Nauseous 'Millennial traveller' video is just a cheap ad dressed up in high res clothes

One of the great dangers of creating an online video suggesting you've cracked the meaning of life is that you actually haven't.

Enter Global Degree TV, a case study in self-aggrandising pomposity by a commercial interest hopelessly trying to masquerade as your best friend from childhood.

The three-minute clip, something of a call to arms for "Millennial travellers" and "digital nomads", promotes the idea that life's complexities and realities can be overcome as simply as popping the red pill in The Matrix.

A monologue in the video entitled "Dear Older Generations" attacks the way of life of anyone unlucky enough to be born outside the Millennial years of 1982 – 2004.

The sweeping high-res drone footage is indeed beautiful and inspiring, but the message which promises to enlighten old folk has offended and alienated many.

Dripping with sarcasm, a narcissist narrator tells everyone from his digital soapbox that Millennials are "sorry for being unable to sit still in an office" and that "the cubicle is a wooden box".

So far not so new, kids have been thinking their mum and dad and their stupid way of life is pathetic long before the Millennials came along.

It's just that that timeless sentiment has mostly been communicated with shouting en route to the bedroom (paid for by said sell-out parents), and not broadcast to the world.

The fairy tale continues: "Sorry for not buying into the whole society expectation of a mortgage, a family and kids.

"You may call these desires selfish, but we believe that being in a relationship or raising kids while regretting not doing all these things is also selfish."

Some of the most galling footage comes as the narrator speaks about the Millennial traveller grasping the Zen-like difference "between living and merely existing".

The video cuts to a wounded US soldier being dragged by his buddy, probably in Iraq. The drone then appears to fly over one of Sarajevo's haunting urban cemeteries.

"Sorry if we don't support wars or react with anger or hatred. We fail to see how using the things we hope to abolish can do any good."

No one would argue with such admirable sentiments, if only it wasn't packaged up in a way that disrespects the countless millions who have died in wars, or those that have protested vigorously against them.

The film maker's website claims that for one "to graduate with a Global Degree, you must visit every UN nation in the world."

The Global Degree TV website tells us there 192 countries in all. It doesn't explain how even the most budget-conscious, bootstrapped Millenial traveller will pay for this.

As the drone flies over what looks like the beautiful halls of Oxford or Cambridge University, the narrator mocks those who sit in $30,000 a year lecture halls.

That kind of learning can simply be achieved for "free online", spouts the narrator, who has somehow forgot Oxford and Cambridge's 100+ Nobel prize-winners and other prodigious thinkers who have walked the hallowed quads.

After receiving a barrage of unhappy abuse, Global Degree TV issued an apology, declaring "age is no limitation".

The company even released a "Dear Younger Generations" kiss and make up video.

It's difficult to work out quite what Global Degree TV is all about, but on scrolling to the bottom of their website it all becomes clear in a line of travel-industry related sponsors.

The stylised invite to "obtain your Global Degree" is actually a cheap sales pitch. We're too old to fall for that.