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It’s so cliche to talk about how the younger generation isn’t cutting it like we did. That we had it harder. That we weren’t that ignorant.
But we also need to remember that these two newer generations came along at a time where the changes we saw are literally their normal. As we blame our parents for, we too long for and only see a world in which we grew up. We only just began to understand it ourselves. Yes, some of what we went through was different, but the core notion is the same.
So then, what is it? Is it the internet? The iPads? The lack of outdoor playtime? The so-called pandemic?
What is it that we are looking for, so desperately, that we have fallen into the same niche we took every painful step to avoid? When did we become our fathers?
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I was born in 1987. I came of age as 9/11 happened. Then, I watched my older friends go to war. We were all told it was to defend freedom, and we were absolutely lied to. Our lives became more survieled under the guise of safety. We watched a political system market itself on “Hope and Change” only for bigotry to be the overt standard in many places around our nation. Houses became unaffordable, and jobs became more exploitative than ever. The internet became privatized, and we became the product for data brokers.
The younger ones were born into this world, and many of us are so jaded at the possibility of a better world being possible that we have not passed down that hope. Instead of teaching them to change things, maybe Abiding is the solution.
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