Recently I've been speaking with the Galactic Peace Tour Representative from the Street, The Raven, and have been asking him about what it's like to be in your twenties in a world that's going down the toilet. (The questions were not loaded like that when I was talking with him.)
It's not a huge surprise but it's very discouraging to see the demoralization not only in the Raven but in most people he knows. He attributes this in large part to the absence of realistic job paths for that generation. I believe there's more and I'm interested to hear more from him on the matter but job availability was the first thought.
Another area of demoralization is with regard to voting. They will do it but they have no belief it will accomplish anything. I can't fault him on that as I don't believe there's been a politician worth his weight in tar and feathers since FDR. And Eleanor was the best First Lady too.
Some say the last generation was lost to drugs but it appears this one will be lost to apathy, not on the part of the kids but by you. You who voted against the school levies, you who sent their jobs overseas, you who has been dosing them with Ritalin since they were babies, etc, etc.
Have you ever heard people whine so hard as much as when a school asks to pass a tax levy. These things cost peanuts but people scream like the King has come to claim his right to consummate a newlywed's marriage. What better education than the one that comes from the lowest bidder.
Don't look for activism from these kids. It's not that they don't care but there is a prevailing feeling of powerlessness to make change. Their first thoughts are toward music, festivals, dance, and living life as much as they can, presumably before it disintegrates altogether. This is in part the thinking that comes from being under thirty in which you can live wild because you'll die when you're thirty anyway but it seems more than that.
The talking will continue as there's much more to discover.
It's not a huge surprise but it's very discouraging to see the demoralization not only in the Raven but in most people he knows. He attributes this in large part to the absence of realistic job paths for that generation. I believe there's more and I'm interested to hear more from him on the matter but job availability was the first thought.
Another area of demoralization is with regard to voting. They will do it but they have no belief it will accomplish anything. I can't fault him on that as I don't believe there's been a politician worth his weight in tar and feathers since FDR. And Eleanor was the best First Lady too.
Some say the last generation was lost to drugs but it appears this one will be lost to apathy, not on the part of the kids but by you. You who voted against the school levies, you who sent their jobs overseas, you who has been dosing them with Ritalin since they were babies, etc, etc.
Have you ever heard people whine so hard as much as when a school asks to pass a tax levy. These things cost peanuts but people scream like the King has come to claim his right to consummate a newlywed's marriage. What better education than the one that comes from the lowest bidder.
Don't look for activism from these kids. It's not that they don't care but there is a prevailing feeling of powerlessness to make change. Their first thoughts are toward music, festivals, dance, and living life as much as they can, presumably before it disintegrates altogether. This is in part the thinking that comes from being under thirty in which you can live wild because you'll die when you're thirty anyway but it seems more than that.
The talking will continue as there's much more to discover.
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