Generation X

GRAEME LAWSON

I was watching a music video today by a very politically inclined band, and I came to a startling conclusion about the overall standpoint of my generation. I have noticed that we are very much the “yes generation.”

 

To explain this, I will have to explain the history of the generation that precedes my own, known as “generation X.” This was a generation of profound social reform in terms of so many different aspects of society.

 

Generation X managed to do away with the social oppression of black people and their amazing leaps on a technological level which in turn led to a more stable world economy.

 

Now I coined the term “Generation Yes” to talk of my own generation because the word yes is the one my generation uses when we are told to accept something. We do what we are told. We are merely content to sit on the laurels of our elders and that is what we are taught to do.

 

Don’t complain or change anything because we have built you the perfect system — all of this in spite of the repetition in history that we see when just one generation becomes stagnant like ours. Millions of Jews were killed because Hitler had a population of people that were willing to listen to anything, and that is what is being slowly bred today. We sit back and watch the world turn on the rusted and broken cogs that somehow manage to keep on working. Our own image that will be jotted down in books form now till the end of time is one of a generation that’s imply sat down and took what we were told at face value.

 

The world does not get any better if we simply sit by and watch some of the outdated practices of the time before us do their work. The way to making society better is to change, but because of the way we are now taught, change is not something that is accepted.