significant year.
I think we all sense that there's a change happening in 2030.
Well, 2030, 2030 is when the average millennial turns 40.
2030 is when the millennials take charge.
And which millennials are taking charge?
I'll tell you what, it's not Hyperborean knowledge that YouTube channel I've mentioned a few times.
He's not the one taking charge.
That guy, I'm pretty sure that guy will be in a good position in five years.
But he's not going to be in charge of anything.
The Karens are going to be in charge.
The Karens who didn't get as much lockdown as they really, really wanted during COVID.
The Karens who out-earned their husbands but still believe that they only earn 70 cents on the dollar.
The Karens that are part of a female-only network of job promotion and yet still believe in the old boys network.
Yeah, they're taking charge.
Them and their simps.
Them and the weak men that have been empowering them this entire time.
Those are the ones taking charge in 2030.
It's going to be kind of ugly.
They're entering that third phase where you get to be childlike again and be a hero, but you're also grinding and responsible.
They're going to very responsibly reignite this idiotic gender war, all of this.
There's going to be 2030 is when social justice episode 2, Electric Boogaloo, starts.
However, Generation Zyklon is going to be 20 at this point.
Half of them will be older.
Half of them will be younger.
The kids that absolutely do not give a damn about what the millennial Karens think are going to be rocking the fuck out.
They're going to be making memes, videos.
They're going to be making stupid jokes like 6-7 that make no sense.
And nothing upsets the Karen more than a joke that isn't funny.
Like, she really wants conspiracy.
And the Zoomers won't give it to her.
So yeah, 2030 is going to be weird, man.
We're going to have a bunch of millennial Karens screaming about patriarchy or racism or whatever, whatever thing they're screaming about because they desperately need something to scream about.
And you're going to have all of these 20-year-old Zoomers going, 6-7, man, 6-7, for real, for real.
It's going to be freaking hilarious.
Us Gen Xers, man, we're going to be like, you know, 55 at that point.
I'll be 50, but the average Gen Xer will be 55, 60.
We should have our stuff fairly sorted out by that point, and we just get to enjoy.
It's going to be great.
2055 is when things finally start turning around for us.
I'm sorry, it's a long time ahead.
2055, the average Gen Xer will be 80.
Most of us will be gone.
I'm still going to be here.
I live to my 90s.
We'll be out of it by this point.
You know, if you can write your memoirs before then as a Gen Xer, try and leave some wisdom for these young kids to do something with, like, that'd be fantastic.
The Millennials, the good Millennials, Like Hyperborean knowledge.
That guy's going to have some sort of legacy he's looking back on.
He's going to be about 65 by 2055.
He's going to be a 65-year-old man.
He's still going to be doing shit.
I don't know what it'll be.
Hiking mountains, riding a motorcycle.
He'll be doing something.
Starting a shipping company.
I don't know.
He's going to be doing something, but he's at the point of leaving a legacy.
Nobody ever gave a damn what he thought.
Nobody in power did anyway.
I give a damn.
You give a damn.
Nobody in power gave a damn.
He's going to leave a material legacy of some variety.
He's going to have built something useful.
The bad millennials are still going to be trying to fight the fight that never happened.
Angry, bitter Karens.
Why don't the kids care about my feminism?
Gen Z will be about 45 years old.
Again, they're an artist generation.
They don't really get to influence history, but they get to opine on it.
2030, 2040, this is when they're turning into adults.
So they've got this great cultural thing going on, but it's a millennial world, and they're forced to work in millennial factories.
What's going to be really interesting in 2055 is Generation Aleph.
These are going to be the new prophet generation.
This is the new boomer generation.
They are going to be powerful psychics.
They are going to, you know, one of the things I think that Gen X, we try to rediscover traditional religion.
We try to reignite the fire of faith.
Now, right now, the millennials are jumping on board with religion because they're team workers.
Like the good millennials are jumping on board with religion.
And it's not going to work because, because politics has replaced religion.
And in the fake field of politics, you've got the active but stupid, or smart but inactive.
Team stupid and team evil.
And evil beats stupid 10 times out of 10.
Our whole premise of how we look at the world, like that political divide that's been imposed upon us, is fundamentally broken.
Conservatives are just liberals driving the speed limit, etc.
Cthulhu always swims left, the ratchet effect, etc., etc.
The entire premise of the entire thing is wrong.
The millennials that really believe in the Progressive Project are doomed to prove how awful it is.
You should probably feel sorry for the Karen millennials.
Gen Z, it's their role to constantly poke holes in this thing.
I mean, again, that 6'7 thing, this is so funny.
This is so funny.
Because, you know, like 69.
69 was rude.
You know, wearing a shirt that says fuck on it, that's rude.
You can ban that in the classroom for good reason.
But 6'7, they're banning the numbers 6 and 7.
Oh, shit.
And that's going to be what Gen Z does.
They are going to be destroying sacred cows their entire lives.
And they're going to be clearing the way so that Generation Aleph, Starting around 2050, it's going to hit the peak around 2055.
They're going to have some new ideas about how we orient to reality.
Like 25 more years, bro.
Two weeks, I promise.
Nothing ever happens.
Things are happening, but the generations happen slowly.
If you're Gen X, what we need to be doing is figuring out what we learned that was true and what we did that was foolish.
And trying to crystallize that knowledge into lessons that we can give the young.
If you're a millennial, the Karens are the ones that are going to be embraced by the system, but their reward is everything they ever fought for being dashed to nothing.
So if you're a millennial, just keep grinding.
You'll get there.
You'll get there, you'll leave a legacy.
The millennials, like, you get material legacy.
Just keep grinding.
Gen Z, keep being awesome.
Keep killing those sacred cows.
And Generation Aleph.
The first.
The first got born during the frickin' pandemic.
They're just kids right now.
But, jeez, the kids I've met, the young kids, profound spiritual insights, profound psychic ability.
Maybe they're the indigo children the boomers thought they'd have.