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Is This the End of Marriage, Capitalism, and God? Finally?

686250_lowBy Selwyn Duke

“This is the end of marriage, capitalism and God. Finally!” triumphantly reads a recent Salon title. It’s not exactly an original sentiment. The sickly but self-deifying Friedrich Nietzsche announced in 1882 already that “God is dead”; of course, now, Nietzsche is dead (perhaps eternally?). God? Not so much.

The Salon author is one Jeff DeGraff, a professor and “Dean of Innovation” at the University of Michigan. His thesis is that the “millennials,” those born 1982 through 2004 (approximately), are rejecting organized religion, belief in God, marriage, and capitalism and thus may lead us into some brave new world. He writes in his subtitle, “My fellow boomers might mock millennials, but what if the new generation has the big questions absolutely right?”

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One response to “Is This the End of Marriage, Capitalism, and God? Finally?”

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    Ike

    For uncounted generations in the West, people who are supposedly learned and intelligent have been announcing that God is dead, that some specific social institution they dislike is gone and that the existing economic structure of practices and institutions is kaput. Guess what? They were wrong. So is Professor DeGraff, just the most recent in a long line of those screaming about how the world didn’t turn out the way they wanted it to be. Most of the things for which boomers mock millennials are practical things, like not studying a major in college that offers a chance for a decent job, not being honest enough to find and marry a good woman (for men), not being sane enough to find and marry a good man (for women), for not having matured beyond the stage where they want their ice cream and want it now … real things, not trivia like how they dress or act or drink/smoke dope too much, etc. Substantive things that are fundamental to living a fully adult and human life. They prefer to remain child-like and dependent upon others for their existence and indeed even for their pleasures. By which I mean to say, if the millennials as a group “…has the big questions absolutely right…” then it is entirely possible that the next communist-ruled nation to emerge will be the long dreamed-of Utopia of peace and kindness. I, for one, am not holding my breath on any of those being the case.

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