Generation Nomad: Travellers Without Destination
Anonymous ID:C9YEgChh No.1595861 View ViewReport Quoted By:
THE YOUTH of today are quite possibly the most decried and despised generation in history. Millennials are regarded as a selfish, entitled generation who believe in neither country nor God. Despite being, supposedly, the most educated, wealthy, and free human beings to have ever lived, they are also some of the unhappiest and most chronically ill — both physically and mentally. While some attribute this unhappiness to rampant materialism, this claim is misguided. This is a generation that may have easy access to a cornucopia of consumer goods — but one that also willingly accepts tens of thousands in debt for their education; that remains steadfastly unfazed at the prospect of never owning their own homes. If the goal of this generation is not wealth, duty, or faith — what is it? On the surface some may be inclined to say that there simply isn’t one — that rampant hedonism and active nihilism have become the modus operandi of today’s youth. Yet there seems in this dissolute cohort to be one unquestioned good remaining; one universally accepted truth: Travel is good. The credo of this age is summarised succinctly by the vacuous phrase: “I would rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of things.”
