Silver Linings in the Dystopian Wasteland

Keep your spirts up pilgrim, and your sixgun loaded

Quite a few Gen Z of my acquaintance tell me that their prospects are bleak.

They don’t do this like the bleating millennials who assume the world owes them the special participation trophy they were raised to believe they are always entitled to. No, the Gen Z tell me this by their stoic and quiet lack of expectation of anything good. A girl abandoned by an ephemeral “man” simply slumps dry-eyed at her dead end job as a cashier. A young man goes to his cubicle farm without expectations of anyone or anything relieving him of his soul-crushing lack of future prospects. And yet…

They secretly harbour a dream… a fantasy from their perspective really.

Of finding The One. A woman that loves him for real. A man that she can rely on and trust for life. A shared purpose in a world devoid of meaning and without a compelling future, or even, a future of any kind.

It is an emotional post-apocalyptic wasteland, this much is true. It may as well be the setting of fallout, season X - perennially and gradually always worse.

And yet… my young friends… without pretending anything is other than what it is, let me point out something you may have missed due to the alarmist propaganda that has you constantly focused on the nuclear winter clouds, irradiated water and mutated radioactive rabid rats.

Yes you are surrounded by vaxxed morons that now have AIDS and nanobots in their bloodstream.

Yes you are poor and can’t save and if you decided to study for something actually useful like engineering you probably have a crushing student debt.

Yes meeting people in real life is harder now, and even if you approach someone for a friendly and casual exchange of pleasantries you might be arrested for sexual harassment or at least seem as “creepy” for not contacting then through tinder first.

Sure, these are all realities.

But think of the time and effort this situation has saved you from:

• Is he/she vaxxed? Cross them off the list

• Are they unable to have a 30 second conversation face to face? Cross them off the list

• Do they believe Israel is their most important ally? Cross them off the list and see if you can have them deported to Israel.

• Do they think the genocide in Gaza is just a kind of war? Cross them off the list.

• Do they believe abortion is a right instead of murder? Cross them off the list.

• So they believe trans “women” are women? Or that feminism is a good thing? Cross them off the list.

Are you starting to get the idea?

Yes life is hard and then you die. But it was always so.

Yes most people are complete idiots. But it was always so, the only difference is now you can actually see them for the idiots they are.

It’s not that your dating pool has shrunk. It's just that all the red flags are out now visible; which makes it so much easier to avoid the bad choices.

There are two massive advantages to this situation that past generations did not have.

The obvious one is that as I said, almost all the red flags are exposed. Which makes choosing the right one easier. You are probably going to avoid the gold-digging fake that would have divorce-raped you a few years down the line, or the seemingly fun and bubbly hottie that would nevertheless murder your child in order not to get “tied down” before she’s ready to have a family.

Bit there is a further benefit that is not so obvious, and that is: if you’re really interested in the kind of lifelong commitment that is found only in dogmatic Catholicism for example, such as the idea that marriage is for life, regardless of whether you picked the right one that is really perfect for you or not. And that the main purpose of marriage is to make and raise children as a couple that stays together in harmony until death. And that your body no longer belongs to you, but is now the property of your spouse. Say, you want a marriage like that, with those principles as foundation, well, guess what, it’s never been easier to:

A) avoid all the ones that do NOT for the bill

B) see all the ones that do

C) test for veracity any that seem suitable long before you marry them.

Is it a moral wasteland? You bet.

Is it easier than ever to see who is an irradiated, mutated, toxic, broken, cannibal? You bet.

Are there enough heroines with a pure heart left?

1. There never have been enough of them

2. Most are made not born

3. You ain’t perfect either

It’s not so much that it’s slim pickings, it’s just that all the veils are mostly fallen, and you can now see the real position of most people. So… you just might be the luckiest generation ever.

If you avoid the crazies, pick the right one, and start making as many children as you can, our great grand-children may well inhabit a world where Clown World gets studied as the real dark ages.

And your descendants might also number in the thousands.

Besides… what kind of film did you want your life to be? A Rom-Com of fake platitudes? Nah.

It might be the zombie apocalypse, but you bet you can make it a lot cooler than just a zombie movie… a story of true love in a zombie apocalypse… now that is a film worth watching!