[music] [music] [music] So, I'm making a video cuz my world has been somewhat rocked. Uh, I took to X recently and in a few different posts, I was asking Generation Z, "Hey, how do you see the world? " and help me put myself in your shoes.
I want to really be able to get in the mind of a young ginzy, particularly a male in the conservativeish or libertarian space. And what I have found has been really a bummer. Uh I'll say this, it would super suck to be a young man right now.
Uh I'm saying that as I'm I'm the oldest of the millennial generation. Above my generation is generation X and above them is the baby boomers. I could relate to being a Gen Xer.
I could even relate to the boomers and to the builders at some point, but I really can't relate much to the zoomers until I've really started trying here and what I've come up with. Uh it's made me very angry. Uh and it's kind of made me despair a bit.
And I I I don't want I think there is actually hope. there is a way out for a lot of young men. But I guess in this video, what I'm trying to do is wrestle with my um what my mind is seeing and what my heart is feeling regarding a Gen Z guy.
I think the average young man who is a Gen Z, that's ages like 13 years old to 28 years old, what they're feeling is a very very deep-seated uh anger and despair against all of our institutions of power, all the rampant corruption, all the gross overspending which has bankrupted the American dollar. Not bankrupted, I'm speaking in angry hyperbole here. uh has really devastated the economic power uh through inflation and through taxes such that I mean runaway student loans and uh inaccessibility for housing.
It's not that all the Gen Z guys need to just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, try harder, suck it up, buttercup. Yeah, there are some of those who are just lazy and they're wasting their entire lives online or video games or something. There's others that out are out there who have two jobs and they're saying, "Hey, whereas this would have made ends meet for your generation, John, and uh before your generation, it the economics don't work for me anymore and it feels like a trap and there's no way out.
" Uh and um looking at the economics, you're absolutely right. You're right. Um, and so I get that.
Uh, and so this resonated that super sucks. It doesn't change the the way out of like, all right, through innovation, discipline, hard work, all those addages, all those principles still hold true. But I guess I just wanted to pause a moment and see the young man where they're at in that it economically it is harder now than it was for me when I I was the same age.
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So, um that that caused upset. Also, rampant distrust in legacy media. Um uh seeing corruption in both sides of the political game makes it look like the whole house is rigged and prior generations holding all the power will hold on to all wealth and all power clutching it in their arthritic fingers until they finally go to the grave.
Uh bankrupting your future and there's nothing that you can do about it. That's the feeling. And uh you know ultimately they can't live forever.
They are actually dying out and wealth and power is transferring to generation X and the millennial generation. That's me. And you zoomers are right behind us and you're getting in the game too, but you're really barred entry.
What I hope will happen is that Gen Z and the millennials, that's us like big older brothers will be able to partner together. and even Gen X as well of like we got Gen X now in the White House. JD Vance is vice president of the univer of the United States of America.
That's a Gen Xer. And so um that that's the way out. But I think it starts with a little bit of understanding and I wanted to go first.
I wanted to apologize. It's easy to stand at a distance, hear some of the complaints and not really feel it and to uh judge it. And I think Gen Z judges all us too in the comments.
Whenever you're unders misunderstood or you hear anyone older than you say anything you don't like, you're like, "Okay, boomer. " And I didn't know what that was. I'm like, "You missed me by two generations.
" Two generations. And and really, no, it's like boomer ideology means like you don't understand us and you're not even trying to. Well, I have been trying to understand and uh the economic thing is a real thing.
That might be that is very upsetting. But the other thing that I really see that is extremely upsetting is the dating situation. I found a really, really great girl and I married her.
And my experience of 19 years of marriage lets me know that marriage is like the best thing ever. I'd trade everything I have for this girl who is amazing. And I can say that and and stand forth and be like, "Marriage is amazing.
" And then meanwhile, you've been responding for a very long time, but I've really just started to put my uh put myself in your shoes when you're saying, "Yeah, those girls aren't there. " I'm like, "Yeah, right. They're there.
" Well, yeah, maybe they are, but they're so ridiculously few now. There's this hypergamy gap. That's what I've discovered.
And so, you Zoomers who are watching in, uh, you already know this. And everyone else that's an older generation, this is a new idea. But the whole idea is is through online dating which comprises almost uh how everyone is meeting today and in my day we were meeting uh out in real public life and y'all are meeting primarily online and on these dating apps and and whatnot and all these different f places.
A gal that's like a a five or a six is going after the nines and tens and they're hooking up and shacking up. And so the top like 2% 10% of guys, they're stacking bodies all over the place and the girls are running after them. But if you're a dude that's just like a four or a six, you are completely invisible to girls until you have some kind of great wealth or something to offer that would allow you to be seen.
You feel invisible, discarded. And there's this category, incel, involuntary celibate. that is basically you're unseen.
Uh and uh you're robbed of that affection. And meanwhile, even if you can get a gal, they've stacked a whole bunch of bodies. Uh they're basically online prostitutes because holy smokes, it seems like that very upsetting for me.
Uh very upsetting for me. Uh you're not seeing a lot of highquality gals. They have not been taught how to respect husbands.
Men have been taught how to love wives, how to pour out your life for them, but a gal has not really been taught how to respect a man and to look for him to leadership. And feminism has really torpedoed the young female mind. And what has happened is this huge generational rift that has never happened any other time as far as I can tell.
The millennials, uh, the males and females were kind of similar within our generation. Same with the boomers and same with the builders and the silent generation and all that. Within their own generational ecosystem, men and women were very similar in their ideology.
That's not true with Gen Z. The men are uh the the young men are conservative and more religious and the girls are extremely woke and promiscuous. And so there is a gener massive generational gap within the males and females.
Now, you zoomers are shaking your heads are like, "You're just figuring this out. " Yeah. As a matter of fact, yes.
As a matter of fact, yes. This is this is newer stuff. In the last six months, I've been noticing and I've been caring enough to lean in and process it.
And I'm just verbalizing all that so that the rest of my generation and those who are tuning in can at least appreciate the problem. Because if we don't understand where Gen Z is coming from, how in the world are we supposed to be good older brothers to you? If we do have good age-old principles and lots of experience to be able to glean from you, but you can't hear us over our boomer talk, how in the world are we supposed to help you?
How are we supposed to team with you for a better future for America? There's a gap. And so, since you're not coming to us, I I wanted to be able to come uh to Gen Z and at least try to have some modeicum of understanding.
What is the breakdown? What are you going through? help me see the world as you see.
And it's very, very distressing. It would really super suck to be a young man looking for a wife now. Um, they are out there.
I think they are they're far harder to find than they were in my generation. And so, not making excuses, not Yeah. Not excusing anything, but expl and an explanation is helpful.
That is true. I see that. That is very upsetting.
And I understand the despair that could come from that. Now, I wanted to build a little bit of common ground. I am furious as well with the corruption uh at all levels of our institution of power and particularly in politics.
Uh millennials, conservative millennials, though we're talking past each other a lot and I haven't really seen you until more recently. I wanted to team with you as well and say, "Hey, you don't like the corruption stuff? " Me neither.
Me neither. career politicians that have been in uh ruling for 50 plus years promising us things would get better and they haven't and they've spent our country uh into oblivion. Uh wild government sp uh spending that's torpedoed our wealth via inflation and taxes.
I hate it. Big corporations, there's like three major corporations that control most of the wealth in the United States and they've been gobbling up housing for years. and once gobbling up those houses, they're boosting rents.
And so now you're so busy pouring into just uh housing costs and the basic costs of living, you can't bank enough money to actually buy a house. Whereas in my day or in my father's day or grandfather's day, single income normalist job, if you're smart and you budget, you can support yourself and family. That is not true.
You must be dual income. And even if you're dual income making good decisions, you might not be able to pull it off because wages have not risen commiserate with housing costs. I see that too.
Um uh I do not want foreign governments exerting any overt or covert control over my country, whether that's Israel or whether that's any other country. I don't want it. I want it to stop.
I want America to be able to look after American interests and we revive the American dream, the land of opportunity for all. That's what I would like. So, no uh foreign coercion at any level of our government or any of our institutions of power.
I also don't want any foreign wars. I have a son now that wants to join the military one day. Uh and when he comes of age and it is happening fast, I don't want him participating in any unnecessary and stupid wars.
That's what I would like. I don't want to play police state around the globe. I was a veteran of foreign wars.
I was a GWAT veteran uh with the 75th Ranger Regiment. I don't want unnecessary foreign wars. I want closed borders.
I don't want policing of any kind of speech. So, I want complete freedom of speech without any type of censorship or putting thumb on the scales by big tech. Uh I want our kids protected.
you I think you will find within millennials though we are older and you could very quickly cast us off as okay boomer of like bro we could be allies we could be allies we have more in common than you think but here's the ask I suppose I have um I think given your vitrial your upset it'd be easy to look at any any older brother like me see a point of disagreement or be Like John thinks this John's a dispensationalist. And by the way, I'm not. I'm not a dispensationalist.
I don't understand why you'd spit on me if I was. What if I what if I was and I'm not. But what if I was and I was just mistaken?
You know, of like you you have to have some modeicum of grace as soon as if you don't like everyone towing the party line out there. But then Gen Z has their own list of of the thou shalts and thou shalt not. And as soon as somebody that's older than them trespasses on one of those, you're dead to them and you're gone, you know.
And so of like I think you need to partner with the millennial generation as well to build a better future. And so I think there needs to be a little bit of an olive branch between generations because if we stay divided, you find some issue that you don't like with somebody that's a little bit older. You find some issue you don't like and you just write them off and nope, cancelled, they're dead because they didn't line up on this issue that's important to you.
What happens is we are divided. And if we are divided, we're easy to conquer. And so the left wins.
And so that's how allies work. You never perfectly align with anyone about everything. You just look at the most important stuff.
And I would submit conservative millennials, conservative exers have a lot in common with genzers. Uh but one thing that we have not done a good job, I have not done a good job and I've already apologized for this. I have not seen you where you're really at.
That sucks. Um and I am still grasping for that. I would appreciate knowing more.
I'd like you to jump in the comments. I want to know your experience. I will be reading the comments.
I will be responding to many of the comments. What is your experience? Um, in this video, I I I wasn't seeking out to give a bunch of solutions or a magic bullet of like, hey, you've struggled with all this.
Here you go. It's really just me processing where you're at uh and extending a bit of an olive branch uh to you, right? And so that is all.
That is it. Gen Z, I see you. You're angry.
I get it. Uh uh regardless of how the chess board is set, we still have to make good moves. Uh we're still accountable for our lives.
We still have to practice the age-old wisdom, discipline, ingenuity, and hard work. Uh but uh I I I think it is important to acknowledge you have unique difficulties in your generation that frankly the past generations have not seen in that way. And so [sighs] I see that that is all.
I'm John Levelville, Warrior Post Society. See you next time.
