Generation wh(Y)?
Being a part of generation y,(anywhere from late 70's to early 90's) seems to be a real trying time for most people. As much as technology and medicine have become better then they have ever been, happiness is at an all time low. How can this be? parents want to ask, but everyone in our generation has a general feeling that something isn't right, that they belong in a different time, that this just doesn't feel like what life is supposed to be about.
This is actually very true. We are the first generation to not have a generation. We are the first generation to be raised by robots instead of parents. We are the first generation to have full access to every bit of knowledge the world has ever known. We are the future. Not in the sense that they say every child is the future, but in the sense that we are the ambassadors to the new world. We are the generation to welcome all future generations to the age of technology. This is not a good thing. People have too much access to too much material at much too young an age. What does this lead to?
This leads to instant gratification disease. That means that no matter what we do, we want to see the results instantly. This comes from having things like high speed internet, or internet on our phones, or wireless anywhere we go. The internet has made it so we have access to anything and everything at the click of a button. Well why is that so bad? It's bad because life is set up for people that aren't from our information generation. It's bad because we can get anything we want in the blink of an eye yet still are required to go to school for 16 years before we can see any reward. This doesn't make sense for our generation. While I'm sitting in Statistics class hour after hour filling my brain with useless information, I find myself dragging my feet. This is because life is much more fast paced then they are allowing us to go. Worksheets and multiple choice tests were all cute and fine when we were younger, but now things need to be upgraded. The idea of learning and knowledge has changed. We learn multiple times in one class session what has taken millions of men thousands of years to come up with. What does that mean for us?
Everything is taken for granted. Why would we want to put ourselves through fifteen years of school when we have access to the world's infinite information anytime anywhere. It's almost like there is a new way of learning, and it's not learning. We are allowed to act as if the hard drive in our computers is the hard drive in our heads, and really who can tell the difference. If someone comes up and tells you anything at all, chances are they read it on the internet. This means that it doesn't matter what we know because our good friend the internet keeps everything we could ever want to know much more organized then our brain will ever do. The point of all this is to help older generations like parents and teachers realize that, of course every kid has ADHD, of course every kid has a short attention span, of course every kid realizes that the path their parents took is completely different from the path they have to take. The world has done a 180 and nothing at all is the same as it was for them. Everything in our lives is very condensed. This means we could go to you tube and watch ten videos in ten minutes, each with a different story and plenty of jokes, so how are we supposed to sit in class and listen to someone talk to us about something we don't care about for hours at a time. It's impossible, yet it is still required that not only do we attend for the first quarter of our lives, but we have to try and remember all the things they are saying. This is not even fair for anyone. How are we supposed to remember what is going on in our lives, what other people are doing, what every word said in class is, what every word in a school book is? Those aren't the problem. Those are exactly what our parents had to remember and that's it. Added on to that we also have: who called or texted us today, what we read on the internet, what was on our tivo, what we bought on the internet, what was said talking on instant messager, what we saw in the online part of our classes, who is doing what on each reality show, and who is watching and hearing everything we do. This may seem like an exaggeration, but in fact it is much the opposite. All they had to deal with was whoever they ran into that day back in 1975, we can talk to or get in multiple forms of contact with anyone we have ever met in a matter of seconds. This can lead to many more problems.
The media isn't helping things either. They are molding the simple minded people into worthless drones. Everyone wants to be the next Paris Hilton, or some stupid fucking social lite like that. People are so terrified of actually interacting with real people, everyone walks with their head down and people never think about talking to someone new unless the situation forces it. When I walk around and all I see is North Face fleeces, Ugg boots, and Coach purses, I understand why I feel such negative feelings towards people. Everyone is a fucking photocopy of what they are supposed to be and it is sick. The whole concept of marriage is thrown out the window because for marriage to be even possible, people need to be real with themselves first, yet I walk around everyday hearing conversations I heard on the Hills the day before. The point is our generation is so damn confused about what they should be doing with life, they are grabbing on to anything and everything shoved in their faces that might show them a reason to be here. For girls it's guys, for guys it's sex and money. These combinations really don't add up to equal successful marriage.
Marriage, school, and the American Dream, should be thrown out the window. Those no longer exist. America isn't America, it's an old used up whore who has sold her ideals and foundation for money and power. Now our generation is supposed to pick up the pieces and help fix what these old fuckers have done, making this place a racial hate ground of laziness and crime, where all men hate all men. Sorry, our generation is cashing out of this one. The ability of our generation to see the mistakes of the past, doesn't mean it's our shit to shovel. Hey we didn't start the fire, and generation y sure as fuck isn't going to put it out. They have made the world and life unrepairable for our generation through greed, arrogance, ignorance, and stupid ideals, and we are the ones getting yelled at for being raised by the methods they have laid down.
Well, I'm saying fuck that, and fuck them. I don't need a fucking government to protect me from terrorists. I did nothing to piss anyone off. So take your bullshit baggage elsewhere and deal with it because our generation has to deal with the huge identity problem that you have given us by making the wrong choices in your time. It's hard for us to work our asses off for 20 years to know in another 20 our jobs will be taken not only by illegal immigrants, but also robots. We are left sitting here wondering Y? Y are we supposed to work for this shit when, it means nothing to us and will be lost faster then we could produce it. Y are we here? Y did they tell me everything was going to be ok? Generation Y should be asking Y the fuck do we listen. They don't have the answers out there. They don't understand the huge generation gap made from computers. So we must lead ourselves into the future. We must trek the path to make this life worth living. Make it worth more then school shootings, suicides, reality t.v., and terrorist wars. We must get the fuck away from these stupid non-evolved morons that continue to make terrible decisions for us. Our time is now, either we step up and start something new, or we fall into the tar pits that they have created everywhere.
It's time for a revolution.
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