I'm 25 and that video creeps me the ?!#* out. It has the feel of a bunch of brainwashed morons blindly following something they don't understand. The "better educated" comment is really unnerving. Education is nothing without real experience. Books aren't the real world. Wasn't communism about making everything better for everyone?
I'm going to have to start another one of those "Is this what BadWeb has become?" threads. A bunch of old, tired, frustrated folks sitting around griping about the future and "the kids today".
"These damn kids today with their cell phones! In my day we had one rotary dial phone in the house and if you wanted to make a call outside the house you had to have a dime in your pocket. A dime it cost you!"
"These kids today care about the environment! In my day we dumped toxic sludge right into the river and nobody cared. Caring about the environment is socialism. Who needs it?"
"Kids today are better educated. What a waste of time and money! In my day we were all as dumb and ignorant as a bucket of hammers. Besides, the kids today don't read the right kind of books anyway."
"Kids today have hope for a better future and want to work to make it happen. Well, all I can say is quit your damn hoping! America was at it's best in 1840. It's been downhill ever since thanks to the damn progressives. The kids today are just going to make America worse."
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" Plato.
There will always be some of that "you kids git off my lawn" by the older generation. That is natural and is repeated by every generation.
Most of the glitz kids in the video mean well and are fired up with passion. That is also natural and is repeated by every generation.
What some in that video are expecting is change and accomplishment for free. The desire might be natural but it ain't gonna happen without working hard for a real education followed by working hard working. And lots of it. A lot of the spuds don't look like they are up for that when they have been led to believe that it will be given to them.
That is not natural and not repeatable.
The good news is that most of the Mii/Wii people will grow up and be OK.
Follow the auto sub culture, you will see that each generation has its hooligans that rebel against the man... Show me one generation that embraced the man, his ideology, his agenda....and I will show you that commercial.
the director and producers of that cr@p are my age, and I am betting that the kids were paid to be in it, or promised other roles in the televison arena. Welcome to the American Idol / Wii generation.
Im sure it will all end up fine... but I am still retiring overseas.
just showed the We generation video to my nephew (born 2000) so hes a contemporary of this ilk.... "What a crock a cr@p that is, if thats how they think, I am gonna clean em up good. Maybe they should get some ideas before they open their mouths."
Liberal namby pamby kyoum by ya is gonna loose to drive, intelligence, independence every time. Y'all were warned. Hes a pretty good shot with the .22 as well.
