Media, Meet Our Generation

The Politicizer ^ | June 2009 | Conor J Rogers

[FMoran]

Many pundits and commentators assume that they live in the same world as the current group of 16-20 somethings currently gathering all the media and political attention. Yet even if they have barely crossed the ’30 mark’ their world is still vastly different from ours. To point out a few differences, most of us learned to drive on two to three dollar a gallon gasoline and don’t consider it too bad, we’ve never really looked anything up in an encyclopedia except for an assignment, the internet is a part of our daily social lives rather than an addition to it, and for the most part the only thing most people our age remember about Bill Clinton is that he had an affair and his wife ran for President.

So really then, where are we coming from? If our world is so different from those who have come before us, what shaped it? To start out, as young people, we are understandably frustrated – either with the new President, the past President, or both of them. As students, we are facing the prospects of high unemployment and a weakened United States to greet us upon our graduation. These surely are among our top concerns yet this blog was born of another frustration – the frustration we feel when ‘young people’ are grouped into a single political category, ideology or group. We did not all vote for Obama, we are not all consumerist, we are not all selfish, we do not define ourselves by the clothes we buy, we did not all grow up playing video games, we are all not in favor of gay marriage, and we aren’t wholly conservative or liberal, and unlike generations before us, we have not found a great social movement to which to join up with...

[FMoran]

An interesting perspective on the upcoming generation by a group of teenagers, liberal and conservative (this author is a Republican) about their generation.

[handy old one]

Not all of America is in the sewer!

[Costumed Vigilante]

We think milk comes from the store, and food comes from Sonic.

Rude awakening on their near horizon. Very rude.

A verbis ad verbera

[Paladin2]

Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss.

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, it's got to be pretty depressing when all you have to look forward to in adulthood is a bayonet charge into massed artillery...oh, wait, wrong generation. This one's looking at $4.00 gasoline.

Yes, I'm mocking, but just a little. Welcome to FR.

[Cherokee Conservative]

I read a few of the other posts and some of the comments on this blog. America is not only in the sewer, it’s doomed. They sound like a bunch of parrots regurgitating the socialist garbage their ivory tower profs brain washed them with. One commenter used a government source to prove that global warming is caused by humans, and proceeded to justify Cap and Tax based on this source. She didn’t see the folly in using “research” provided by the very people who are trying to justify robbing us blind. Humans are a gullible breed. The biggest problem with this generation is their ignorance of history and an inability to think for themselves. (Their grammar also sucks! I could barely read some of the articles and comments)

[FMoran]

You must be reading their liberal writers! I find the conservative ones to be quite capitalist honestly - but blame the grammar on those ivory tower profs none the less.