20-somethings - does our generation matter?

[HEyHEY]

Are we doing enough at our age?

[LiberalTechie1337]

1. WE are doing plenty,

it's the other 90% of the lazy-ass good-for-nothings that allow people like Shrub to ruin our great nation

[Maple]

2. Dunno...what are you doing?

[HEyHEY]

3. Aside from trying to get by

I am in the unique position of being in media, which is where the question came from - for me anyway.

Anyway, that's the question - do you think 20-somethings are doing anything?

[Maple]

4. To be blunt

No

[eyesroll]

5. I will be quite happy in one year and two days

Then, I exit my 20s and leave this "what the hell are the 20somethings good for" bullshit behind. (This isn't a slight at you, HEyHEY -- it's at the "let'spandertothesenon-votersbyusinghip-hop marketing executives and the people who somehow decided I was an appropriate addition to their focus group about how 20somethings use cosmetics.)

I think I'm the only person on the planet who's looking forward to 30....

[Maple]

6. Well they're now calling it

the '30 going on 18' generation. :D

[eyesroll]

7. I'm frightened to even ask what that's supposed to mean.

I've thought myself a little adult since I was 10. The media seem to be conspiring to turn us all into kids again. ("Maybe we should delay the age of majority until you're 25!" "You don't really know what you want in life until you've had your quarterlife crisis" How bout this ... "bite me!" :D)

I know I'm obnoxious --but, I've grown tired of being carded (and then the requisite "oh my god you're like way old" from the 19-year-old clerk -- I'm only 29, for chrissake) and I've grown tired of people saying, "wow, it's amazing that people your age are actually caring about politics" and I've sure as hell grown tired of, "oh, you're just a baby, you can't possibly (insert relatively standard adult decision here) until you've grown up."

I understand that 40 is the new 30....but what's the matter with being a grown-up, anyway?

[madrchsod]

9. nothing wrong with growing old

as long as ya don`t get "set in your ways". i have known people who are old at 20 and who grew old but never lost their youth...well i`m glad when i hit 60 i`ll be only 50..but i think my body may tell me different.....

[madrchsod]

8. well the last

"20-somethings" did some good and some bad..that was my generation back in the 60`s. i won`t go into all that but this "20 generation" has so many more tools to work with plus the history of went went right and wrong in the 60`s-7`s. shit all we had was word of mouth, three networks,local and some "national" news rags,drug runners ,and driving from university to university. shit i had to use a mimeograph machine to print my little rag..now the internet connects the whole planet. we can freely exchange ideas across the world,hell international newspapers-we had to go to a "big city" to find a copy,now one click-any newspaper in the world. tv has gone from three to hundreds.
it`s up to all of us to use all this to get the message out and it seems that it is working quite well. we have more tools than any generation before and i hope for all of us you carry on the fight. time is growing short for my generation but we have children and grand children and when we go we hope they will have a better world and that is why we have to work together to change the course we are on.

[Tom Kitten]

10. I always have thought

the whole generation identity thing was totally absolute bullshit...people have their own minds, at least I have my own, what is the concept of attributing ideas to those born within a certain period anyways?
Hmmm?

[HEyHEY]

15. I'll revise

What I mean is, are we spending these years of freedom correctly?

[Tom Kitten]

16. No we have not....

too much listening to "Redemption Song" and marching in anti-war protests...They serve their purpose but that ain't gonna cut it...for now at least...It is an anethmea to do so but I get nasty because I hate our current regime so much! Honestly...

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Yes - there's a shitload of you

of course you matter.

All you have to do is vote.

[2Design]

12. the rebels are going to be those born 1985 to 1995 - that was while

Pluto was in Scorpio. They will have the guts to get deep in the muck of things and pull it up and say - look everything - this is muck and there is a lot more of it from where They got that.

[SmileyBoy]

13. I'm not sure. Probably not.

Who knows how we'll be remembered???

[dorktv]

14. I know I am doing my part as a 25 year old.

[LostInAnomie]

17. I personally do plenty...

... but if most of the people I know my age serve as a decent cross sample then no. I honestly think that we are the most self centered, apathetic, greed driven generation ever. We have very few social bonds, and see good works as a hassle or an impediment to our lives. The sad thing is that it is going to get worse until it gets better.

[SmileyBoy]

18. Definitely. As a 22 year-old, I think we need serious change.

I wish there wasn't a draft, but it might be the only possible thing that could light a fire under our asses. You wouldn't BELIEVE some of the self-centered people who go to my college.

[dorktv]

19. I could...I spend a lot of time with the ASU YDs and

most of them just want to socialize...god forbid they DO something.

[slinkerwink]

20. As a 22 year old, I don't think we're doing enough

[sbj405]

21. The other day at work, a guy in his forties says

"I heard a statistic that people who are 22 now won't be as mature as we were at 22 until there 32." That probably didn't make sense, but essentially that we're 10 years behind. I think it's BS. While people are getting married and having kids later, I don't think that makes us less mature.

As for your question, I think "we" that is doing something is smal compared with the "we" that is standing by.