foxdawg2000
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I believe I began to see it more after I was out of college.. Just sit on a shuttle bus or in a college cafeteria , dorm etc. and listen to how self absorbed young adults are nowadays.. They're more worried about the next frat party or worried about cramming for an exam than their communities' futures.. Who in college is actually motivated by positively affecting our country's future and leading the next wave of great minds? Most majors that are geared toward affecting young minds are low paying at entry level (teachers, social workers, community involvement, etc) and prove to be the least encouraging in motivating college students to engage in (coincidence?) Dissent, as stated in the article above, in modern day minds is "inconvenient" and people want instant gratification.. Do you think MLK expected to change the injustices of Jim Crow overnight? Can you imagine even a small scale boycott of that nature today? How many people wouldn't even miss their fav TV show to do so? It is sad but I feel with the way corporate greed has grown and manipulated our way of life that it will eventually come to a head. As the lower class starts to grow and mix with middle class America I can see folks eventually getting fed up but we're not even close yet.Originally Posted by GG23
Just out of curiosity but what are we (young people) suppose to be rebelling for? Most of us are content with our lives. Even if young Americans woke up tomorrow and realized how the system was %**+$$@ us, I still don't think we would care. Most of our lives are good, good enough to not care.
I'm all for rebelling against the rising cost of tuition, but I don't think that alone is enough to rebel? Maybe protest, but not rebel.
That being said, anyone in college want to rebel?
On a political level, in my opinion middle class white America is the one most tricked by the notion that government is bad and needs to stay out of our lives(Tea Party rhetoric).. The reason being is that many of these folks (many of whom I work with) envisioned themselves retiring as their parents did (Upper Middle Class) and comfortable.. When they currently see that there's a good chance it's not going to happen they want to blame gov't (and the black guy in office) because that's the easiest thing to do (convenience) rather than look in the mirror and realize that they're feeding this corporate take over of our political system by voting for individuals with loyalties specifically to BIG BUSINESS..(deregulation, unnecessary tax breaks etc)..
Now that I'm a father I plan on giving my son advice but also encouraging him to push the envelope and not do things only because "someone says so" Think for yourself and don't go to college or choose a major because society's pressure.