What a cliche' phrase. So often overused, but have you ever taken the time to seriously consider the meaning? I think that our society has forgotten how to process legitimate thought. As those of us holding membership cards to "Generation Y" know, if we don't want to think, we don't have to. The birth of the information super-highway (a.k.a. the internet) has given us the ability to 'Google-it' within seconds, look over the information, and go on our way. I know that when I sit down to write a paper, or study for a test I don't do it to think about the concepts being presented, I do it to pass the class. This is an absolute tragedy. Our parents, the infamous Baby-Boomers, are so much more wise than I think we're going to be when we're old and grey. They not only had to think about things, but they had to actually WORK to get where they are today. Our generation goes to college (mostly because their parents made them, or the select few who aspire to be the next Donald Trump), gets a degree in something 'practical' (business, law, medicine, etc.), graduates, and then expects to gain a top-level position in a Fortune 500 company. They don't want to start on the ground floor (or the 'mail room' as my Dad likes to call it), but they expect to be Vice-President of Global Communication for Microsoft, making $100,000 a year and spending Christmas in Fiji.
Where has our work ethic gone? Why do we think that we are so entitled to things? Because remember, we haven't really learned anything or thought about it, we've just retained enough knowledge to get us to the top spot, and then we just want to sit pretty. We have no real thought-process.
Now, I don't know how you feel about this, but it seriously scares me to think that the stories that we are going to tell our grandchildren are going to be about when we got our first MySpace, and then how Facebook came along and rival ensued. We need to get back to the roots of thought. Invention, imagination, and downright learning. Agree? Disagree? Why don't you sit and think about it awhile...
