[manasecret]

Ick, more of this "in my day" nostalgia crap, and you're only 20! What is it about humans that makes us always think that everything was so much better back in the day?

Yes, I know what you mean about bringing up politics in a discussion, and people don't want to talk about it. Do you really think things were much different in previous generations? Weren't people just as focused on celebrities 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 years ago? Wasn't the two-party system the same broke-as-fuck as it was 100 years ago? I know plenty of people my age and younger that are more than willing to talk politics and are very opinionated about, some of them here! Don't you think that it has always been that some people give a shit about politics, and others don't? Or do you really think this generation has all of sudden become so different than the past ones?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that people didn't know nearly as much about starving children in Africa even 30 years ago, let alone 50, or 100, as we do today. I can prove this just by Googling "starving children in Africa" and read all the articles that come up. I'm going to go out on a further limb and say that we contribute much more time and money to those causes as a whole today, including people our age, than we did in those previous decades. I think people in the Peace Corps our age would be pissed off if you told them that they don't care.

And you talk about needing another World War?? Don't be so glib.