By some objective standards, I am still young, and much of the media has commented on the global phenomenon of young angry men. Even the Netflix show Adolescence took real-life stories of foreigners stabbing children to berate young men for trying to escape feminism.
Stephen Wolfe commented on this saying:
I’ve met a lot of people over the last three years, and I can’t say that “angry” is the correct descriptor. I’d say that they’re experiencing head-on the consequences of bad policies of prior generations, and they’re searching for paths to live in dignity.
And “anger” is even justified, as they face declining social trust, terrible dating environment, every corrupting influence, gaslighting from teachers and elders, while the generations that handed them this world ridicule them for not buying into the social dogma.
But I haven’t seen anger. Perhaps it’s out there. But what I see is frustration. And I even see hope that some idea or movement can reverse things for them, to restore the world of their grandparents’ youth, which they destroyed and gave a bad inheritance.
Stephen Wolfe, unlike the people who hate on Anonymous social media accounts, has met people in his audience. And his observations are similar to mine. When I went to the Right Response Conference, I did not meet angry people. Quite the opposite. They were jolly. I agree with Wolfe’s observations about the frustration they face, but the mood of the environment is far more optimistic. This is the time for building, and that is what the conversation is about.
