Lack of Context and Egocentric Ignorance

Lack of Context and Egocentric Ignorance

By: Erreh Svaia

The over enthusiastic response of Millennials towards Metallica's newest album, Hardwired... To Self-Destruct, proves a major point about the current state of modern society, Millennials consider it now as Metallica's greatest record, mainly because they never heard Kill Em All, Ride The Lighting or Master of Puppets at their prime, they think of Lulu as if it didn't happen simply because they don't know who Lou Reed is, and their only reference in order to build an opinion is the awful St Anger, lack of historical context and egocentric ignorance, those are Millennials’ sins, the same happens with Socialism, Millennials think it is the greatest thing because they knew nothing about the USSR at its prime, the violent crush of the Hungarian Revolution or of the Prague Spring, they prefer to think as if Stalin and the Iron Curtain never happened and their only point of reference is Bernie Sanders, and for the far right, they think the alt right is cool because they don't know about Nazi Germany, they prefer to think of the Holocaust as if it never happened and their only point of reference is Putin, again, lack of historical context and egocentric ignorance.