rant

I'm sick and tired of people berating younger generations. Why does a few more years of life seem to give people the right to be rude and condescending? I feel like all, so called adults, or namely professors, assume that just because I'm barely in my twenties, I can't possibly understand any reference to pop culture before 1989. I'm not a child. I listen to the Beatles. I appreciate Woody Allen. And everyone's seen The Lion King. Not to mention, some of my professors were only like 10 years old at the time of their so called aged pop references--it's not even from their generation! The one that gets me every time is our crack addiction to technology. Today, one of my professors got all riled up about letter writing and how its a dying art form. This is true to an extent but I would like to point out that  I still write people letters and I was definitely taught how to address and write a letter, in cursive no less. 

But the problem really is that I don't understand why people of older generations like to blame us for our new "overpowered-by-technology society". I didn't invent the internet. People my age weren't making cell phones and computers. We were still in diapers as is so shrewdly pointed out to me time and time again. Therefore, it's  not entirely our fault-- we were born into a society created by our elders, the same people, incidentally, that treat us as if we lived in a cardboard box. Thanks to them, the new age of technology and consumerism is causing lots of problems for the world. We are looking at some serious shit that needs to be fixed--and guess who gets to fix it? I think maybe all the older and wiser people in the world should stop blaming the twenty somethings for the problems we've inherited and start helping us figure out how to fix them instead.