What issues do our generation struggle with?

Over educated, under employed

A general sense of entitlement.

Which generation are you referring to?

Well, for me it’s being a highschooler without any idea what it means when I have a dream about a girl I like.

The exceptionally rude behavior of people driving their cars in heavy traffic, who dart off and on the freeways to get ahead of those who patiently wait their turn.

“Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.” – Charlie Sheen

I’d say that hits the nail on the head.

What to do with the older generation! : D

Being subjected to Jersey Shore and Justin Beiber….We really need to start using them to get information out of terrorists.

@cheebdragon What about Rebecca Black?

Subject / verb agreement is one issue, apparently.

AS @Jeruba asked.. what is “Our generation”?

“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

@Joker94 That’s a problem of every generation since the dawn of mankind! But it means ya like her.

I struggle with online addiction. I beat the odds through high school since we had dial-up and no cell service, but now that I’m out in the world I spend waaaay too much time online and way too little time, say, reading books.
I’m about to hit the road for a month of travel, and I hope that after that time with no computer I won’t want to go back on it.

@sliceswiththings It was done with a touch of self-mockery, even I considered asking it here once before I saw how frequently it was asked >.>

The major problem for the current generation of teens and twentysomethings will be dealing with all the debt and destruction the entitled boomers and their narcissistic parents left behind: infrastructure in shambles, debt obligations, ineffective social services, crappy public transportation, and all kinds of other “little things.”

I agree with YoBob. I see the sense of entitlement as a huge problem. It is one of the things which has caused many of the other problems, such as debt (national as well as personal.) I do not see advertising as a big issue. My teenagers are well aware of the purpose of commercials and advertisements and are not caught up in the “must haves.” The advertisements’ jobs are to make you want something; it is your job to say no.

@bolwerk I somehow doubt the parents of boomers were narcissistic as they lived through the Great Depression and WWII.

@optimisticpessimist: I’m not really concerned about what they lived through. I’m concerned about the mess(es) they left behind. They fleeced and destroyed cities, and played no small role in creating the economic instability that exists today. They aren’t as bad as their offspring, of course, but their offspring might not have been so bad if not for them.

@bolwerk What cities did they fleece and destroy? I am curious because most of the people I know (or have known) from that generation are very frugal and independent. The worse thing I have seen is they spoiled their children (which IMHO started the sense of entitlement that is so prevalent now.)

@optimisticpessimist: between crushing neighborhoods to build housing projects, fleecing urban wealth to pay for infrastructure for suburban subdivisions, and disinvesting in public transit, I’m not sure there’s a major city that existed at a time that they didn’t plunge their members into. Their sense of entitlement is high and continues to be high, too, but again, I don’t think they hold a torch to the boomers who are going to be screwing everyone else for at least another forty years.

@bolwerk Every generation has had to deal with what the previous generation left behind, and it is all to easy for those without the perspective that one gains with age to place emphasis on the problems of the world and (for lack of a better word) blame their forefathers for all of the ills while overlooking (aka. taking for granted) the benefits of the progress of previous generations.

I would argue that this somewhat skewed perspective is healthy and beneficial for without that wonderful combination of youthful exuberance and an innate desire to make it better coupled with the perception of things being in urgent need of fixing most advances in civilization would probably not have occurred. However, while it is true that there are many things in the world that need fixing, It is quite important to note that in the not too distant past what is today considered a minor infection could often prove fatal. In the not too distant past their was no such thing as health insurance, in fact you were darned fortunate if you even had a doctor to visit that was less than a day’s travel away. Further, while it is true that we have poverty and slums, that poverty is quite relative. There was a time in the not too distant past that there was little or no assistance available at all for the impoverished and the prospect of literal starvation was a very real thing.

This is, in part, that sense of entitlement I referred to earlier. It is all to easy to take for granted that for the past several generations we have enjoyed a period of unprecedented prosperity.

@YoBob: they need start blaming fast. I don’t hold “prosperity” against past and older generations, or that they’re living longer and holding onto jobs and estates longer. That they completely, deliberately ignore the problems they create is unacceptable to me – hell, they lie and pretend they don’t exist (debt, climate change, etc.).

@bolwerk I’m glad you feel the need to make the world a better place.

Now, go out there and make your actions count!

Entitlement, laziness , and the blame game….......stop whining and do something…life is everyone’s fault….so lets all get to work…....protest, vote and make ourselves be noticed and if it weren’t for the last gen. there would still be segregation and wife beating. So stand up and get to work !!!