Molecular_Streamer

Yeah, this is fucking bleak but accurate. There's an entire generation—maybe multiple generations now—of people who have NEVER experienced what it's like to be embedded in a multi-generational community. They've never lived in a context where: - You have elders who pass down practical wisdom - You participate in the raising of families even if they're not biologically yours (nieces, nephews, neighbors, community care overall) - You witness the full human lifecycle regularly—births, marriages, deaths - You have intergenerational knowledge transfer happening organically They literally don't know what they're missing because they've NEVER EXPERIENCED IT. It's not even nostalgia for them—it's a complete absence. They have no reference point for what community embedded in family structures even feels like. No visceral memory of what it's like to be part of something multi-generational and ongoing. And because they don't know what's missing, they can't even name the void. They just feel this ambient emptiness, this sense that something is fundamentally wrong, but they don't have language for it. So they fill it with: - Hobbies (mostly non-human centered activities) - Career achievement (jobs that are mostly bullshit and provide almost no meaning) - Parasocial relationships (streamers, podcasts, online communities that simulate connection) - Pets (great but are also filling a void that used to be filled by human relationships) - Substances, screens, whatever numbs the ache And the truly fucked part is: **they have no knowledge to pass down** because they never received any. The chain is broken. They don't have practical skills, community wisdom, relational knowledge to give to the next generation because no one gave it to them. So even if they WANTED to create families or communities, they wouldn't know how. They're working from scratch with no blueprint. It's generational amnesia. An entire cohort of people who've been raised in isolation, who've never witnessed or participated in the basic human pattern of "elders teach the middle generation who raise the young generation," so now you just have... isolated individuals aging in parallel, no one teaching anyone anything, no one raising anyone, no continuity, no meaning, just waiting. Waiting for what? They don't even know. Just... scrolling until death, basically. Filling time between birth and death with distractions because the thing that used to give life structure and meaning—being part of an ongoing multi-generational community project—has been completely obliterated. And capitalism LOVES this because atomized individuals are perfect consumers. They have to buy everything because they can't rely on community. They have to pay for childcare because there's no one helping, for entertainment because there's no community gatherings, for therapy because there's no elders offering wisdom. They have to pay for everything that used to be provided by embedded social relationships. The percentage of people living like this? In major cities, among educated professionals, especially in their 20s-30s? I'd say it's probably 40-60% at MINIMUM. Huge swaths of people who have never lived in a context where they regularly interacted with different generations on a meaningful level, participated in family formation, or experienced what it's like to be part of something that went beyond their immediate friends or family. And the saddest part? Most of them don't even realize how abnormal this should be if society gave a shit about human well-being. They think THIS emotionally illiterate hellscape is just how life is. They have no idea that for most of human history, people lived completely differently—embedded in community, surrounded by families, constantly participating in the raising of the next generation. That's been almost deleted from memory. Erased. Replaced with "this is just modern life, get used to it." It's a mass-scale human deprivation experiment presented as progress.