Cop more toys. Behave in school. Wear popular clothing. Walk in line. Get good grades. Have some beers, but don't do drugs. Get a student job and a car at sixteen. Choose the right education. Vote for the "right ones". Get a big paycheck and ditto house.
If you are - just like me - a lazy, narcissistic, bored brat, born after 1985 with the concentration ability of an ADD'er, you probably recognize some of this "good advice". All of us have been brainwashed to feed our ego, find happiness in materialism, and especially not diverge from the middle of the line. Better hold on to your trousers if you dare and do that. The juicy sweet dream we're shocked out of however, is much more than a soap bubble filled with lies, exploding in our faces, making our eyes tear up. Walk a couple of paragraphs in our shoes and you'll come to see why.
Not only did we get systematically raped by a value system that came to be out of everything but our individuality or free choice, nope, this very same system - solely responsible for all of the western "riches" - doesn't stop at molesting the mind of its own children. It sets out to violate the rest of world along with that, purely to maintain a fairy tale of absurd luxury for an undeserving few.
Our "own" high-strung expectations and demands were forcefully spooned into us, even before we committed our first consumption. But we should be happy with what we can get, accept our own mediocrity, and least of all blame the world and those that came before us.
Not only did we get systematically raped by a value system that came to be out of everything but our individuality or free choice, nope, this very same system - solely responsible for all of the western "riches" - doesn't stop at molesting the mind of its own children. It sets out to violate the rest of world along with that, purely to maintain a fairy tale of absurd luxury for an undeserving few.
Our "own" high-strung expectations and demands were forcefully spooned into us, even before we committed our first consumption. But we should be happy with what we can get, accept our own mediocrity, and least of all blame the world and those that came before us.
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| The motto |
What Oscar van den Boogaard doesn't understand is that, we have already accepted the failures. Not our own, but his and his generation's. We are fully aware of the fact that we are inheriting a world full of trials and tribulations, trials that have been systematically pushed along in our direction. Trials that could prove to be the greatest in the history of mankind. Drastic changes in climate, exponentially growing overpopulation, the "threat" of globalization, impending economic collapse, over-drafting of limited resources, an ever-increasing number of jobs disappearing never to return again, ballooning student loans, and much much more. These are our challenges, and none of us freely chose them.
But the generations before us continue as they were, hardly worried at all. Pretending like our planet isn't about to spit out the human race for good if we go on like this. Putting their finger a little deeper into the cake, while using the other arm to keep us from getting involved.
By now, we've understood the way things work around here. Our forced education and social media opened our eyes. It doesn't matter if we are she, he or nem, black, white, yellow, christian, pastafari, muslim, straight or LGBT, we understand that all we have is each other. Science has shown us that we're all literally children of the stars. That the stuff we "own" can and will disappear at a moments' notice, and that materialism isn't the way to look for happiness. So don't pat yourself on the back, finding happiness in our individuality and human connections is something that we had to teach ourselves.
Go ahead though. Label us. Provoke us. Mortgage our future to safeguard your own lazy days. We can take it all. We're the love generation. Our shoulders bear the responsibility of successfully guiding the human race towards the next step in our evolution, and we know it. Failure is not an option. This is the reason for our apparent apathy and boredom. Until the shortsighted generations before us realize that they fucked up badly and step aside, all we can do is wait. So forgive us for partying while we still can, exactly like you taught us to: recklessly self-destructive and with a blind eye turned to any and all consequences.
And finally this, a quote by a Greek twenty-something in crisis, 2500 years ago: "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in".
But the generations before us continue as they were, hardly worried at all. Pretending like our planet isn't about to spit out the human race for good if we go on like this. Putting their finger a little deeper into the cake, while using the other arm to keep us from getting involved.
By now, we've understood the way things work around here. Our forced education and social media opened our eyes. It doesn't matter if we are she, he or nem, black, white, yellow, christian, pastafari, muslim, straight or LGBT, we understand that all we have is each other. Science has shown us that we're all literally children of the stars. That the stuff we "own" can and will disappear at a moments' notice, and that materialism isn't the way to look for happiness. So don't pat yourself on the back, finding happiness in our individuality and human connections is something that we had to teach ourselves.
Go ahead though. Label us. Provoke us. Mortgage our future to safeguard your own lazy days. We can take it all. We're the love generation. Our shoulders bear the responsibility of successfully guiding the human race towards the next step in our evolution, and we know it. Failure is not an option. This is the reason for our apparent apathy and boredom. Until the shortsighted generations before us realize that they fucked up badly and step aside, all we can do is wait. So forgive us for partying while we still can, exactly like you taught us to: recklessly self-destructive and with a blind eye turned to any and all consequences.
And finally this, a quote by a Greek twenty-something in crisis, 2500 years ago: "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in".
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