What is going on with young adults of today?

Question

Need some excuses or reasons that the young people of America today are not standing up and taking action to get things done in the government system and elections. Why it all seems mainly focused on taxes, health care, and social security. We have to think about how this world is going to be in the future for the younger generations coming not just money issues of today? What about education, energy, global warming, being an american, being united always and not just in crisis (9/11). Something is wrong people, look at all the young people shooting each other then themselves.

Answer 1

i see ur point and i completely agree with you. but the problem with young americans today is that most are caught up in other things. they overlook the future and instead of focusing on both the present and the future they only focus on the present bc they are only thinking about themselves

Answer 2

being part of those younger folks i feel that many of my peers just dont care about the world around them and rather follow what hollywood thinks.  many of my friends just go by wat they hear on the news and believe that it is the total truth.  also, we got reeeeeeeal short attention spans.  if we had a choice between watching football or listening to someone speak out on any political issue, 99% of us would do football.  i try to be aware of the politicals of today so i can offer the knowledge i have to my friends so they have some grasp of whats going on in the world that will be ours to run soon.

Answer 3

they don't really care about America they are much to worried about what that cute boy in 2nd period is thinking or how they are going to steal beer to drink tonight. There is no community at all in today's young adults lives

Answer 4

they are tired of stupidity and beauracracy and been treated as slaves under discrepancy of highly educated, lower education, fat vs slim, tall vs short, dark vs white and then further booged down by nuclear threats, pollution , global warnings etc, increasing oil prices. Belive US has done more destruction in last 5 years than what global warming did in last 50 yrs. Guys of your age in US military cannot stop making weapons and selling them to other nations, what the h**l do you expect from younger genration. If world is going to get destroyed then let it be....today youth wanne enjoy their life because they know its short and dont wanne live like a whinny like you do.

CAN YOU DIG THAT SUCKA?

Answer 5

What is going on is that their self-indulgent 'helicopter parents' did not raise them to deal with the wide range of adult responsibilities.

Answer 6

People have largely always been idiots.

As a member of the current generation of young people, I see that almost everyone around me is an apathetic idiot.

I am a senior in high school with a huge case of intellectual egomania, and it is my opinion that this is just the natural state of people in this stage of life.

People take a long time before they even begin got care about the big picture.  Our ridiculous culture doesn't help.

While convoluted and poorly conveyed, my point is that our generation is the same as yours was, things aren't any different.

Think about it.

What was really important to most in high school?

Same ridiculous idiotic things as now.