self interest

I was the Naomi Tutu lecture last monday night and listening to the questions at the end (I hate people who ask questions by the way) I realized something that was really interesting yet not suprising.  One of the questions was a student asking about justice, only they used the definition of revenge to define justice.  I was particularly annoyed by this question due to the ignorance it was based on but it made me realize the mindset the younger generation in this country is based on.  There is a lot less forgive and forget and a lot more eye for an eye.  It is not the best way to go in an age with more destructive weapons available easier to the public.  This led me to thinking of gangs, and these have also become more prominent with the turn of the century.  This is a perfect example of the eye for an eye mentality, and like i said earlier with the new technology that is becoming available this is not the direction the country needs to be headed.

Another College Weekend

Another college weekend.  Another round of parties.  And yet another group of facebook pictures depicting underage drunks with alcohol in hand.  If there is one glaring difference between the current working class generation and their children is common sense and a sense of invincibility.  Despite all the warnings out there that future employers are looking back at facebook for a more in depth look at who they are hiring, college students seem to be ignoring this in totality.  I simply cannot fathom the tradeoff between looking popular (or stupid) from the pictures in return for the possibility of threatening a future job possibility.  Employers like this have an unlimited access to anything on facebook, and, social networks such as facebook keep records of everything that has been posted for up to 10 years even after it has been deleted.  This certainly paints our generation in a bad light, if not a complete farce that will doom the future of this country.  Now my opinion may be a bit strong, but it simply astonishes me that people will risk their future for something incredibly egotistical as popularity.  It speaks to a complete lack of common sense, one that the working class generation would not been insensible enough to undertake.  

Patience

It doesn't take much to look around and notice that a glaring difference between the amount of patience that our parents generation had, and the amount of patience the majority of the younger generation has right now.  It is quite astonishing how low the level is, especially when patience can be a very important trait for a lot of jobs.  Even looking outside of jobs, it is very evident.  One of my longtime high school buddies separated his shoulder twice over the previous summer, and wanted to skip rehab and physical therapy and just take HGH to recover.  Luckily for him, his doctor told him that a natural recovery would be best as there would  no long term side effects.  The point remains though, that our generation is losing patience quickly and is becoming more and more apt to take the quick short term solution instead of the safer one.  I think this can also be attributed to the current recession, as up and coming college graduates tried to take out loans to buy a big house by banking on money they thought they would make.  It is this lack of patience that could end up making an awful impact on the future of the current youthful generation.