Few events are more defining for millennials – the biggest, richest, most educated generation in history – than that fateful day on September 11, 2001, just as a new millennium had brought widespread optimism. A veil of darkness descended on earth with a generation feeling cheated of their peace – a unique brief period in living memory between the fall of the berlin wall and 9/11 when there was no worldwide hot or cold war. A darkness of which we are periodically reminded as people get senselessly killed in our streets, in our clubs, in our cafes, in our travels. The shock and disbelief gave way to anger shortly after 2003, with the millennials now adults and making their way to university. Just as tension was bubbling and it seemed they might take to the streets, Tony Blair, probably the most hated man in Britain, resigned in 2007, just two years into his third term. Reporters were saying officials are advised to not use the term terrorism. Obama rose to offer change and hope. Instead, we were offered the biggest crash and worst economy in 100 years, just as we were entering the workforce. Students occupied spaces or rioted in an animalistic expression of rage in London 2011. Arabia burned with hope turned to war. Cometh the Hour Cometh the Man Žižek rose, yet he offered tried and failed communism, but cometh the hour cometh the man, Nakamoto, who offered something new that seemed promising. People, especially young people, flocked, with price reaching dollar parity, then $100, then equal value to gold. Bitcoin introduced a generation to libertarianism or classic liberalism, the opposite of Žižek, and a political philosophy most suited to a time when the state seemed to exert more and more control. That philosophy seems to have […]
