Real Reason Gen Z is Far-Right
Explaining why Generation Z is so Far-Right
Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today.
Francis Fukuyama
This article is my engagement of Monsieur Z’s video explanation for why our generation is so right wing. While I generally accept his thesis, I feel like he is missing something important.
First, we must acknowledge that it is not so much that Gen Z became Far-Right as Gen-Z Conservative men becoming further radicalized, while Gen-Z liberal women also became further radicalized but to the opposite side.
Now, Monsieur Z’s thesis is that Gen-Z became far-right due to the inability of the regime to meet their needs as they could with boomers, creating echoes of generational resentment which is totally justified, considering how stuck up their ass boomers are.
In other words, Generation Z is the neglected generation and because it is neglected it has become radical.
Monseir Z told me the following in the DMs:
The betrayal stems from this sense that the system boasting itself as the best in the world puts its future (GenZ) last while babying the boomers and showing greater interests in the plight of foreigners (both abroad and in the sense of migrants).
Gen Z and boomers share completely different set of values, as it was demonstrated in the recent debate between Piers Morgan and Nick Fuentes. Boomers grew up on the liberal hippie ideology and cable TV, whereas we grew up on the open landscape of the internet in which there is actual competition of ideas. In which we don’t get our opinions from an authoritarian censor who is in the control of controlling the masses.
This diversity of information, naturally implies heterogeneity, both to the left and to the right, meaning that our the left wing Zoomers are more hardcore than leftists of the previous generations also.
We see this primarily from their support of violence and extremism, and also from the fact that all major political shootings of the last few years have been committed by left-wing zoomers radicalized by internet and trans ideology.
I’m afraid that cannot simply be explained by boomers screwing over America, and so my theory is going to be slightly different and more complicated.
What I’ve learned from immersing myself in politics full-time is that every political action is ultimately a reaction to something else. We rarely see ourselves as truly separate from the rest of the world; instead, we largely define our identity based on how the world defines us. That is unless we reject that external definition, in which case we struggle for the right to define who we are in our most authentic form.
This struggle is the struggle of recognition, a foundational way of dialectical advancement in conflict theory, but more on that later.
If you look at popular right wing podcasts online, you would quickly begin to notice that a good portion of them came about during the Covid-19 lockdowns, crackdowns on free speech or frankly the universal recognition that the left has gone rogue. That produced a media culture which was/is totally dominated by right wing thought.
Similarly, the extreme far-right wing has risen to heightened prominence alongside the renewed salience of Jewish political mobilization in the United States following October 7 to a point that even Tucker Carlson, Steven Crowder and Megyn Kelly have decided to placate and engage with this generational energy.
If you look at what people commonly define as extremism in our society today, be it trans ideology, BLM, White nationalism or antisemitism, they all stem from a perception of social erasure or symbolic domination by one group over another.
Trans ideologues believe they are getting genocided when we refuse to use their preferred pronounce, BLM people believe police is hunting Black people for being Black and that they are living under a White supremacist system, White advocates believe that their concerns are being ignored, as they are getting replaced by non-Whites whereas the so called antisemites are fed up with the Jews dominating discourse and general will of the United States to their advantage and often at the expense of everyone else.
Obviously, I don’t buy into the first two perceptions of reality because I am on the right, but I definitely see why these people would think this way, and the largest contribution to that is the false-consciousness generated by the marriage of media, academia and popular culture.
This "false-consciousness" is what Hegel would describe as the slave seeing the world through the master’s eyes, because both left wing zoomers and boomers are leftists due to conformity to the media, academia and popular culture as it existed in the 2010s.
The social consciousness for the last two phenomena is much more grounded in reality but it gained popularity primarily due to counter culture, internet academia and political personalities like Nick Fuentes and thus represents a significant breakaway from the previous generation, because left-wing zoomers and left-wing boomers are similarly influenced by media, academia and popular culture. In contrast, right wing boomers are closer to their left wing boomer counterparts than they are to right wing zoomers whose politics is formed by memes, race and IQ studies, looksmaxxing, YouTube essays and Nick Fuentes.
The tastes and identity is just not the same and if a boomer and a zoomer do happen to share something in common, whatever they are sharing was generated by a zoomer like this popular giga-chad meme.
For decades, the Right accepted a subordinate position, they were the “loyal opposition” who recognized the liberal master’s right to set the moral tone. But the Far-Right Zoomer has achieved what Hegel calls “Self-Consciousness.” They have realized that the master (the Liberal Establishment) is actually dependent on the slave’s participation to exist. By withdrawing their recognition and creating their own counter-polity on the internet they are becoming masters of their own.
The cultural impact of Zoomers on our political culture is significantly higher than that of any other generation, yet the economic, and political plight of Zoomers is significantly poorer than of any other generation. This creates a natural breeding room for resentment.
And that’s not just wealth by the way. Sex, social respect, the social position of their identity group and many other things that provide people with dignitary. Generation Z feels like they are sub-human because the political system does not respond to them nor is it able to properly understand them, and thus they are forced to adopt extreme strategies of survival as a way to get recognized or overthrow the system.
In the current generational hierarchy, the Boomer establishment acts as the "Master" the one who consumes the labor and attention of the youth while granting them no status in return. Whereas, Gen Z has been relegated to the position of the "Slave," working within a system that refuses to see them as peers.
The irony in all of that is that the slaves sees their and world’s condition better than the master who is utterly delusional which can again be best observed in the dialogue between Nick Fuentes and Piers Morgan, who proved himself to be completely out of touch with concerns that are dominating our generation.
If politics is driven by the demand for recognition and no force grants or withholds recognition more powerfully than the recognition of identity then all politics ultimately reduces to identity politics.
Liberal women seek validation in the empowered, independent identity promised to them by leftists, but due to inherent biological differences between men and women it is never attainable, leading to frustration and anger.
Meanwhile, the neglected White conservative men desire power and recognition as America’s natural leaders, yet left-wing cultural dominance and the Conservative establishment’s subordination to these norms prevents this, driving some toward far-right alternatives.
Even if you try to de-racialize this phenomenon, buying a house is by itself a form of achieving a particular identity as a productive member of society just as being a content creator is a way of attaining social recognition and prestige.
And so whatever identity people have developed as a result of being exposed to the internet, whether it’s a non-binary femboy feminist or a tradcath looksmaxxer who is watching based and redpilled documentaries on the Holocaust, these identities and the political demands which they create crave for recognition and for as long as they are not acknowledged and integrated into society, these freshly created identity groups are going to eventually destroy society as we know it, whether in the face of the Republican Party or in the face of etiquette.
And while I do see the establishment integrating the left, I don’t see the political establishment ever fully meeting the demands of the far-right segment of Zoomers, which is why the Far-Right Gen Z is the true passionary voice of the Generation who would rather engage in a high-stakes conflict than continue providing the "unilateral recognition" that the current liberal order demands. As a result, I expect further radicalization for Gen Z, along with a continued escalation in intergenerational conflict, for as long as those demands remain unfulfilled.
As Monsieur Z said, Trump is not radical enough and he failed to deliver the promise for Gen Z. I think we know why, he is not doing it for our generation, which explains why his ratings among Gen Z fell harder than any other demographic.
The good news is that because the slave eventually gains a clearer perspective of reality than the master given that the slave must navigate the world to survive, while the master becomes soft and delusional, trapped in his own consumption. This is exactly what we see today: a boomer lead-class that is cognitively declining, while a radicalized Gen Z uses the "work" of the internet to forge a new, terrifyingly sharp consciousness that will takeover the establishment.
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