{"id":1996231,"date":"2023-08-10T03:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T07:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-gen-z-should-pursue-truth-instead-of-self-discovery\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T03:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T07:34:45","slug":"why-gen-z-should-pursue-truth-instead-of-self-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-gen-z-should-pursue-truth-instead-of-self-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z: Seek truth, not self-discovery."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-gen-z-should-pursue-truth-instead-of-self-discovery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Unveiling the Hidden\u200d Truth: A Kaleidoscopic Journey<\/h2>\n<p>I have never owned \u200ba kaleidoscope. But whenever I see one in a small trinket shop or \u2063on a shelf in the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, I have\u200b also never \u200bbeen able to resist. Whenever I would pick one up and hold it toward \u2063the ceiling light, my eye \u2062would fill with bright reflections \u2062of hot pink and sky-blue triangles fading into squares, fading \u2062into stars.<\/p>\n<p>I am in college \u200cnow and have much less time to explore gift shops. But I did learn a few things from\u2064 my kaleidoscope studies \u2064over the years. First, each kaleidoscope \u2014 or at least each well-designed kaleidoscope \u2014 has a center around\u200b which everything spins. And second, without\u2064 a light\u2064 source to illuminate the dance, they are not much more\u2064 than clutter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Center of the Story<\/h3>\n<p>I had the privilege of working in \u200bWashington, D.C., this summer as \u2063an intern for The Federalist. Over these \u2064past months of perpetual \u2064Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/01\/evidence-of-biden-burisma-corruption-is-overwhelming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corruption<\/a>, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/02\/doj-indictment-of-trump-is-a-declaration-of-war-against-american-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">targeting<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/27\/beneath-the-pink-patriarchy-hate-barbie-tries-to-answer-what-is-a-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barbenheimer<\/a> blockbusters, my colleagues have covered some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-gen-z-should-pursue-truth-instead-of-self-discovery\/\" title=\"Gen Z: Seek truth, not self-discovery.\">pretty jarring news stories \u2014 arguably<\/a> among \u200bsome of the\u200c biggest in the history of our country. And even though\u200d D.C. may be short on \u200dCracker\u200c Barrels, I have learned that these talented reporters are united by a common \u2062kaleidoscopic question:<\/p>\n<p><em>What is at the center?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to corrupt \u2063business dealings, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/videos\/hemingway-america-cant-survive-a-two-tiered-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-tiered<\/a> justice systems, \u2062and estranged <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/29\/people-magazine-acknowledges-navy-biden-after-getting-the-ok-signal-from-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">granddaughters<\/a>, there is always more to the \u200dstory. There is a center \u2014 an accumulated coverup, a depraved society, an immoral heart \u2063\u2014 \u2064around which\u2064 the facts ultimately spin.<\/p>\n<p>American \u200bGen Zers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-special-agent-finds-17514-georgia-voters-with-out-of-state-forwarded-mail-addresses\/\" title=\"Former FBI Special Agent Finds 17,514 Georgia Voters with Out-of-State Forwarded Mail Addresses\">college students<\/a>\u200c today tend to consume\u200b \u201cthe \u2063facts\u201d at face value, acting all proud and unbiased about the statistics \u200dand \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-dont-fall-for-bidens-talking-points-about-inflation-heres-where-we-really-are\/\" title=\"Op-Ed: Don't Be Fooled by Biden's Inflation Claims - The Truth Revealed\">talking \u2063points<\/a> we have memorized. But we are resistant to taking the deep dive, to discovering what \u201cthe facts\u201d actually reveal. Maybe \u200cit\u2019s the immediacy of social \u200dmedia, or the seeming essential \u200coil and gym-rat <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/VZh0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trustworthiness<\/a> of influencers behind the screen. Maybe it \u2063is\u2064 the political\u2063 polarization on \u200dour university campuses or a combination of all these things.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Questioning the Information<\/h3>\n<p>But\u200c maybe it \u2062has something to do with our \u2062unwillingness to ask a simple question about\u2063 the information we consume: \u201cWhat is at the center?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have experienced \u2064and witnessed\u200d a dangerous \u200durge to immediately compartmentalize information into pre-determined, self-actualized \u2063boxes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>That agrees with who \u2064I am. I\u2062 accept it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>That\u2064 does not validate who \u2062I am. I reject it.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a Disney-like attempt to \u201cfollow our dreams\u201d and \u2063\u201cbe\u200c ourselves,\u201d (the overarching, tired message of almost every childhood film we \u2063watched growing up), \u200dwe \u200dhave made ourselves the center.<\/p>\n<p>But the larger issue is that society and even our \u200dgovernment and guiding institutions validate this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/too-dead-to-live-and-too-alive-to-die-gen-z-is-generation-zombie\/\" title=\"Too Dead To Live And Too Alive To Die, Gen Z Is Generation Zombie\">main character syndrome<\/a>. Well, as long as our\u2062 version of self-discovery\u2064 matches\u200c their ideal \u2062\u2014 rejection\u2062 of traditional values and deconstruction of everything you\u2063 thought you knew. No wonder college \u2064students today \u200bfeel so \u200dlost, caught\u200c in a\u200d tug-of-war between\u200b the \u201cencouragement\u201d to self-actualize and the demand to conform. Talk about an identity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>When \u201cself-discovery\u201d\u2064 becomes a pride flag above the White House lawn and the\u200c requirement that our nation <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/13\/the-american-and-rainbow-flags-stand-for-two-incompatible-definitions-of-liberty-and-only-one-can-rule-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bends a knee<\/a> to gender ideology, public opinion has \u2062been hijacked. Incidences like this accompanied by an ever-emerging totalitarian effort to destroy \u2064the opposition \u2014 whether it be canceling individuals or indicting political opponents \u2014\u200c are ultimately an effort to redefine right and wrong. And then, the\u2063 targeting of children, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/26\/naked-men-freely-expose-themselves-to-kids-at-pride-because-the-right-bought-the-lefts-tolerance-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">born<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/13\/surrogate-with-cancer-forced-to-end-babys-life-after-pressure-from-parents-but-in-every-surrogacy-babies-come-last\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preborn<\/a>, by adults who\u2063 cannot be inconvenienced \u2014 \u200dthe ultimate evidence that ideology \u2063has reached god status.<\/p>\n<p>All of \u200cthis reveals a dark and ugly dance, \u2064one revolving around this nation\u2019s unwillingness to recognize reality.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, \u200cI have learned that bringing reality into the light \u2063ultimately\u200d requires a return to good personal journalism. Not some intellectually contrived composition by \u2064which information is \u201celitely\u201d interpreted for the layman. \u2063Not \u2062confirmation bias-ridden or \u200dcherry-picked \u201cnews\u201d stories that exist to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2023\/texas-abortion-law-teen-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">perpetuate<\/a> \u2062manufactured talking \u200cpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Rather,\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-tragic-glenn-greenwald-laments-destruction-of-media-credibility-pinpoints-trump-years-as-breaking-point\/\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s Tragic\u2019: Glenn Greenwald Laments Destruction Of Media Credibility, Pinpoints \u2018Trump Years\u2019 As Breaking Point\">good journalism<\/a> \u2062is the individual endeavor to investigate everything while\u200d clinging to what is <strong>real<\/strong>.\u2064 To realize that \u201cthe facts\u201d do not create\u2062 truth, but rather inherently point to it. That is the type of \u2064child-like kaleidoscopic study to which Gen Zers\u200b and college students \u200cmust return \u2014 seeing the clutter and asking \u201cwhat is at the center\u201d while holding \u2062reality up to the light.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never owned a kaleidoscope, yet I can&#8217;t resist picking one up whenever I spot it in a trinket shop or Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. Holding it to the light, my eyes fill with vibrant reflections, captivating me every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2168,"featured_media":1996232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}