I was just thinking, literally 2 minutes ago.. (well, by the time you read this, it could have been hours, days, months, years, lightyears.. you get it) about the voices of generations. First, let's define the generations, but starting after baby boomers because the majority of them are unable to cause much change in the world anymore ..old age, amirite?
Generation X, which ranges from the beginning of the '60s to the start of the '80s. Basically, this is last generation of "The American Dream", mostly because this generation kind of messed that up. What they also did was fail to look forward enough to see the problems their predecessors were causing. And I don't really blame them, since the world was way different back then. Think about the '70s and '80s, or at least what you know of from movies and stories. These were the ones who basically had it easy since the world had just finished killing each other. Also, there were actually jobs available after school, or hell, if you didn't want to go to school, or maybe just get one degree, you could still find work, (I know, what a time to be alive!). Harsh, maybe, but this blog is for my honest opinion. There was the cold war, and I probably wouldn't be typing this right now had something come from it. But most of this generation was too young to affect change in that situation, so as thankful as I am, it doesn't really help their cause. Man am I babbling on a tangent, yes. Please keep reading, I'll make my point soon.
Anyway, you're probably asking what problems did they fail to see (or maybe help cause)? Mostly the big ones, like the housing crash in the US and climate change, worldwide. But how could they have time to worry about these problems when they were all raking in SO MUCH MONEY. Yeah, if humans are one thing, it's greedy. Luckily not all generations are equal. Don't get me wrong, our predecessor generations also did a lot of good for the world and us younglings to come, but this blog wouldn't be about what I want it to be about if I discussed those things, so, sorry Gen X'ers.
Next we have my wonderful generation, the Y's. I'm sitting at the tail end but we range from '75 to '95. Interesting how we overlap, that's probably a little confusing for you inbetweeners (maybe my source website is garbage, meh, I'm going to keep going anyway).
So what I was thinking about was or is our generation's voice? Sure celebrities say some inspirational shit but we all know they are motivated by greed and fame (okay, maybe not all, I'm sure there are some exceptions, well I'm not sure but it's at least a maybe).
Focus Jay, jeeze..
What my thought was, is that we really don't have one voice. Our generation is the first to use the internet, and I mean, truly use the internet, and yeah, there's a lot of garbage and bad shit on the internet, but there is also people. People speaking out, discussing important things and driving change. This tool (the internet, if you're a little slow catching on) has allowed all of us to have a voice, to be the voices of our generation, and the voices of generations to come. The new generation (Gen Z) just closed out, and they are the ones who are influenced more by the internet, more by us than anything else. We have the power to spread ideas, influence decisions and fight for what's right unlike ever before. We just need to find the motivation to do it in our shitty ass economy.
P.S., wait, can you use P.S. on anything or is it just for letters? That's right, jsaltblog asking the big questions....
Well, I'll just call this little section part of the blog not completely relevant but somewhat related;
Whoever named the generations was pretty stupid. 2015 just ended and they called it the last letter in our alphabet. What comes after Z? Generation XXVII? (That's 27 in Roman Numerals). That's just a mouthful, we could just call it Generation 27 but it just looks stupid. I just read some dumbass wants them to be called Generation Alpha.. YUP that's good! Just start the alphabet over in Greek.. you monkey. I mean, I guess it's somewhat logical... I'm going to stop now.
P.S.S
Apparently Generation Z is also called iGen... ugh, soon they'll be calling people that shit. "Yeah, hi, nice to meet you, I'm iJay." "Sorry, did you say AJ?" "No, f***ing iJay".
I'm shaking my head viciously and should really just publish this and stop typing. Okay, bye.
Generation X, which ranges from the beginning of the '60s to the start of the '80s. Basically, this is last generation of "The American Dream", mostly because this generation kind of messed that up. What they also did was fail to look forward enough to see the problems their predecessors were causing. And I don't really blame them, since the world was way different back then. Think about the '70s and '80s, or at least what you know of from movies and stories. These were the ones who basically had it easy since the world had just finished killing each other. Also, there were actually jobs available after school, or hell, if you didn't want to go to school, or maybe just get one degree, you could still find work, (I know, what a time to be alive!). Harsh, maybe, but this blog is for my honest opinion. There was the cold war, and I probably wouldn't be typing this right now had something come from it. But most of this generation was too young to affect change in that situation, so as thankful as I am, it doesn't really help their cause. Man am I babbling on a tangent, yes. Please keep reading, I'll make my point soon.
Anyway, you're probably asking what problems did they fail to see (or maybe help cause)? Mostly the big ones, like the housing crash in the US and climate change, worldwide. But how could they have time to worry about these problems when they were all raking in SO MUCH MONEY. Yeah, if humans are one thing, it's greedy. Luckily not all generations are equal. Don't get me wrong, our predecessor generations also did a lot of good for the world and us younglings to come, but this blog wouldn't be about what I want it to be about if I discussed those things, so, sorry Gen X'ers.
Next we have my wonderful generation, the Y's. I'm sitting at the tail end but we range from '75 to '95. Interesting how we overlap, that's probably a little confusing for you inbetweeners (maybe my source website is garbage, meh, I'm going to keep going anyway).
So what I was thinking about was or is our generation's voice? Sure celebrities say some inspirational shit but we all know they are motivated by greed and fame (okay, maybe not all, I'm sure there are some exceptions, well I'm not sure but it's at least a maybe).
Focus Jay, jeeze..
What my thought was, is that we really don't have one voice. Our generation is the first to use the internet, and I mean, truly use the internet, and yeah, there's a lot of garbage and bad shit on the internet, but there is also people. People speaking out, discussing important things and driving change. This tool (the internet, if you're a little slow catching on) has allowed all of us to have a voice, to be the voices of our generation, and the voices of generations to come. The new generation (Gen Z) just closed out, and they are the ones who are influenced more by the internet, more by us than anything else. We have the power to spread ideas, influence decisions and fight for what's right unlike ever before. We just need to find the motivation to do it in our shitty ass economy.
P.S., wait, can you use P.S. on anything or is it just for letters? That's right, jsaltblog asking the big questions....
Well, I'll just call this little section part of the blog not completely relevant but somewhat related;
Whoever named the generations was pretty stupid. 2015 just ended and they called it the last letter in our alphabet. What comes after Z? Generation XXVII? (That's 27 in Roman Numerals). That's just a mouthful, we could just call it Generation 27 but it just looks stupid. I just read some dumbass wants them to be called Generation Alpha.. YUP that's good! Just start the alphabet over in Greek.. you monkey. I mean, I guess it's somewhat logical... I'm going to stop now.
P.S.S
Apparently Generation Z is also called iGen... ugh, soon they'll be calling people that shit. "Yeah, hi, nice to meet you, I'm iJay." "Sorry, did you say AJ?" "No, f***ing iJay".
I'm shaking my head viciously and should really just publish this and stop typing. Okay, bye.
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