Generation Blind

[mizzou]

Should this be a new generation of thought & ideals from our young men and women? Blind to the truth, blind to reality, blind to analysis. Or is this just the millennials at our best?

Spoon-fed and consumed information, processed without hesitation.

Only heard as a group, with a hollow voice. Meaningless movements with no signs of ending. No one remembers the beginning, but the movement carries on regardless.

We don't question CNN, we don't question Fox News, we don't question authority, we don't even question ourselves. Find the next big movement and get behind it, maybe you will get re-tweeted or have your 1 - second of fame.

Nobody stops to think about what is going on. Nobody wants to consider the repercussions of their actions. "Live in the now!" "You Only Live Once!" "Rebel!"

All this big talk, from drones.

There is a vacuum of young leadership right now, and I'm not surprised. The Millennial generation, which I'm part of, is void of organization. We don't even identify ourselves as people anymore, we are twitter handles and avatars.

 

[IronWing]

Don't be too hard on yourself. The pattern has been well established since the 70s, arguably since the late 60s.

 

[mizzou]

Don't be too hard on yourself. The pattern has been well established since the 70s, arguably since the late 60s.

I suppose you are right...perhaps the stupidity just gets amplified since we can communicate with each other instantaneously.

Could you imagine the 60's with twitter, VINE, and facebook?

 

[Strk]

I'm not really sure what you're going on about. We don't question Fox, CNN or whatever news organization? There's a reason all are continually doing shitty. Except for Fox News, which has their little deluded following, people just don't really bother with the rest of them.

And I think people are less blind now than they ever were. Unfortunately, not everyone takes advantage of all the available information, but let's face it, people lived in bubbles for years. Is crime down in the US? Yeah. Are there less major global conflicts? Yup.

The big difference is that you actually hear about it now.

 

[mizzou]

I'm not really sure what you're going on about.

Flash reactions to events....flash mobs, #hashtags, "going viral". Things that just pop up and fade away.

I feel like there is no room for discussion. As with CNN ...FoxNews, most news agencies now do not have a handle on debating issues with equal weight.

 

[Attic]

We live in an Age of Deception.

I don't think they are blind by choice, people have just been effectively tricked/trapped. Clearly, regardless, blind. But problem is the deceivers IMO. People want to be told what they believe, they do not want to be told the truth, many will oblige this.

 

[nehalem256]

Why is this surprising?

Society for decades has slowly eroded the idea of right and wrong, good and bad, etc. How can you analysis something if you have nothing to measure it against?

So if you have little to no moral system why is it surprising that you would latch on to the cause of the moment. Whatever that cause happens to be.

 

[jackstar7]

This is the endgame of anti-intellectualism.

 

[Moonbeam]

All those world wars really made western intellectualism a big hit. There is only the now and if you don't live in it you will never live at all. Tilt your glass to the last drop or build more nuclear plants so you can be sure to poison all your kids.

 

[yllus]

What are you even going on about? The current generation is the last one you'd accuse of paying attention to CNN and Fox News. Cable news is holding steady at best and there have never been more news sources to compare and contrast information from.

Most people I know (including myself) who care about politics to begin with simply follow a list of organizations and journalists they've come to prefer on Twitter. They can even engage those orgs/people if they have new information or think something is wrong. It's far preferable to 35-second video clips aired on television.

 

[gevorg]

 

[Strk]

What are you even going on about? The current generation is the last one you'd accuse of paying attention to CNN and Fox News. Cable news is holding steady at best and there have never been more news sources to compare and contrast information from.

Most people I know (including myself) who care about politics to begin with simply follow a list of organizations and journalists they've come to prefer on Twitter. They can even engage those orgs/people if they have new information or think something is wrong. It's far preferable to 35-second video clips aired on television.

If I'm not mistaken, the median age for cable news is over retirement age.

 

[Newell Steamer]

You have one side that has no idea what it's talking about - and the other side that talks about things that don't even exist.

Hard to choose, but, I'll take the farthest thing away from cooked up boogiemen.

 

[michal1980]

is this like the 99% lite?

You remember those guys. They accomplished nothing.

 

[Thebobo]

is this like the 99% lite?

You remember those guys. They accomplished nothing.

Who is that? Sounds like a radio sation