Overall optimistic then, that's good. I am a millennial man myself and experienced first hand the effects of the modern university environment. I saw the post modernist/Marxist/feminist ideology take hold pretty strongly when I was in my senior years, when all the old professors were retiring and being replaced with young, inexperienced, predominantly female ideologues.
Millennials took it on the chin with the cultural degeneracy over the last twenty years, hell I went down that path myself when I was a young university student, the foolish beliefs about gender, sexuality, and "intersectionality". The professors know that they can undermine your beliefs because few 18 year olds have thought long and hard about where they stand and why, they have no perspective. So first they undermine your beliefs, they call it "deconstruction" but it is really just another word for destruction. Then they rebuild your world view with their political and social "theories" or ideologies, and you don't even know it is happening, but your beliefs have changed radically.
It didn't take long for me to come out of it toward the end of my education. Their ideas didn't hold water, I saw reality with my eyes and it did not correspond to their theories. It helped that I came from a rural area and spent lots of time in the woods, hunting, fishing, etc, and I noticed that most of the liberal arts crowd were mentally ill, damaged young people and didn't know where else to go, and so they wound up in a sociology program.
I became an undercover rightwinger, because I wore the skinny jeans (I love 70s rock music) and the denim jacket, but when a political conversation came up I'd be ostracized from the lefty cliques. I learned the hard way who my friends were. I haven't had much experience with the Gen Z crowd, but I would say that rural vs. urban is pretty good indicator of based vs woke, at least among young men.
I know I miss the riskiness. It sounds silly but listening to stories of old school partying it was just so much more care-free. You could have a good time without the government constantly reminding you of your danger to society.
Overall optimistic then, that's good. I am a millennial man myself and experienced first hand the effects of the modern university environment. I saw the post modernist/Marxist/feminist ideology take hold pretty strongly when I was in my senior years, when all the old professors were retiring and being replaced with young, inexperienced, predominantly female ideologues.
Millennials took it on the chin with the cultural degeneracy over the last twenty years, hell I went down that path myself when I was a young university student, the foolish beliefs about gender, sexuality, and "intersectionality". The professors know that they can undermine your beliefs because few 18 year olds have thought long and hard about where they stand and why, they have no perspective. So first they undermine your beliefs, they call it "deconstruction" but it is really just another word for destruction. Then they rebuild your world view with their political and social "theories" or ideologies, and you don't even know it is happening, but your beliefs have changed radically.
It didn't take long for me to come out of it toward the end of my education. Their ideas didn't hold water, I saw reality with my eyes and it did not correspond to their theories. It helped that I came from a rural area and spent lots of time in the woods, hunting, fishing, etc, and I noticed that most of the liberal arts crowd were mentally ill, damaged young people and didn't know where else to go, and so they wound up in a sociology program.
I became an undercover rightwinger, because I wore the skinny jeans (I love 70s rock music) and the denim jacket, but when a political conversation came up I'd be ostracized from the lefty cliques. I learned the hard way who my friends were. I haven't had much experience with the Gen Z crowd, but I would say that rural vs. urban is pretty good indicator of based vs woke, at least among young men.
I know I miss the riskiness. It sounds silly but listening to stories of old school partying it was just so much more care-free. You could have a good time without the government constantly reminding you of your danger to society.