Generation Next Website: In Our Own Words
GENERATION NEXT: IN OUR OWN WORDS |
Lazy and apathetic. We know that is what others say about us. We see and hear it in the media and how tthe media and popular stereotypes describe us. We are members of the generation known as Generation Next. Much has been said about us. We are the subject of special reports, news articles, and even scholarly work.Some of it resonates with truths in us; a lot does not. This website is about us and by us. We live in a unique historical period: war, globalization, terror, new forms of inequality, dramatic changes in communication technologies, scientific and biomedical changes, shifting mores and values about identity, gender, race, family, sexuality, and popular culture. September 11 is the defining historical event of our generation. We were raised on The Simpsons, reality TV, hip hop, and IM'ing. Even though not all of us watchThe Simpsons, listen to hip hop or create our own personal networking pages, the culture and meaning of our lives is alreadyinfinitely marked by them. There is a lot of hype, stereotype and partial truths about who we are, what we think of the world-as-it-is, and why. We are concerned with inequalities and identities in the contemporary world--and want to set the record straight. We offer our writings and stories here to go beyond the top layer of Generation Next hype. Studying ourselves is a way to study the world-as-it-is. Our experiences are steeped in and defined by that world, and in turn, we react and interact with the choices, possibilities, and foreclosures of the the world-as-it-is. READ US AND TELL US WHAT YOU THINK!
READ THE PEW TRUST REPORT ON GENERATION NEXT
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In Our Own Words God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. Tyler Durden, Fight Club (1999)
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