Why We Don't Care

                Try to get a young person engaged in a foreign policy debate.  No, go ahead.  Try it.  Oh, too busy on the facebook, twitting at their friends and tumbling without even getting up off their chair (words don’t mean what they used to, that’s for sure).

                Try to get a young person to care about social issues.  Abortion or gay marriage.  Economic issues.  Tax cuts or health care.  They haven’t even looked up from their iPhones yet.  Rude, in addition to not caring.  My generation is the most apathetic and shallow generation of all time.

                I was born in 1989, which puts me square in the middle of us Millenials.  Social media started to come into its own as I was entering adolescence (AIM in middle school, myspace in high school, facebook in college).  When I started high school, only a handful of friends had cell phones, for emergencies only, about 73 minutes every 3 months.  By college, every single one of my friends had a phone.  Phones that took pictures, even.  By the end of college, you could go on facebook and check your email from the cellular.  My generation never has to be bored again.

                Not that we ever were, really.  My generation is a generation of kids that were overbooked from age 5 with too many extracurricular activities - to be a well-rounded student to get into a good college to get into a good grad school to have the perfect life.  Stressed with school and play rehearsal and soccer practice and SAT prep.
                In 2008, the economy crashed.  After an expensive war, continued deregulation of the economy over decades (despite overwhelming historical evidence that that NEVER WORKS WHY DO WE DO THAT), the constant desire by all Americans to buy more and more on more and more credit with less actual cash to back it up, and a furthering of bipartisanship of this nation, our economy finally fell under the pressure.  And as statistical evidence has proven time and time again, the Millenial generation has been the one to bear the brunt of this crash.

                And now we’ve graduated college.  We’re working at Starbucks.  We’re living at home.  We have a couple thousand dollars to our name and tens of thousands of dollars to pay off in student loans.  We don’t know what the future will hold.
                But at least there's always another video of a stupid kitten stranded on a zipping zoomba to watch.  A job in your field?  What does that even look like?

    Whatever, I'm over it.  Rob Delaney just tweeted something on twitter and I'm gonna go on a wikipedia rampage, looking for wild trivia facts.  This afternoon just got awesome.