Do you think my generation is headed in the wrong direction?

Question

I'm a 20 year old college student. We, in general, write instructor evaluations in less than 60 seconds, rarely turn in surveys, and are still apathetic politically despite the candancy of Obama, the GWOT, the social security crises, being uninsured, and the failures of the current administration.

Answer 1

Your generation is definately heading in the RIGHT direction.. I believe by the liberal school systems and the brain washing that goes on.. To me this is why this election has gone into the toilet. It seems like the only thing 20 year olds vote for is color and gender and never listen to the real issues that surround us.. Most people at your age don't even know the differences between the parties except the catch phrases laid out by the media..

Answer 2

Overall, today's young people are rallying behind the WRONG principals and ideology.

They join in Obama's chants for "change"... yet have NO IDEA what change HE offers, and WHAT he wants to change FROM.

There is a saying you should heed....   "If you are in your 20s and aren't a LIBERAL... you have no heart.    If you are in your 30s and aren't a CONSERVATIVE... you have no brain."

There is a lot of truth to that.   YOUNG, IDEALISTIC people don't seem to understand why we can't GIVE AWAY all sorts of services, money, etc....   "what about the children" is more about a PARENT'S role, not a government's role.    PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY is the KEY concept young people lack.

Answer 3

Your generation is definately heading in the wrong direction.. I believe by the liberal school systems and the brain washing that goes on.. To me this is why this election has gone into the toilet. It seems like the only thing 20 year olds vote for is color and gender and never listen to the real issues that surround us.. Most people  at your age don't even know the differences between the parties except the catch phrases laid out by the media..

Answer 4

Your generation is burned.  You are hostages, held by your idiotic parents, who intend to turn you over to greedy teachers, who with their administrators and their representatives spawn spin, and they churn burns from this.

After all, bureaucrats are bureaucrats.  They make more and more bureaus and crats for them.

Your generation doesn't care that the fat power deals of 2001 and the interest of 2004 doom your campuses, and that your teachers are the worst of the worst, for not only letting you go out and occasionally pass your illegal educational, food, and housing costs to a churned court case, but also for cooking up bogus wars, from your ignorance, cultured in your schools.

You and your parents and your teachers and your administrators and taxpayers and everyone are now illegally interested in all assets, especially campuses.  When school's out for summer, this year, many are out, FOR-EVER.

Answer 5

Our nations youth have far more possibilities open to them than any generation in memory. If you will forgive an add to your question, perhaps we should ask; 'Has your generation been prepared by our education system to deal with this new world of potential?' Have you been shown 'how-to-make-sense' of it all? Is it even possible for an education system to do so?

Those of us approaching middle age were also told as youth that we were apathetic and not focused on the real problems in the world. Since my generation and yours appear to have been painted with the same brush; Who is holding the brush? In answer, I submit that it is those who are attempting to hold our society and culture to traditions that were adequate to the past but may no longer be relevant to the future. There is a great deal to learn about your past from the traditions of your family, society, and culture - but - those things can only tell you how things used to be, or how an historical crisis was dealt with, not how to deal with the future.

We are in a period of transformation. Globalization, since WWII has been accelerating changes throughout the world. Cultures once insulated from the democratizing affects of technology are increasingly rebelling against the loss of identity associated with the progressive nature of technology.

Perhaps you will find the answers by redefining the questions.

Good Luck.