Subject: Re: 13 Gen'ers<-----the unlucky bunch
From: Andrew Kennis (kennis@math.grin.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 07 1997 - 04:31:32 GMT
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Sasha Stone wrote:
> I think it is an interesting but decidedly whiney generation with nothing
> real to fight against but feels the need to feel tortured anyway simply
> because there is nothing to fight again - whose biggest claim to faim is
> that they aren't the Baby Boomers.
Nothing real to fight against? I beg to differ.
20% of our generation is in poverty. We receive the least amount of
funding from the public sector out of all generations. We'll be lucky if
social security is not sold to Wall Street. Savage inequalities reign
free in every demographic category imaginable. We are children of
divorce. We are the victims of corporate and worker exploitation, as
corporate profits go sky high and workers wages stagnate while consumers
get barraged by the most commercialism oriented state in the world (not
to mention the lack of product safety, as Ralph Nader can attest). Four
companies, Time Warner, Westinghouse, Disney/CAP Cities, and GE own
basically the whole entertainment front (well over 70% of the market).
The environment continues to sour. I understand that Vietnam was bad and
everything, but so is the fact that my generation are predominantly in
poverty, without health insurance, are without job opportunities, are
without educational opportunities ('specially in rural/urban localities),
and are still subjected to an insidiously racist and sexist society.
I think Will would even agree with me on the fact that
undergraduates are facing less and less job opportunities and there are
more and more unemployed PhD holders. Fuck, even the youth in the elite is
taking a hit, when compared to the older elites.
Don't tell me my generation has no problems. Don't tell me we have less
problems. We have more.
Disgust is not apathy.
>
> Oh, poor us. Good thing the stock market didn't crash.
Um, it did, in '89.
> Good thing there aren't Nazis tattooing numbers on our arms.
Um, Nazis are still alive and well. To believe they aren't, is naive.
> Good thing we aren't fighting for our right to vote anymore.
You're right, we aren't. We have the lowest turnout rate among all
industrialized Democracies in the whole world. We also have the most
cumbersome registration procedures, only have two viable choices in most
elections, have long ass lines during elections, have elections during
the middle of the week, and a host of other pathetic vote problems this
country seems not to care about.
> Good thing we aren't being whipped my our masters because we looked at
> a white woman.
>
Yes, it's a wonderful thing that hords of African Americans are subjected
to impoverished third world like conditions and are forced to be slaves
to elitists like you (i.e. service industry with *non*-living-wages) or are
thrown in jail for trying to make a living in what is purported to be a
free society, but really isn't at all.
> Yeah, we have it rough allright. Real fucking rough. We're singing da blues.
>
Sasha, you might not have it rough, but the rest of the struggling youth
of America does. Get out of your hole.
--AK
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