2015: Triggering
March 23, 2022
By AHNZ
The Triggering particularly begain in Western Culture from c.2015. Certain people started saying “I’m triggered.” What was it, what is it?
It’s a call-back to personal trauma.
It’s a big red button on your chest for the world to push and down-regulate you into reptilian fight/flight/freeze.
It’s the pain we carry from the damage of being unprotected in, usually, childhood.
The essential thing that happened in 2015 when the Millennial Generation came of age is that it became everyone else’s problem and responsibility. “I’m Triggered” stopped being an admission of a personal flaw which could then be responded to with healing sympathy (or ridicule.) It became currency. “I’m Triggered” started conferring un-chosen positive obligations on the stimulus. The Triggered did’t have to change: The world did.
The psychological fusion didn’t stop there. The Millennial sought to process their unresolved inner pain the way their teachers and parents had taught them to. At College something called ‘Safe Spaces’ sprang up and spread. As the generation gained an even greater hold in the culture our entire planet was teraformed into a giant Safe Space revolving around rules: nose tests, face masks, contact tracing, jabs, boosters, lockdowns, curfews, isolation, passports, payouts, shutdowns,…
“The Child Protection Movement pampered the young Millennial Generation, handing them unprecidented ‘support’ at each of their developmental milestones. In the 1990s, the first Millennials were up and cycling. It was OK for Gen X to have exciting Adventure Playgrounds, no helmets, and even cycle pedals made of spikes, but Millennials were entitled to privileged treatment or so their Boomer parents insisted.”- The Stackhat Deception; AHNZ
“Rather than Millennials Rising, it’s Millennials Hurting. The astounding figures reveal poor quality of life for this now adult generation. In my opinion many of them are able to mitigate their suffering by offloading it onto others, causing the world to suffer and walk on eggshells so as not to “trigger” their delicate and pampered constitutions. The Victimhood Culture Millennials look to The State to provide a giant stack hat to protect them from contact with reality. Unfortunately they have been raised to be children not to be adults.” – 2010s: Millennials Hurting, AHNZ
“So true. The annoying thing about the pandemic is not the rules and regulations, it’s the lack of perfectly coordinated systems and teamwork. So many Millennials on Twitter are complaining about not enough coordination and rules being too relaxed.” – Ref. 2020: Millennial Fetal Contentment
Since the redefinition of ‘triggering’ in c.2015 we have also seen behavior previously recognised as symptomatic of mental illness. Self-mutilation (tattoos, piercings,) morbid obesity, sexual deviance, racism, transgenderism all became normalised under such terms as ‘body shaming’, ‘polyamourous’, ‘sex positive’ etc. Such trends have appeared in our history before but this time it drove the delivery of a technology not possible before: Personal electronic devices and Social Media. Technology made the avoidance of reality more complete than ever before. Plato’s Cave had never been rendered in such high resolution colour screens with multiple cameras and beauty filters before.
The COVID Hysteria (2020-2022) has been an external source of calming to the Triggered. They feel safe in the controlled, externally coordinated, environment. Those who meet their own safety needs internally find the Covid Hysteria measures inhibiting, stressful, and ‘Safe Spaces’ coddling and fictitious.
Trends always run their course. How will it end? The Triggered ones have a huge mental health struggle ahead of them when the world stops supplying their inner needs via a welfare program. A Lemming Cycle is afoot as an entire generation risks being swept away, unfit to flourish in this world and continue their family line with the cultural toolkit they have. Leaders from within are required who can take the maladapted generation away from the habits of a lifetime and resume their human development: In other words, grow up.
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Ref. Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness – Simon Sinek, After Skool; Youtube (2017)
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