Our Generation Needs to Get Its Act TogetherThe hippies left loads of unfinished work. Sure, there's not as much blunt racism anymore as there was in the fifties, but it's still there, in meaner, nastier, subtler ways. They may have stopped the Vietnam War eventually, but that doesn't mean that war has stopped or even remotely slowed globally.
Sure, the hippies were disrespectful, and of course high most of the time, but I'll be damned if peace, love, and happiness as an ideal isn't the closest we've ever come to getting it right. They had a vision, only went about it the wrong way--and so they fell, seemingly, God forbid, never to rise again.
But our generation expects to change the world by sitting in front of their computers! If each of us is playing our own game of Farmville, how do we expect to interact on a deep level? If each of us is sitting in our rooms late at night on Facebook, how do we ever expect to unite? The internet is a gift, the means to communicate faster and more efficiently than ever before. Surely this should be a reason for our success, rather than our downfall. When we, as sad suburban middle-aged men and women, tell our children about the 2000's and the 2010's, are we going to sigh and lament how we wasted our time and resources?
Or will we realise what we can do, decide that it's time to do it, rise up once more, and take one more step for the progress of mankind? Since the 1900's, the world has been in pretty much constant revolution. The 1920's brought jazz and flappers and the rest. The 1960's brought hippies, rock-n-roll...the 2000's brought--? We could be great, if only we could get our act together, tear our eyes off of our Facebook pages, and pull off something worth telling to our children.
-SJB, in the desperate and dim hope that in someone's mind this disheveled and rambling journal will plant a wild seed.
Frustrated
just his name makes me smile
that poem was popular at book camp, and i thought that no one else would notice it
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