Help
So, I'm doing some extended writing, not particularly sure in what format yet, about our generation. It's somewhat difficult to explain because I don't really have a center for it yet - but it plays a lot off of the idea of "today's youth" feeling entitled to a certain cynicism which I'm not sure belongs to them. I find people our age to be extremely jaded and embittered considering the moderately pleasant, suburban lives many of them lead. I'm not excluding myself from this (quite the contrary), but I am trying to discover the root of it. I feel as though a lot of it stems from a sense of failure left over from the so-called love generation, paired with a simultaneous desire to imitate their lifestyle. I may be speaking about a specific demographic here, but all I know is that I stood in the audience at Bonnaroo...and when Conor Oberst sang "We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain," the crowd erupted. It depressed me, and it depressed me even further to find that I myself was smiling out of pure identification with that concept. What is the pain? Is it merely the same coming-of-age bullshit everyone goes through? Even if it is, our goal in response to it has changed. Where the hippies wanted everyone to fuck and smoke and love, we just want to numb. Numb numbs to numb numb. We don't care about a state of repair, just reaching an agreeable nothing.
These are generalizations...but there are often reasons for the creation of generalizations.
What I ask is that if anyone has any kind of input on this idea, email your thoughts to me: realizewhatyouare@yahoo.com. I'm not writing this based purely on my own ideas, so dispute me if you want, agree if you want, just give me some things to throw around. Some ideas I'm working with right now in terms of detail are our drugs-style-music-politics-battles-gatherings-sex, etc. reflect upon us. What they say. Where they come from. Tell me what you think. Could be fun. Thanks.