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This is aside the main point, but I think this piece also spotlights what defines a Millennial in general... medium.com/@girlziplocked/if-you-were-a-leftist-teenager-during-the-iraq-war-you-were-gaslit-24-7-by-everyone-1179a34589b9#.dnigqf9r6
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...You're a Millennial if you were old enough to have political opinions after 9/11, but not adult enough to be fully confident in them.
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Chronotope So: if you don't remember where you were during 9/11 or you were deep into your career at the time, you prob aren't a Millennial
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Which hits on two things that I think this piece misses: 1. you didn't have to be a leftist teenager to feel that way, the right did too.
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Much of the young right's distrust of establishment media and politicians also prob came from the same feeling of being lied to post-9/11
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The left-middle and centrists really bullshitted us all, and every young person on all levels of the political spectrum felt it.
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It's worth noting that much of the modern young right stands in opposition to their own party establishment, this is partly why.
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2nd thing is that this was hugely amplified not just if you were a women but also any flavor of non-white-and-Christian.
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As a Jew I always found it notable how Israel politics fractured the young members of the community, more so as they got older.
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Though the 2 sides divide on what they think the reality is, the one thing everyone young was sure of was that they were being lied to.
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I really hadn't thought a lot about how this feeling, often unverbalized, drives so many people in my age group. But it is there.
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It arguably also drives some of startup culture, an unwillingness to go along with the old structures.
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Revelatory to think about things through this lens. I guess other generations also went through periods of establishment distrust?
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The wave in post-9/11 feels different though.