This past week in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three different political candidates in local races—each of those candidates won their election. The natural question is: why? Why is it that Mamdani has such political pull? Why is the guy that blew through New York City’s budget in six months and then demanded a $12 billion bailout from the state considered to be, at the very least philosophically, the future of the political left? Some have made attempts to answer this question by pointing to the rising costs of living—home prices, gas prices, grocery costs, and rising debt—these all may be real peripheral reasons as to why younger generations flirt with socialism and Marxism, but they aren’t the fundamental reason. To put it simply, they have been strategically conditioned over their lives to be evangelists for and agents of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche (along with others, but we’ll keep it simple).
Generation Z and the Unraveling of the World
Gen Z is the first generation to hold devices that they do not understand with application and algorithms that they cannot control (lest they completely get off of them) and which are not simply a “tool” of communication but rather a weapon against true communication.
