The first post I ever wrote for this blog was aptly called Muh-My-Generation. In case you were wondering how this blog got started, it was because of my utter disgust with the people around me. I was so happy about finally going to college, getting away from this Ghetto and moving forward, only to encounter a completely different group of people that I realized were worse.

But the problem with calling the, Liberal-Elite-Art-School-Hipster-Trust-Fund-Class, my generation is that they only make up a small faction of it. Referring to only them is about as accurate as saying the 90s was all about grunge. The musicians who topped the charts then were fucking Mariah Carey and Shania Twain or whatever dumb bitch was popular then. Most definitely not grunge.

We often pick the thing that seems “the coolest” of the trends and just say that whole era was that trend, when that’s often completely wrong.

My point is, these whiny over-educated liberals with no direction are not the masses. There, of course, is the rest of the country. The undereducated whateverthefucks… Now I am from the ghetto and of course there are major differences between being White Trash and Ethnic Garbage.

But usually the same thing happens when you are undereducated. I would like to posit that being undereducated meant something different before, I mean, it was something that could be overcome with experience. There are two ways to learn: Observation and Experience.

Observation meaning you see your Aunt Ethel touch the hot stove and get burned so you learn don’t touch the stove when it’s hot.

Experience meaning you touch the stove when it’s hot, it hurts, so you don’t do it again.

School teaches us to learn from observation. It gives us a compilation of the world’s knowledge, of people who have already experienced and observed and learned, and it passes on those tidbits of wisdom to us along with basic skills.

Before the Internet, there was less shit to do. Plain and simple, no cellphones, no computers. If we had to get something done we would have to go out and talk to people and do it. So, let’s say, if you were undereducated you could have more experiences and therefore learn more shit.

Humans are supposedly getting exponentially smarter, but that luxury of intelligence is only allotted to the people born by chance into the right geographical area, into the right parents, into the right money, into the right environment where they can hone that shit and own it.

When you are silently reading, when you are watching TV, staring at a computer screen, typing your brain basically has nothing going on. Monkey playing a tambourine.

This is how we choose to spend our time. Even the poorest of people have TVs and Computers. That is a fact. It costs money to do things, if you don’t have it you can’t do shit.

Poor people used to get creative, cow tipping (I dunno the country), playing basketball with milk crates. There used to be kids in my neighborhood outside all the time, not anymore. The way we communicate is via IM, the experiences we share are from youtube and hulu.

Less Interaction = Less Experience = Less Possible Intelligence

The best way to increase brain power and stay sharp are by doing these things:

• Reading aloud
• Doing simple math problems, like division, multiplication, addition, and subtraction.
• Writing by hand
• Practicing word memorization

No one writes by hand anymore. No one reads aloud after elementary school, it is actually discouraged. Simple math is for calculators after Junior High. Word memorization is obsolete after you take the SATs. It’s no wonder people are dumber now and our brains turn into mush when we get older. I noticed a severe decrease in my intelligence after I quit Debate which required that I do all of the above, except for math.

What I am saying is, people are annoying and stupid and the more you talk to them the more you’ll find that out. But we still need each other and we can’t avoid each other by emails and IMs forever, or rather we CAN and that’s the problem.

We need to go the fuck outside because all the traditional ways of learning have or will become obsolete one way or another. We need interaction to learn. To get that common sense that most pleibians don’t have. The problem with my generation is that we avoid each other. The problem is that we avoid everything.

Gossip Girl is on hiatus so let’s make some shit happen!

Limp Bizkit – My Generation

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