I hate to tell you CaptainCornbread, but you are a good guy. There are a lot of youth like you true. But this is becoming a 'world' generation and with it will come the issues of a lot of people worse off than Americans. If the hippies made a stir, then I think this one will cause an earthquake.
http://www.wiretapmag.org/story.html?StoryID=17985
This is a link to a story on anarchy being taught in colorado. "If ten people walk beyond civilization and build a new sort of life for themselves, then those ten are already living in the next paradigm from the first day. They don't need to belong to a party or a movement. They don't need laws to be passed. They don't need permits. They don't need a constitution. They don't need tax exempt status. For those ten, the revolution will already have succeeded."
The article goes on about other issues, but is introducing a philopsophy which I think will resonate with this generation, one which you admit has not yet identified itself as a class.
Identity is not chosen by them, as in 'hippie' or 'genXer'. It is fed to them by the controlled media. It was not coincidence that the hippies let their hair grow. It was fed to them that it was different, different was good and so everyone wore their hair long. Ironically, being different meant being the same, but that went over their heads. The abject consumers and wall street shysters of today were the 'hippies of yesterday who believed they were the opposite of this - they weren't, but just didn't get the fact they were being manipulated.
As for 'generation X' did you know that the actual term originated in a book by two authors who wrotea book about the generations of America? Terming their generation as the tenth generation of America, or generation X as in the latin numeral? The book was reviewed by a NY Times writer who used the term generation 10 as 'X' and it took off. The kids themselves never 'chose' all at once to be genXers. It was fed to them by the 'controlled-media', who went about compounding the error of one to manipulate a whole generation's self-identity.
This generation will also be fed their identity by the 'controlled-media', and it begins in the Universities with courses such as the one mentioned here. There is a lot to say on this topic and I could go on for a book's length. To get a clue how such behavior can be sociologically ( a false science in my opinion) manipulated on a mass of people, go and study the history of the 'Tavistock Institute' and the R.I.I A. . This is an eye opening area of study and will show how society is controlled. A look at the phenomenon of the Beatles and 'rock and roll' will be a good case-study. It was no coincidence, and impacted the entire generation by use of a new scale of music. I won't go on because I could really get carried away and so will save you the details you can find for yourself.
Be good as you are and don't get caught up in the fed-identity they will use on dupes to sell them hula-hoops and jeans. And remember to lock your car and house doors at night, cause "It's going to be baaaad"
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