Excerpt from Generational Pseudoscience.

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What would you do, if you weren’t afraid to die?

This is the question that most millennials face in their lives. Born under Pluto in the sign of Scorpio, they are armed with fearlessness against Death itself and determined to live fulfilling lives above all other concerns. This is the generation which coined the term YOLO (You Only Live Once), which became their catchphrase of choice while engaging in risky behaviors. To them, since there is only one life we can be sure of having, then it must be exhausted until the soul is fulfilled and death is finally welcome. No other generation thus far has had such a thirst for living as this one.

It is quite ironic then, that they are likely the first generation to achieve human immortality when humanity unlocks its secrets in a few decades, as confirmed by various sources like the Boston Globe, Medium.com, Psychology Today, and many others. Talk about power over death!

This fearlessness against death is hardly natural to them. In fact, any fearlessness of a lasting sort is generally an acquired one. In their youth, their paranoid Pluto in Virgo or narcissistic Pluto in Leo parents sheltered or restrained their lives into being like theirs. They were mistaken in this action, as the world of the millennials is a much different one—in fact, a greatly transformed one. This is due to the explosion of the Internet into the mainstream occurring somewhere in their youth or early adulthood. Nevertheless, their parents curtailed their freedom to transform while inside the nest, and most of them lived restricted lives where they felt their true nature stifled under the burden of parental expectations. They drank this hook, line, and sinker, giving trust freely to the people they were supposed to. In their coming of age, they ultimately realized how limited they had been due to the control or influence others have had on their lives, and their extremism is born, determined to break taboos in a society that restricted their personal fulfillment.

In their lives, they struggle with betrayal and power-tripping. Betrayal came at an early age to this generation.

In the 80’s and 90’s, they were considered special and even heroic by their predecessors, who were still in the honeymoon stage with their young children. They were showered with resources, praise, and needless participation trophies, in the motive that they would appreciate this special treatment one day and reciprocate back to their elders, just like a proper investment. But they weren’t investments. They’re children, real people. Showered unnecessarily with things that weren’t good for them and controlled completely by their helicopter parents, they ended up spoiled and clueless in their youth.

However, they eventually grew up, lost their childish charms and began to annoy their parents with their strange “needs,” like a good Wi-Fi connection or an iPod. The recession came and the student debts piled up, unemployment rates skyrocketed, and they started fighting in the wars. Some of them even fell victim to sexual, psychological, or physical abuse as children. Their first love—usually someone they’ve totally obsessed over—betrayed them over the cell phone or the internet or replaced them with pornography, which was now increasingly widespread. Once showered with money, they were now broke adults, the lavish assets they used to have now old or obsolete. Gradually it dawned on them that the world wasn’t as idyllic as their parents, now distant, have preached all throughout their youths. Worse, they’re still reeling from an invisible wound caused by the betrayal of those they trusted the most. When they complain, they’re merely dismissed as ingrates by those who showered them with needless luxuries just to shut them up or show them off as children, and who now have moved on to the younger, free-spirited Gen Z.

Naturally, having endured traumatic feelings and disillusionment such as this, they became prone to suffering from psychological disorders, such as depression or eating disorders. The depression undergone by many in this generation stems from traumatic experiences, abandonment, or even the mere nostalgia of the days when the world was still slower in pace and more idealistic. This is, after all, a nostalgic generation—the “90s Kids.”

Enduring treatment like this from those they held dear, they developed a sharp instinct regarding human nature, fine-tuned to detect those who only mean to take advantage of their trust. They developed an accurate sense of suspicion, learning intuitively how to weed out the lies that people tell themselves. They hate bullshit in all forms and put a high premium on loyalty and honesty—no matter how brutal. Having experienced first-hand the damage that lies could cause, they determined to break all barriers in society and eliminate all B.S. they could find.

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