The blind generation. I did not write this article, but when I read it I thought that the thoughts were creditable. I agree with the opinion of this article.
This article was written by a college student. Her name is Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA. It’s a short article but definitely worth a read.
My
Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
B-L-I-N-D!
I’m
sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to
write about. I scroll through my news-feed on my phone looking at the
latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix”
the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue
to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s,
ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it
dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous
nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food,
technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are
so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second
thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty
line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. (31)
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global
standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with
one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are
unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among
my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial
generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the
largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American
prosperity.”
Never
saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that
statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most
entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years
on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely
misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream
narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this
first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular
opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result,
elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.Why?
The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the Great Depression, or Great Recession as adults, didn’t live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, color tv, without smartphones.
We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.”
