Why are so many among us finding America doesn't deliver enough of everything on demand? Is the nest generation totally ignorant of the history of this great nation?
What is the problem here? Is it a total lack of history or is it so many among us, of all ages are just to concerned with things that have latterly no real meaning that effect our lives in real time. What occurred in your life that has made you what you are? The money you make, your job, your friends or is it that if the relevant subject of the minute isn't being discussed by you on their smartphone, you don't exist?
Can existence be dumbed down to smartphone apps? dah! Of course!
Truly the ''Me To'' generation is alive and not so well. So much importance is applied to being seen and heard among piers. Creditability is measured by the number of ''notifications'' you have on twitter or how may followers you have even though you have to know it just a contest of numbers.
You do know this, right?
Does it really matter how important history is to our well being? Yeah it does. A person can not know who they are if they don't know where they came from and what history that occurred to allow them to claim their position in the larger society.
What is the problem here? Is it a total lack of history or is it so many among us, of all ages are just to concerned with things that have latterly no real meaning that effect our lives in real time. What occurred in your life that has made you what you are? The money you make, your job, your friends or is it that if the relevant subject of the minute isn't being discussed by you on their smartphone, you don't exist?
Can existence be dumbed down to smartphone apps? dah! Of course!
Truly the ''Me To'' generation is alive and not so well. So much importance is applied to being seen and heard among piers. Creditability is measured by the number of ''notifications'' you have on twitter or how may followers you have even though you have to know it just a contest of numbers.
You do know this, right?
Does it really matter how important history is to our well being? Yeah it does. A person can not know who they are if they don't know where they came from and what history that occurred to allow them to claim their position in the larger society.
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| Ignorance of history will destroy the future. |
The Blind Generation --
This article was written by college student, Alyssa Ahlgren, who is in grad school for her MBA. It's a short article, but definitely worth a read. (A wonderful perspective and refreshing reality check)
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! B-L-I-N-D
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my news-feed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism.
I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their Mac Book's, ordering food they get in an instant; seeing cars go by outside and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought..
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty-one times (31)! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards..
Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied and ungrateful. Our lack of appreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation; "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.” Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth.
Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished.
Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why?
The answer is this: my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the Great Depression or Great Recession; we didn’t live through two world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, color TV, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
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