Debbie Mack ,"The Quiet Generation".
Generation Q needs to stand up and fight for change or they will have nothing left to be optimistic about. The world that surrounds Generation Q is both violent and unforgiving so it may be a matter of emotional & physical survival that they stay optimistic. It could also be seen as ignorance? I'm sure you remember the old adage, "Ignorance is bliss"? Unfortunately, that adage is an impossibility...
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
I think everyone is responsible for taking care of our country. Not only our 2o something, college student, 60's hippie type. All of us need to stand up together and take back our government. After all, WE THE PEOPLE of the United States of America is us and we need to get it together and fight against this fascist regime we have in the Bush administration.
In a NY Times op-ed, Thomas L. Friedman claims he is “both baffled and impressed” by the latest generation of college students. They are “so much more optimistic and idealistic than they should be,” yet “so much less radical and politically engaged than they need to be.”
He calls them Generation Q, because they so quietly pursue idealism, when they should be mad as hell about the budget deficit, shortfalls in the Social Security fund and environmental problems they’re inheriting.
Friedman writes: “Generation Q would be doing itself a favor, and America a favor, if it demanded from every candidate who comes on campus answers to three questions: What is your plan for mitigating climate change? What is your plan for reforming Social Security? What is your plan for dealing with the deficit–so we all won’t be working for China in 20 years?
“America needs a jolt of the idealism, activism and outrage (it must be in there) of Generation Q. That’s what twentysomethings are for–to light a fire under the country.”
Maybe so–but, when you come down to it, shouldn’t we all be asking these questions, no matter what our age? And I don’t think the young have a monopoly on idealism, activism or outrage.
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