For years we have heard and read or written about the disappearance of boys and the fact that normal young men (if they exist at all) are being pushed into warehouses somewhere. The only ones left are metrosexual men and girlboys. We all kind of knew that it couldn’t be the whole story. Especially me, who has a few young Aryan rebels among my readers. But still…
There is clearly a revolution, and it’s a revolution of young men. Young rebels were one of the constituencies Donald Trump leaned on in the swing states. A team of young men are occupying government offices. They are ill-mannered, cynical and make fun of everything sacred, from sexual minorities to climate change. They make comments on social media that make well-behaved liberal women swoon. In Germany and elsewhere in Europe, young men support anti-system parties.
This manifests itself in various social strata, from young workers to top analysts.
They are not all members of that generation, but there are enough of them to make a difference.
It is to be expected that young women will soon emerge as well. I don’t mean the buttoned-up activists or the 1960s family types, but the single wildcats who know how to enjoy life.
Maybe those young ones will have great times ahead after all, and maybe the West has more capacity for revitalization than it seemed. Of course, they’ll have to smash that perverse system of constant surveillance, where normal sparks between a man and a woman are considered a crime and where any lovemaking risks rape charges and ruined lives. But they’ll deal with it.