MILLENNIALS LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP

Guest Post by TPC

Millennial men are an interesting group, as the recent political winds favor their eradication almost entirely. Oh, the Left want your productivity, your strength of back, and your insights, but they want to keep this while changing everything else about you.

Still, in a post-Trumpening world, it appears that the sexless childlike minnie men are starting to slowly pull their heads out of the sand and look around to see what kind of world they are creating for themselves. These poor bastards are questioning everything they’ve ever been told, and don’t like the answers they find. Some dive face first into their shallow pools of cognitive dissonance, too afraid to face a reality so at odds with their own chosen paradigm. Some become outraged, and swing so far in the opposite direction that they embrace the most insane and illogical of conspiracies. However, the vast majority of them are rocked back on their heels, unsure of what to do next. They find the left end of the spectrum appalling, and the conspiracy-riddled far right to be pure lunacy. They are in a holding pattern, looking for a symbol of hope.

So what then for these?

Leadership. And not the faux leadership of the left, which claims that they have a divine mandate from the Hermaphrodite Gods of yore, nor the faux leadership of the far right, a world in which anarchy is frequently pushed.

I was at the bar the other day, and an elderly gentleman I had not seen before was there enjoying a Jim Beam on ice. I should have known I would like him based on drink choice alone, that’s my old man’s first, second, and third drink choice. My wife approached the bar to buy our table another bottle of wine, and she struck up conversation with the man, as she is wont to do with anyone with two ears and a generous helping of time. As they spoke eventually the man asked:

“So you are a millennial right?” To which my wife nodded, smirking.

“Well, you seem to have your head screwed on straight for someone your age! Tell me, I work with Millennials all the time, how in the world can I get them to work?”

Please let it be known that my wife looks like an utter creampuff. Long blonde hair, stylish glasses, pin-up style makeup, and a custom dress. So when she marched over to the book-shelf and pulled out the bar’s only copy of Strauss and Howe’s The Fourth Turning the man look truly stunned.

“You want to know about my generation?” she said, “Then read this! It will tell you everything you need to know about my generation, your generation, and the next one as well!”

The man looked shocked. My wife is a former hooter’s waitress, turned housewife. The last person you would expect to recommend a high-brow piece of work like 4T theory.

He perused the back cover and the interior, remarking on the pithy nature of the volume.

Again with that (sometimes infuriating) smirk, my wife replied, “Oh you will have to read it more than once. There is no way you can get through it once and still retain it all.”

So he goes back to flipping through the pages and then asked “Well, this is great at a generational level, but what about my current problems?”

My wife pointed in my direction, “For that you’ll need my husband. He is a Millennial who manages Millennials.”

I waved at the table, and the man called out to me “So what do you say then? How do you lead a Millennial?”

I hollered back, “Kick ’em in the ass early and often until they get moving. After that, only kick their asses a little.”

He barked a surprise laugh, “So the same as everyone else then?”

“Yup,” I confirmed, “the same as everyone else.”

The rules surrounding simple, effective leadership never change. These Millennial men rarely had fathers of the caliber needed to guide a young man into adulthood, and the focus on the state and later on globalism has completely destroyed the community of masculine leaders they would normally have been able to look up to. But now these kids are waking up and their frame of mind is ripe for some good ole fashioned leadership.

In a world made needlessly complex by technology and politicians some questions really do have the simplest of answers.