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I'm no political analyst, but this seems significant https://t.co/Q7KmOkgRMY

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Oct 14, 2026

October 14, 2026 at 04:41PM

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Absolutely true https://t.co/4cuDgJLEzF

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Oct 13, 2026

October 13, 2026 at 02:07PM

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Amen https://t.co/8nosz7ilRk

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Oct 10, 2026

October 10, 2026 at 06:34PM

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Social media platforms from X to Instagram to Facebook have become inundated with a kind of conspiratorial Jew-hatred that used to be relegated to the fringes of the web. https://t.co/SUbYrdzIEG

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Oct 8, 2026

October 8, 2026 at 10:32AM

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Zoomers do not care about being called an antisemite. American Jews and Christian philosemites who throw this label around liberally make matters worse. Let low-IQ Jew Haters assume their natural role of being the old crazy man yelling at clouds. Let them be stupid.

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Oct 7, 2026

October 7, 2026 at 04:23PM

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I've been saying this for a long time. https://t.co/weVXXlmjze

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Oct 7, 2026

October 7, 2026 at 04:13PM

Gen Zzz

 

By Frank Filocomo

Gen Z is becoming "the nihilistic generation."

Many Zoomers - particularly Zoomer men - feel as though they'll never be able to own a home or provide for a family on one income like their parents did. 

Memes like this are all over social media:

To be sure, many of the memes that utilize this format are actually quite funny. But there's no denying that they're profoundly sad, too. They strike a nerve, an indisputable truth. 

29-year-olds in Brooklyn, where I live, are not home or landowners; they rent studio apartments they can barely afford. Some just rent rooms at $1,000/month. 

Cats have supplanted kids. Don't get me wrong, I love cats, but this is a negative development. 

Out birthrate in the U.S. is below replacement. 

What's more, it feels like the life has been sucked out of Zoomers. 

This X post is instructive:

Statistically, Gen Zs are: - reading fewer books - less sexually active - drinking less alcohol - smoking less than millennials - less likely to follow cricket - dumber than previous generations - not wasting afternoons watching ants crawl so bc wtf are they actually doing?

— microaggression (@mutton2pyaza) September 29, 2026

Sure, this anonymous X user doesn't bother backing up any of these claims, but the general thesis is accurate. That is, Gen Z is "Generation House Cat."  

Generation House Cat doesn't drink, have sex, participate in social events, or read.

They prefer comfort. And, don't get me wrong, I get the appeal. 

Comfort, however, isn't conducive to human growth. On the contrary, it stunts growth. 

But how do Zoomers snap out of this fog?

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Conservatism has never been about maximizing efficiency at all costs. Libertarianism and pro-data center/AI sentiment must be divorced from the movement. We are about people, full stop.

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Sep 27, 2026

September 27, 2026 at 01:42PM

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Don't speak your truth; Speak THE truth!

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Sep 26, 2026

September 26, 2026 at 03:30PM

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Nah, I don't like it. Showing up to a job interview with a grande iced mocha is just disrespectful. Leave your beverages at the door. Generation Sweatpants needs to get its act together... https://t.co/2FsEBJXrr2

— Frank Filocomo (@FilocomoFrank) Sep 25, 2026

September 25, 2026 at 01:11PM

The West's Friendship Epidemic

By Frank Filocomo

Some unfortunate - albeit, unsurprising - news from our friends across the pond:

A new report released by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) paints an inauspicious picture for young people in England.  

Commenting on the report for The Guardian, Denis Campbell writes:

The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.

Not only do Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha have fewer friends than in years prior, they're also increasingly discontent with their preexisting friendships:

From the article:

Young people’s relationships also appeared less strong than before. The proportion of 14- and 15-year-olds who were completely or very happy with their friendships fell from 86% to 76% between the periods 2012-14 and 2023-25.

To say these are troubling findings would be a grave understatement.

The loneliness epidemic - in England, the US, and elsewhere - ought to be seen, not as a mere inconvenience or troubling development - but as a national public health emergency.

Invariably, a widespread decline in friendship connotes a weakening of a country's social capital and thus an atrophying of the all-important social muscle that enables us to work together, network, and better our communities and, by extension, nations. 

How times have changed.

When I was a teenager in the 2010s, the UK-based show Skins was all the rage.

The show depicted a rather libertine picture of British youth.

Just about every episode involved sex, recreational drug use, out-of-control parties, and general mischief. 

While one might come away from the show thinking that English youth are recalcitrant, uninhibited, and impish, they certainly wouldn't think that they were bereft of close friends. 

If anything, the characters in Skins were surrounded by an unusual number of friends, albeit not always of the best moral standing.

Skins UK cast

There's no question that the recreational drug use and unprotected casual sex portrayed in Skins is inadvisable - we all already know this - but, hell, at least they were outside, touching grass, and interacting with each other without the interference of now-ubiquitous screens.

Less is not always more.

We've all heard that Americans are drinking and smoking less.

What's more, the teenage birth rate in the US continues to fall.

To be sure, these are all positive developments. 

In some ways, though, the decline in drinking, smoking, and teen pregnancies indicates a different problem: timidity, trepidation, and a dearth in IRL socialization. 

Today, young people spend more time inside, looking at screens. Forget about the prospect of approaching a woman at a bar; that potentially awkward social interaction has been remedied by dating apps!

And, while we likely don't have data on this, I'm sure young people are staying out past their curfews less.

We've taken a generation of mischievous youngsters and have made them into house cats.

What we lost. 

In 2018, author of Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy came to speak at my college. 

Skenazy, for those who don't know, wrote a very provocative article called "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone," which is, you guessed it, about the time she let her 9-year-old son take the subway unsupervised and without a cell phone. All he had was $20 and a subway map. 

When Skenazy came to speak to my class at St. Francis College, I thought she was crazy. 

I still think she is, but now I see the merit in her argument.

Safetyism, of the sort that Jon Haidt and Greg Lukianoff write about in The Coddling of the American Mind, has created a culture wherein comfort is the ultimate virtue and discomfort is the thing to be avoided at all costs.

Thus, we have inadvertently created a generation of puritans who don't drink, smoke, have sex, approach women, or have fun at all. 

What's needed is not a resurgence of libertinism, but of fun, play, and adventure. 

Friends will be made along the way.