“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” — Winston Churchill.

In my previous article Why are Millennials Depressed All The Time?, I mentioned your parents lived their productive years in evolutionary times but you Millennials live in revolutionary times. I explained how the house of cards built by the evil among Boomers will crumble in your lifetime, and you will have to rebuild from the ashes. To equip yourselves for that task, you need to consult lessons learned from analogous periods in history. The French Revolution (1789 -1799) makes for a great analogue.

Despite success…

In response to my previous article Why are Millennials Depressed All The Time?, a couple of Millennials expressed confusion about career path. They haven’t had much luck finding the right jobs.

I am neither a job counselor nor a Futurist. But I think Millennials should look for opportunities in five already established Mega-Trends:

(1) The “DeFi” Movement is rapidly gaining traction.

More than anything else, the ever-widening 1%-99% wealth disparity is the direct result of “financialization”— the Financial Elite’s multi-decade effort since the 80s to have every transaction requiring monetary exchange be controlled by the financial “industry”. A plethora of exotic credit “products” have been created by various…

(And What They Can Do About It)

It is common knowledge that Millennials are constantly stressed and much more prone to depression than their parents’ generation. In one survey, half of millennials (between 24 and 39 in age) claimed they’d left their jobs for mental health reasons (i.e. from burnout). Compared with just 20 per cent among the general population, that number is disconcertingly high.

Pundits generally attribute this phenomenon to the following circumstances:

• Lack of financial prospect: Owing a lot (of student debt), owning nothing with diminishing chances of ever owning anything (thanks to asset prices rapidly escalating out-of-reach…

By now, Facebook is “My father’s social medium” to a Millennial. When it was first launched 17 years ago, I disliked the concept instantly. I find the idea of announcing to the world every time you sneeze ridiculously self-pampering. I think sharing between family members by broadcast rather than personal contact is cold and detached. And I am horrified by the idea of volunteering not only your own information but that of your friends and family to be mined and exploited by Facebook. …

By sheer size , the Millennial generation will overwhelm the generation before it, — Gen X, — in replacing the Boomers as builders of the world. The oldest Millennials are now 40 years old and the bulk of Millennials are approaching 30 years old. They are rapidly coming of age to take key offices in government and industry, to do exactly that.

Having seen “greed is good” excesses in their parents (Boomers)’ generation manifesting in disasters like Enron, Madoff, and the 2008 global credit crisis, Millennials hold very different values. They are collaborative rather than individualistic. They focus on experiencing…

In another piece I wrote, — The Art of Truth Seeking, — I mentioned “Truth will set you free” is a saying from the Bible, the context being the Jews of that time forgot their long history of bondage. The human story has always been about bondage, — from before Moses’ time to the present. The form of bondage varies over time, but its substance remains the same. …

Belatedly, I just finished Season 1 of True Detective, a dark crime drama against a backdrop of cultism and hypocrisy/cruelty. I can’t help but notice the abundance of surrealism in this first series; and that makes me think.

Surrealism is generally thought of as an artistic style, — one I can never relate to, I might add. But if art is a creative expression of human emotion, then its popularity is a statement of social mood in aggregate. Surrealism was born in the 1920s in Paris on the heel of World War I, out of disgust with the War and…

Written June 20, 2021

In another piece I wrote, — The Art of Truth Seeking, — I touched upon the difference between knowledge and belief, in the context of truth seeking. I aim to expand on that here, viewed from a different angle.

Epistemology teaches us the value of knowledge, as opposed to dogma, lies in its enduring and persistent nature. You may strongly (but wrongly) believe your favorite restaurant stays open until 10PM. The day you show up and find it closed at 10PM is the day you instantly let go of that previously held strong belief. But now…