THE STANDARD
OPINION
Activist Boniface Mwangi is arrested for reportedly interfering with Labour Day celebrations at Uhuru Park, Nairobi, in 2016. [File, Standard]
Millennials have been labelled as being apathetic, lazy and disengaged. The undeniable truth is that this generation has done things differently from what had been considered as the norm. Interestingly this generation is not monolithic, they wear different stripes.
Contrary to them being branded meek and weak, millennials approach to power dynamics is with an ‘all or nothing’ attitude.
They possess an emotionally-fuelled mob mentality with instinct to burn down society. They harbour a sense of being disenfranchised and the feeling of being victimised by the society for wanting more and wanting better than the generations preceding theirs. A collective resentment of having to inherit a system that is collapsing is embedded in their psyche.