The dumbest generation?

[niky]

The 60's kids, I'd say, were smarter than the 50's kids... these were the boomers... the ones who are now the movers and shakers of our world. Young idealists who wanted to change it... bursting with energy and ideas and innovation.

The 70's kids, these were the rebels, the radicals, the anarchists... they wanted change, but change in the marxist manner, through bloody upheaval.

The 80's kids, this was the start of the introspective generation. The cold-war generation where the future looked bleak and doom was but a tick of the clock away. This was when we began escaping into the nets, into our minds...

Generation X was self-absorbed. Emo before it became emo (it was called grunge). It was the laid-back generation, free to concentrate on its own issues for the first time, as the Cold War came crashing down...

The late 90's kids (my bet for the dumbest... ) were the i-generation... I-me-mine... Generation X was merely introspective, but Generation Y was (and is) positively self-worshipping... but at least they're full of energy... yearning to explore the world and their place in it... it's just the whole self-importance thing that turns me off (something continued by the bloggers and MySpacers).

The current crop... I don't know. They're finding a new social order... exploring new frontiers of community and civilization building. We're not a part of that, sadly... just can't keep up... but this may be the future... living online is vastly more eco-friendly than driving out to the clubs... :hysterical:

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As for literacy... what decade does the author live in? Kids have been advocating illiteracy since the 70's! :hysterical: