Who’s Going To Save Us?

Randomly, a thought popped in my head; what are the 90’s babies known as? I asked that question on Facebook and Twitter and the response I felt that explained it well was “The Lost Generation”. (Thanks Jorge for helping me out with that one.) The 60’s babies are known as “The Civil Rights Generation”. During the 60’s, people were working hard, trying to make a better way of life for their family. The people had so much courage in them and believed in what was right. There were some great leader’s that came out of that era. Races were trying to and they did break barriers. They were themselves, they had pride in what they did, were respectful, and just wanted to do and be better. The 70’s babies are known as “The Hippie Generation”. They were so calm and easy. The people just wanted show love to Mother Nature and warn us about the effects of not “going green”. They also were druggies and promiscuous and became a little ‘laxed’ on the strides they should be making. Can you blame it on the organized killing of some of the most influential leaders? That’s another story. Fashion and music became a major staple all over the world in a major way! The 80’s babies are known as “The Crack Generation”. These people had to sit there and take the fact that crack was influencing and changing their neighborhoods. Police figured since they couldn’t make people slaves and couldn’t beat them with whips and chains, they’d imprison them for life and beat innocent and the guilty with billy clubs. When that didn’t work, they’d kill people or better yet, get people to kill each other. Whether the killing was gang related or crack related, it didn’t matter to them. This is the generation where they saw how hard their parents worked to make a better life and decided they would never work that hard and slave for ‘the white man’. People turned to music to try to escape, and with that helped emerge a new way of protesting. The 90’s babies are known as “The Lost Generation”. What do you expect when you mixed the two previous generations? These people feel they need to reap the benefits of the work from previous generations without really having to do all the work. They feel a sense of self-entitlement and that the world is their oyster; feeling they are invincible. They feel they need to experience something on their own before they learn their lesson. However, they are brilliant, they have figured the easy way to doing things; take a look at technology. These people are pop culture’s babies. Parents we’re too busy trying to make a living for their children that the television, magazines, and music raised their children. They are latch-key kids. There is no voice for the 90’s generation, most follow and don’t lead. They are simply ‘too cool for school’. The 00’s babies, I’m predicting, are known as “The Abandoned Generation”. You could simply look at the pattern and come to that theory. The people in the 00’s are raised by children; “babies making babies”. Their parents are too consumed in “doing what they need to do” that they are forgetting that they have to grow up and be parents, and not act like a sibling. These people are the ones with teacher’s that barely teach, so kids can barely read, or know how to multiply; they don’t even write in cursive anymore. They feel no one is listening, so they let the internet and video games raise them while they pop in their TV dinner and play parent to their younger sibling. These people will have the hardest time trying not to go broke to try to get into college, and that is if they can get in with this receding education system. They will be working all of their lives because there will be no social security for them. They will know they are forgotten about and become numb to the fact, because they have always been abandoned. These babies will be some of the most intelligent babies ever! They will break rules and make a way out of no way. They will be inventors and help light the torch that they will pass off to the 10’s babies. This generation will breed innovators. It will also breed the most culturally sensitive people with globalization being in full effect. The 10’s babies, I’m predicting and hoping, will be known as “The Restoration Generation”. With all the changes that have been made over a century, they will be the result of it. Less racism, more going green, understanding the damages of drugs, finding their way, and understanding the disadvantages of being abandoned; they have the tools to understand how to turn the world around.