8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back

[Shankapotomus]

46. Personally

I always trust the generation younger than my own because they have new eyes and can usually see what older generations have been programmed to accept without question. Not always. It usually depends on their politics and life experience. For instance, I would not put much confidence in a young republican raised by republicans. But on average, it is the young of every era that expose the Emperor's New Clothes.

Look at the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon. It was the preceding generation's blindness that ushered in this era of debt and consumerism which the young have finally questioned and exposed fully.

You also forget that the older generation you are talking about affected the great changes of the '60's when they too were young. It's almost always the younger generation that sees the problem in a number great enough to bring a change in perspective.