There are so many problems in this world today... global warming, racism, poverty, wars in the east etc.etc. In the hippy and punk era people stood up and gave it their best shot to fight the problems of their time... ..but it just feels to me now that the teen generation today is the pasifist generation, no body seems to want to protest and do somehting about it, alll they care about is clothes drugs n sex! when i spark up a conversation people just say 'oh its up the to goverment' fair enough, that is true to an extent but it isnt just up to the governement soely, it is also up to every living individual part of this race. This rant is more UK directed, i dunno whats going on inthe USA.
In the UK it seems to have been bred into peoples heads through schools and media that any protest is bad, that the only things worth fighting for are fashions, parties and possessions. Add to that the CJB (sorry CJA), the continual celebration of pathetic incidents in role-models lives (both good and bad), the constant preaching of UK politicians to middle class, middle aged voters against younger generations, the constant blame of any problem on younger generations, the continual apathetic methodology of politics and you get a net result of a population that just couldn't care anymore, they just want to live quietly and not be bothered anymore. Every single politician I have met in person over the past 10 years has dodged every question. Not so much "not answered" tough questions, but given a circumvening response, or even a response to a different question. One politician even just walked out of a student question and answer session because a question he was asked was not pre-written. Most younger people in the UK have realised this and seeing as none of their questions are answered, seeing as the citizens of the UK do not have the right to ask questions nor to gather in protest it is no surprise that the general population has become apathetic. The process of tyranny is not always sudden coups, it takes place subtley, surreptitiously invading the county and citizens. This process started with Thatcher (maybe before) the division of the country between haves and have nots, strikers and consumers, pro-euro vs anti-euro, council estate residents and private home owners, hoodies vs shopkeepers, immigrants against non-immigrants, protestants against catholics, ravers against landowners. The distractions of enemification, the creation of the CJB, the distraction of the Poll-Tax, de-unification, de-nationalisation, the war on terror; it all goes on building brick upon brick upon brick of tyranny subtley enforced, but enforced nonetheless.
Well, what Tipo Sensuale said about the UK sounds a lot like the US, except here it began with Reagan. Since Reagan and Thatcher were cut out of the same cloth, that's not surprising.
Wow some good posts guys! it is very true and very frustrating how this generation has become because i am one of the 'get up and do' people, and it feels like im an island in a sea of laziness.... do you reckon this will change or, how can we change it?
I hope this generation is a pacifist (for peace) generation. About changing it from an apathetic generation, you need to set an example. Be interested, spread the truth, read newspapers, talk to your friends about current events. I'm not asking you to be a bore, but to be willing to let your peers see that awareness of what is going on is part of being a normal person.
Every generation has these issues. It's the select few that go out and do something. Then others will follow. I bet that if you talked someone who came out of the 60's they would agree with me when I say that they had apathetic people who would rather sit around and do nothing. People like to follow overall, not lead. My suggestion? Get offline and go out and do something. Then come back and use the internet as a tool to spread the word. You will find that once people have something to grasp hold of, they will go with it.
Maybe set an example by writing newspapers - work hard, get into the journalism business, get into the mainstream press, and project your subtext in everything you write.
