General Discussion

I agree with just about everything you have said. The reason I titled my post a rant was that I knew when writing it that it might sound somewhat self serving. But I agree 100% that my generation is far from unique in having to face seemingly insurmountable odds.

I agree with the need to form social networks and movements. And I agree that the internet is a tool that no other generation has had in history. A powerful tool we should look to leverage for all it's worth. It's now known that the uprising in Egypt was largely twitter and other social media driven. It seems much of the Arab spring movement has been likewise. The occupy wall street movement is a prime example of the kind of global organized protest we should expect to see more of. And yet as someone else has pointed out here the internet has also created in our generation a very different form of socializing and interacting. Many of us now interact and express ourselves online better than we do in person. We were raised on TVs, computers, games, and the internet this is how we think first and foremost. And perhaps this is part of the reason you have not seen the rise of some of the unions you mentioned. Because that kind of more local one on one networking, the more intimate exchange has been relegated more to the back burner in my generation.

Indeed I'm keen to see who will emerge in the coming years from my generation to take the reigns of power. I desperately hope that we will continue to see the reversal of the hatred and distrust of intelligence in our leaders that has held away for the past decade or more. Obama seems to be bucking that trend and it MUST continue. For if there is anything that can destroy us it's the continuation in the glorification of ignorance. I don't want a leader who I feel I can sit down and have a beer with, specifically because that speaks to his intelligence level, I want one who bowls me over with his brilliance. Cause we are going to need brilliant minds in position of power. Like you said we have tools and resources no other generation has had! Put to proper use there's no telling the advances we could make, the problems we can solve. But it will take a visionary or two with the courage to use said tools and to unite the people.

No need to thank me, I'm the one thanking you.