Why Society Has Failed GenZ

in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit a big topic today that you see a lot of people making content on is why gen Z can't seem to grow up why are they kind of stuck in this infantile mentality or underdeveloped maybe is a more accurate term why aren't they able to handle conflict in the workplace why are they having difficulties in life why are they not embracing relationships and all of these Dynamics you see kind of playing themselves out now I have the unique experience of interacting with

a lot of uh genz that are in their you know early to almost late 20s but what I'm observing I don't think really pertains only to them I think it has broader uh cultural implications of how people in our society are being developed and what they're building their life and basing it on and so one of the things that I would say is probably the kind of uh Pinnacle of all all the problems that is that are happening right now that are kind of the trickle down effect that's happening in people's psyches relationships workplace and

everything else is just the idea of fantasy you know I grew up in the 80s and in the 80s we had very fanal you know fanciful you know movies and entertainments and this kind of pervasive notion that you were going to realize one day that you had some super trait or some superow that you were going to change the world or move things and what's Wild is that kind of immersive mentality has become even more pronounced now with this younger generation because of the fact that their entertainment saturation has completely shaped how they see the

world and so you see it like how they see intimacy well what's that based on it's based on a bunch of horrific content that they uh began consuming when they were young on the internet which is not even intimacy at all it's not even how two people should interact or treat each other it has nothing to do with the nobility of a person it has nothing to do with love and caring and kindness and sacrificial or any of that it's it's based and beastial it's it it puts the person as kind of an aggressor and

almost aggressor victim relationship nothing to do with equality and love what else do we we see the culture of anime that's like super pervasive in the Gen Z where they're taking these um kind of plot lines in gen Z that they're recycling over and over again you know like the person is bullied then they go on a montage then they come back and they're more powerful and they're able to defeat their enemies or whatever else and they kind of create this narrative where like the person in life is perpetually the victim until they go undergo

some kind of transformation and you know experience kind of rebirth and success and all these other things and then you know what about education and hard work education today is taught in such a manner that the student is really seen as being the focal point of The Learning Experience instead of the information right and so colleges are all about creating an environment where people can express themselves and and and find themselves and do all these other things that have nothing to do with actually learning the history of the world or culture or the things that

have shaped it or how you can positively impact and change culture in a meaningful way everything is Subs uh subversive and and has a Marxist underpinning and so what you find is uh especially with the Gen Z they're very much weighed down in this mental state where there's like a Detachment from reality you know they're not used to experiencing long form conversation without a cell phone you know where there's no cell phone present where you go to a dinner and you have you know 8 to 10 friends and nobody is on their phones and everyone

is experienced and engaged people are actually reading up on the topics that they're talking about and there's deep interpersonal connection that's happening now people are communicating um really trivial and kind of and nign conversations through text messages and it's and it's emotional and kind of passion-filled and uh aggressive but it's not face to face it's not normal you know and people are not looking into the face of the other person they're not experiencing real Intimacy in fact I read an article a couple years ago that said uh young men were engaging women less than ever

before because they found that women were just not like good internet content a real woman is a human being with emotions and thoughts and personality and wonderful attributes and and you know shortcomings and everything else but it's a real person but we become so pervasive in kind of this um uh uh uh consumeristic culture where we're used to consuming people and so when I talk to young people about who they should marry and how they should make the decision for marriage many times they're just completely detached from this idea that they're going to marry an

imperfect person that they're going to have to shape their life around accommodating and working with that person just like they're the other person's going to have to accommodate them they're constantly looking for the perfect or the better or am I settling and these kind of absurd ideas of human dynamics that are divorced from reality and in the face of all this in the face of all this when you turn to culture you realize culture doesn't have a solution for this they don't offer you anything so it's like if you get burned out and you get

shaped by this and let's say you know you a young woman goes to college she gets a degree she pursues her career now she's in her mid 20s and she's not married uh she's had a series of very difficult relationships that ended poorly she has a distrust of men she practically in all real ways has been kind of divorced several times over and she feels a longing and a desire for family and she thinks that that desire is some somehow inferior to the career she doesn't know what to do with it because it's deep and

maternal and existential uh and she doesn't know where to find a man because everybody on Twitter just wants to hook up culture has no answer there is nothing that culture can do that can suddenly say hey this is where you find a husband these are where you find normative relationship roles within marriage this is how to have a healthy marriage because for most of us gen zers I'm Gen X but for most of us in the last you know 30 plus years we've just watched divorce as the norm in solving relationship dysfunction we don't know

how to press through and engage what's difficult and hard and so like if someone were to ask me where do you you know Sol solve and erase all this there's only one place it's the Orthodox Church you have to plug into a completely different mindset a completely different Society a different way of life one that is difficult aesthetical fasting prayer long services but one that is real in tangible you stand in church you're in the presence of God you soak in the ins sense the smells you look at the icons the icons look back at

you they penetrate you you develop your relationship with your spiritual father somebody who knows you intimately somebody you can open your soul up to somebody who can speak into your life you develop normative relationships with the people in your Parish where you realize you have a community and you and in a community that never existed before in your life because culture doesn't offer community everything is divorced and through the internet and not real and not face Toof face and not interpersonal and all of this is an immersion in a different society and so it is

when I see people whether they're genz through Gen X and everything in between and they're struggling and they're trying to figure out where they belong in the world because the world is so detached from reality it's so based on the Internet it's so it's so extrapolated from Human Experience I'm always like you've got to go to the Orthodox Church it is a society within Society it is a home and I will say it is a family because it's people who are knit together with a common Bond and purpose and a common fatherhood and a common

mother in all of these ways it creates this Bond of family that we know where we're going we know what we're doing we have norms and expectations we have culture uh we have uh standards and all of these things it begins to basically take a person back from the brink of nihilism nothingness the void of the internet which is soul destroying and brings them into reality and Into the Light of Christ I encourage everyone who is struggling with the disfigurement of society that is detached from real human intimacy from personhood from interpersonal relationships from Community

from love from all these things find your local Orthodox church and that is where you will find your true family God bless you