Why Christofuturism Will Save Gen Alpha
This is how we can help this next generation avert the tragic fate of Millennials
Date: June 10, 2025
It sucks to be a Millennial. It's also as bad to be Gen Z. And Gen Alpha, growing up in post-COVID educational chaos, is heading straight toward the same civilizational cliff.
Young people today are tumbleweeds – disconnected, floating, rootless – because we've lost the fundamental capacity to build the minimum viable units of civilization that human flourishing requires.
The math is brutal and simple: Millennials can't afford homes. Starting a family means drowning in debt. The basic infrastructure of human life – building cost-effective housing, creating stable communities, maintaining cultural continuity – has been systematically destroyed. We've lost our capacity as Americans to construct buildings efficiently, to create affordable living, to make the daily experience of existence feel anything other than an expensive, grinding struggle against forces we can't control.
Meanwhile, the internet and AI have fine-tuned themselves to maximize engagement by maximizing the disintegration of society and truth itself. We're fractured across infinite narratives – men versus women, Democrat versus Republican, pro-Israel versus pro-Palestine – all designed to keep us isolated, arguing, and consuming content instead of building anything real. Every controversial take, every outrage cycle, every algorithm-driven division makes us more alone and less capable of the collective action required to create civilization.
This is why most of us feel like dandelion seeds floating through the air instead of rooted plants in a thriving ecosystem. We're desperately searching for the equivalent of ancient trees of life that we saw in Disney movies – stable, nourishing home bases where authentic culture can form and flourish. But the default cities and cultures that kids are growing up in are factories for producing more tumbleweeds, not rooted human beings capable of supporting and being supported by genuine community.
Christofuturism is the answer because it operates at the correct scale of intervention.
Instead of applying band-aid solutions to civilizational collapse, Christofuturism recognizes that we must build a minimum viable unit of civilization. This means creating a cohesive alternative across all seven mountains (or layers) of society, making them operate from a single, coherent worldview that's grounded in timeless truths but connected to where things are going and ought to go. This includes: family structures that support rather than fragment human bonds, religion that provides meaning rather than empty ritual, education that develops rather than indoctrinates young minds, media that informs rather than manipulates, arts and entertainment that elevate rather than degrade the human spirit, business that serves rather than exploits communities, and government that protects rather than controls its citizens.
This isn't about creating isolated communes or retreating from the world. This is about building villages that become cities that become city networks that eventually offer a civilizational alternative to the fragmenting default culture. A place where human flourishing isn't a heroic individual effort against impossible odds, but the natural result of being part of a coherent, rooted ecosystem designed for life instead of extraction.
The crisis of loneliness, depression, and giving up that defines young people today isn't a personal failing – it's the predictable result of trying to thrive in a civilizational environment designed to produce spiritual and material poverty. Gen Z and Gen Alpha don't need therapy; they need functioning civilization. They don't need individual solutions; they need collective infrastructure that makes human flourishing the default rather than the exception.
Christofuturism begins to point to the blueprint for building that infrastructure. It provides the philosophical foundation for creating communities where starting a family doesn't require financial suicide, where building beautiful, affordable housing is standard practice, where cultural narratives support rather than undermine human dignity and purpose.
The choice is stark: Continue watching generations of young people turn into isolated, depressed tumbleweeds in a culture designed to fragment and extract from them, or begin the hard work of building the full civilizational stack. This means rebuilding all seven mountains of society—from family and religion to business and government—into a cohesive whole that makes human flourishing possible again.
Millennials got sacrificed to late-stage capitalism and digital fragmentation. Gen Z is drowning in the same systems. Gen Alpha doesn't have to follow the same path, but only if we stop thinking in terms of individual fixes and start building the minimum viable civilizations that can grow into flywheel effects of genuine human flourishing.
The work starts now. The alternative is watching more generations disappear into the digital wasteland of modern American life.