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I hate to agree that I don't believe my generation (I'm 21) will amount to much of anything. We'll keep the status quo in place for the next generation, but aside from that, people just seem so uninterested in things even remotely beyond their small circle of concern that getting people my age interested in ANYTHING beyond a cell phone, a mustang, or a hot gal or guy seems damn near impossible.
What disappoints me most is when I hear someone say something simply brilliant in class, and when I ask them about afterwards, they look at me blankly and say, "Oh, I was just talking, I didn't mean it. I was fucking around." I keep forgetting that intelligence is a bad thing, and I believe that lack of respect for education (both in principle and for the people involved in the field) will cause the next generation to be a complete disaster. Hopefully they'll rebel from their parent's socially induced insanity and all become wonderfully literate and articulate adults. I can always hope.
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