The Current American MIllenial Culture 1

It's hard to say what culture is. Is culture basically the same as secularism, an open field in which all cultures are free to express themselves as long as something from one culture does not hurt something else from another culture? The concerns of the safety of the modern, secular nation state does form culture in one sense, but more and more, desire and the modes of desiring play a dominant role in culture.

To open, in one sense, millenials are trying to do something good. They are trying to form interconnectedness, social networks... they are less apt to use big words to impress others... they are more apt to experiment with interracial dating... they are more communal.

The culture though is almost too interesting. The word "fuck" has become a filler word, an adjective, a verb, a noun, and everything else. Trendy millenials seem constantly amused by one thought or another whether it is intercultural conumdrums or anything that seems kind of interesting to ponder for 20 seconds. Then they go on with their life.

Millenials have friends with benefits. I think this was a term that was popularized by Alanis Morissette in one of her songs. Friends with benefits seems to me an oxymoron. I like my friends because I don't have sex with them. For millenials, a friendship can turn romantic and then back to friendship once again like a prince turning into a frog then back to prince again. Again, the idea of pushing boundaries seems to be very common with millenials. Secularism and Postmodernism have exposed arbitrary categories as arbitrary categories.

Millenials, in a deeper sense, want to discover something wonderful and pleasurable in the world. In another sense, millenials are deeply sad inside. 

I talked to one millenial at a bar over a beer. He talked to me about one-night stands. They call it something else nowadays. I just can't remember what. He talked about it excitedly as he nostalgically recalled some of his experiences. Meanwhile, his girlfriend or girl who's a friend tells me about a group of girls at her school whose whole mission was to get impregnated by football players. She seemed to be saying that they did. I don't understand why girls want to get pregnant by football players. Most football players do not do that well from what I understand.

Her boyfriend talks about one-night stands as if it were some risky adventure. I ask him about diseases, and he doesn't really seem to care. Contraceptives solve the problem. Millenials don't want deep, fulfilling relationships. The divorce of many of their parents and the alienation between the sexes has affected their sense of relationships. They want the quick thrill. They want to chase the moment's horniness to its logical end. They are not interested in ideology. They want the experience and feeling of being alive.