Now that I have narrowed down who I have put my cross hairs on, I will elaborate for your pleasure (as well as the blood that is pumping through my veins). In my opinion, I can only really say that those people about the age of 55 have just disappointed me. There is evidence of it everywhere you turn. Whether we are discussing the current economic state of this country, the religious tension across the world, or the systematic oppression of people. You can always point your finger to those "adults" we have trusted with power. My intention isn't to implicate every single person above the age of 55. I am sure there are some great ones out there but like my good friend Travis said so pointedly: "Our parents generation has been very disappointing" and as much as I want to agree with him; I feel like it goes on further. They have failed us. As I sit here and contemplate the idea that the United States Government bickers back and forth between parties about how to spend our trillion dollar budget, I wonder why the heck did we even elect these people? With a house representative from my own state coming out and proving that he needs to attend 8th grade civics (Yes Eric Cantor you are a moron) . I wonder why there is so much pressure on us? As a 20 year old's and a college students we end up paying for their lack of compromise and understanding. We of course elect these politicians knowing well they don't really care about what their constituents need, but we have to vote for the lesser of two evils in the hopes they will do something positive. Clearly we were mistaken. The generation of world "leaders" seem to have regressed us in every sense. We all have a boss who doesn't listen to our suggestions, it gets to the point where we don't even feel like it is necessary to speak up anymore. Forget our education, forget our energy, forget our ambition because at the end of the day their experience outweighs us all. Makes sense doesn't it?
So we end up paying for their mistakes. For instance Greece, where they decided that sitting around eating souvlaki was much more important than advancing their society. I mean it makes sense, Greece peaked after Socrates. It was all down hill from there. I am positive no 18 year old Greek said "hey, why don't we just sit around and eat olives all day?" although that same 18 year old not knowing any better thought it was awesome and agreed to it. I am also pretty sure that the senseless deaths of Israelis and Palestinians weren't thought out and planned by the hands that executed them. Nope, the youth only suffer while the adults seek personal power and wealth. Of course we are taught it is for the good of us all, but really what good is it doing? It most certainly wasn't the hordes of Egyptian youth (mainly female) who protested peacefully and forced a tyrant to retreat to some foreign resort that initially agreed to him being in power for 30 years while he systematically destroyed Egypt's middle class and eliminated the working class. Actually those are all those 50 and 60 year old's who could have had the energy to demand changes, faults. They instead picked the leisure of a hookah bar at night or to flee their homeland all together and go teach Saudi and Kuwaiti brats.
If you watch the news you see a lot of pundits on T.V. telling you what to do, and how to do it. They want to explain to you that their point of view is correct and having a different one means you are a terrorist. Or if not a terrorist, a socialist, an anarchist, a hippie, or on drugs. A lot of times these same adults have sidekicks that are closer to our age. The hope is we can relate to the Ivy League pretty person regurgitating what Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh said before we woke up. There is plenty good in this world, but unfortunately there is even more bad. The only way to fix it is to listen to Keith Olbermann make fun of an out of context soundbite from a tea partyer or Glenn Beck draw some sort of pie chart on a chalk board. I guess Hannity has a stronghold on all of the overhead projectors? At the end of the day it is their way, or no way.
They are right, they are going to lead us on the right path. They are going to bring us back! My only question is, who the f@ck are you? As a matter of fact, I know a ten year old little girl that has more wisdom in her pinkie than most people I have met over 55. Her name is Leena Sayed and she is happy to consult you. As Jeff Foxworthy has shown most of America these same men aren't as smart as a 5th grader. Now we all have parents, and some of us have very successful parents. Some of our parents are less successful. That is the nature of the world, but at the end of the day our parents want us to have a better life than them. So they do everything in their power to advise us on how to do that. It is a noble gesture of theirs to look out for us that way. I would argue though that once we get to about 24 years old, their advice is null and void. I mean I am going by the age in which we are coming on to a quarter of a century. For some of us, we have to grow up faster, and others still haven't grown up. At the end of the day though, you can never really explain your mothers love. It can't be measured, but they still judge the hell out of you. They still measure you against other people from the neighborhood/ book club/ or gym's kid. Your father's love can be measured, he is always in some sort of competition in his mind. A lot of times we are fed the idea of unconditional love, well that isn't true.
Parents use you as a measuring stick for their own selfishness. This is a new phenomenon for society. When the baby boomers did so well post WWII they created our parents who have been spoon fed all their lives. Not their fault, but they could never be the baby boomers. Thank god they aren't either, because baby boomers are out of touch. Side Note: All baby boomers should report to some community in a warm place, where we can communicate with them via Skype and Gchat and stay off the roads and normal human being stuff. Seriously just go away and don't worry about it. It would create jobs for people who like old people, and it would mean I am not slamming my breaks on I-95 behind the Crown Victoria going 40 miles per hour. I don't want to hurt feelings but I imagine it is a bit too late. The mistakes our parents made are used as red flags and scare tactics to get us to avoid using our gut. They aren't necessary lessons learned but more means to persuade us to comply. If the United States were the Kansas Jayhawks and kept failing to make the final four at the hands of mid majors like...South Korea which we will call VCU or Northern Iowa. The leader would be fired. Yes that is Obama, Pelosi, and Boehner who would be gone (Bill Self sucks). It is time to look at our elders in the face and say "hang it up". All of them seem to think they are Brett Favre, and you see what happened to the Vikings. It is time for the 20 and 30 year old's to take a grasp over government and private business. It is time for us to shake things up and demand what we deserve.
Flat out, they had their chance and they failed. They were masked by ideals, and pretty language but all they have done is brought us down. I am sick of taking advice from failures. Their sense of accomplishment is inflated and then transferred in the form or graduate degrees, extra-curricular activities, and hectic schedules for us. We have worked our asses off so that we can be "qualified" for jobs held by those who are lesser versions of us. We are smarter than them, we are more energetic, and we are more savvy. We can't sit back anymore and let our fate be dictated by silly law makers and bad business men. Alright that is enough for now, if you took offense to any of this, I really don't care. It is my opinion and you can't say a damn thing about it....
