Dear Generation Y (1978-2000),....?if you wouldn?t do it without a camera taping it,

[Blazer]

Dear Generation Y (1978-2000),

Hi kids, its Generation X writing yet again. I tried to mail you a letter, but you didn't reply, I tried to phone you, but you must be "texting" and not taking calls. Today, I am trying to reach you on your own turf, I am blogging you a message on an Internet board. If this doesn?t work, I guess I?ll have to start a myspace account.

We, Generation X (1965-1977), have been slapped with the label of slackers and non-conformists partly thanks to Kevin Smith movies and partly due to our lack of adventure. You see we grew up post the moon landing and we were still kids when the Soviets fell, the Wall crumbled, and ?We are the World? was released. After school, we still played outside and made relationships by meeting people face to face. We went to date movies without any good James Bond foes, and the understanding that the war in the Middle East will always be in the Middle East so don?t worry about the Middle East. OK, so we weren?t perfect, but we were raised with a level of understanding and respect for others.

You however seem to have little admiration for others or yourself. Not only are you void of respect, you have the peculiar need to broadcast your misdeeds on a cell phone camera, video feed, and always on the internet. You are the proud stewards of Jackass, Girls Gone Wild, You Tube, MTV (void of music), Jerry Springer, Halftime Wardrobe Malfunctions and The Pussycat Dolls. Before you retort, I realize Johnny Knoxville was born in 71, and the producers of many of the afore named media are much older than you. I still blame you as the target demographic.

 

[Blazer]

You have had more information at your hands and more advantages than many of the previous generations could have dreamed of. You have taken that advantage and made pipe bombs, organized school shootings, and created fame for those who get caught in a ?sex tape?. Although I will relinquish some of the blame for the previous paragraph, the fame of Paris Hilton (1981) rests firmly on your shoulders.

You have misused your advantages and broadcasted your sins to the destruction of a sensible moral code. If you want to haze freshmen, haze them like we did, do it mildly and don?t take pictures. If you want to shoot paintguns at one another, shoot them we did, but don?t get in your car and shoot innocent harmless strangers and definitely don?t videotape yourself. If you want to hang out your moving car, spraypaint walls, cause general public damage, and create social disturbance?. go ahead. We did it, the boomers did it but keep it to a minimum and do it to enjoy being illicit and ?fight the man? don?t just do it so you have something to download on the net to your myspace buddies. I?ll save myspace for another letter.

In closing, what I am trying to say is you are not original. You are merely discovering what we already know. You are doing what generations of kids have done before you, but you are stupid enough to record it with modern technology in order to get notoriety. You are not going to be famous because you record your buddy hitting mailboxes with a baseball bat; you are going to be arrested.

As a moral code, people use to say ?if you wouldn?t do it in public, you shouldn?t do it?. I guess the reverse should be your test: ?if you wouldn?t do it without a camera taping it, you shouldn?t do it?.

 

[Jinxbreaker]

AMEN!!

 

[ImFeklhr]

Wow, genertation X became old men on porches shaking their fists sooner than I thought they would.


Jackass, Girls Gone Wild, You Tube, MTV (void of music), Jerry Springer, Halftime Wardrobe Malfunctions and The Pussycat Dolls.

Alll that stuff is crap; imagined by Generation X or probably even Baby Boomer minds. And round and round we go.