As if anticipating tonight's College Dems meeting, Thomas Friedman has a bit to say regarding our very own "Generation Q":
Remember: 7:00pm, 1641 Humanities.
It’s for all these reasons that I’ve been calling them “Generation Q” — the Quiet Americans, in the best sense of that term, quietly pursuing their idealism, at home and abroad.Regardless of anyone's views of Friedman's politics, he makes a salient point. He has noticed that, despite student concern over issues that ought to bother us – everything from global warming to the current budget deficits – we as a generation have not "organized in a way that will force politicians to pay attention rather than just patronize [us]." It is through direct participation and debate, not Facebook group invitations, that we may accomplish the ideals that we wish to achieve. The first step in this process is the act of reaching out to like-minded individuals, and discussing our aims and ambitions. That is the point of tonight.
But Generation Q may be too quiet, too online, for its own good, and for the country’s own good. When I think of the huge budget deficit, Social Security deficit and ecological deficit that our generation is leaving this generation, if they are not spitting mad, well, then they’re just not paying attention. And we’ll just keep piling it on them.
There is a good chance that members of Generation Q will spend their entire adult lives digging out from the deficits that we — the “Greediest Generation,” epitomized by George W. Bush — are leaving them.
Remember: 7:00pm, 1641 Humanities.
1 Comments:
I definetly agree. Bitching is not enough. This ties in very well with Oliver's post about how no one from neither the Cardinal nor the Herald editorial boards showed up to help out with the ASM Neighborhood Watch program, even after complaining that nothing is being done about campus safety.
If we are going to beg for change, we have to be willing to help it come to pass.
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