We are the future of America...but is that a good thing?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>well, i was volunteering at a nursing home today, and i overheard one resident say to another, "the generation of kids these days and the generations to follow them will be of no contribution to society.."</p>

<p>although i realize that his words are extreme and don't really speak the truth about our generation, what do you think will happen to society as each generation of youth grows up? will we become less responsible of people? less socially conservative?</p>

<p>i've heard similar things from other adults before (like my parents), and also seeing some of the things people my age (plus or minus one or two years) do can really be..despicable, but there's a few bad apples in every bunch, right?</p>

<p>what do you think?</p>

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<p>Oh wow. Speechless.</p>

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<p>We'll eventually mature.</p>

<p>Remember that the youth of previous generations include flappers and hippies.</p>

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<p>^ True. Our parents were all pot-heads (well, from the sounds of it on here, not ALL of our parents). They survived, we will too. I am more worried that our generation will never make it to the time when we rule the world. Now THAT is something to be afraid of.</p>

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We'll eventually mature

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<p>hahah, so we aren't even semi-mature even if some of us are about to graduate hs, and some of us are in the middle of it?</p>

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<p>For generation Y (us) as a whole, we'll eventually be saying the same things about the next two generations. Then we'll become as conservative as our last generation when we get old, and the process continues again. We'll also be ridiculing the next generation's taste of music, even though we were the ones who made Soulja Boy the most popular rapper in terms of downloaded songs (ugh!).</p>

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<p>Liist has hit it on the head. Every generation thinks the generation that comes after it is going to be the end of Western Civilization as we know it. But it always comes out just fine in the end.</p>

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<p>We'll be fine.</p>

<p>As long as we get off CC eventually.</p>

<p>But seriously. As other people have said, the same things are probably said for every generation. The world hasn't completely fallen apart yet...and my guess is we're no better or worse than our parents or grandparents.</p>

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<p>To play the devil's advocate, the generation of the 70's wasn't all hippy-pot-head-crazy-drug-users who just happened to mature.</p>

<p>The majority were your typical conservative family. The "silent majority."</p>

<p>Claiming they were all crazy (yet I love the 60's/70's hippy stereotype) is like claiming that everyone suffered greatly during the great depression.</p>

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<p>I dunno...I think the baby-boomer generation, and the one that preceded it, have done way too much damage. It's gonna take at least three generations to repair it all, maybe more.</p>

<p>Who's up for the challenge?</p>

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<p>this happens to every generation, not just ours. 50s, 60s, 70s, etc. we'll outgrow it and look down on our kids for doing whatever they do.</p>

<p>well. probably..</p>

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<p>It won't matter after the apocalypse.</p>

<p>Thousands</a> Expect Apocalypse in 2012 - AOL News</p>

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<p>Well we'll be dead by then..tell your friends! ...Thanks lil_killer!!</p>

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<p>^^ Lol, ateast I don't have to live to 50...or 40... or even evil 30.</p>

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<p>That is my senior year. I do hope it doesn't happen. I want to at least graduate first!</p>

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<p>
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That is my senior year.

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So what, you're a rising freshman? ...</p>

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<p>@Invoyable
Yeah . . .</p>

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<p>Well, we survived all the <em>other</em> [url=<a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm%5Dapocalypses%5B/url"&gt;http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm]apocalypses[/url&lt;/a&gt;] , so we can survive this one!</p>

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<p>Sara- if you're class of 2012, you'll make it through a semester.</p>

<p>The Mayan 2012 this is supposed to be December 21, months after you'd graduate.</p>

<p>If it is true, I'll never have to enter the real world!</p>

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<p>we are the future...
and
the future is bright!</p>