With this fairly new paradigm shift we are going through; our debt crisis of over 3 trillion dollars in the hole, and our still struggling economy of unemployment in some states anywhere from around an average of 6-12%, it is best we stay informed and understand what is going on. We can change what is going on slowly by learning, it isn't too late to learn and study. I am older college student (basically just graduated), my math was and still is pretty horrible, I have had trouble even with some basic grammar, spelling, and so on but I am a college graduate. This doesn't guarantee work anymore we have learned that and the education I believe isn't as good as it was in the past. Educators generally don't tend to care as much or they are too old and don't understand how to teach to a new generation of kids and adults. That is a crazy thing to think about but its history and has been talked about for probably the past 2 years. I have had several conversations with both the baby boomer generation and with folks from generation Y (that's my generation) and we have come to a general conclusion.
We are different, plain and simple. The older generation has a stronger foundation, they are stable and have theory and practicality that most of us didn't get, they have discipline that we never got as well, and they didn't have distraction which we have at every given second. Did they all have morality and social responsibility down in the business world, not really. Was the environment of any thought for them... Not really... But these are things that are thought of now. What we are creating now are opportunities that revolve around or that should revolve around people being happy to work for and with each other, new innovation with technology that helps maintain what we still have for resources, and was to create jobs that involve new ways of creative thinking and using places where we have lost jobs like India and China and finding ways to educate our people to still manage them. If we don't they will. But its not all about Us vs. Them.
What the youth has done is that it has created a new level of speed and availability with and to use technology (cell phones are the new computer), computers are at times the new reference guide and even book... and so on. The Kindle and iPad will replace newspapers, magazines, and even a great deal of books. We have taken a few brain children and adults and had them levitate our ways of working and living together. There is change and the youth may be even reading less (I know I read less then my parents ever did)... I think we read shorter pieces but many things.. We are multi-taskers but really we need to learn to slow down!!!! We cannot go on at this rate or speed. We need to find ways to create happy forms of operations where people are using each other in ways where everyone gets a slice of that pizza pie...
What I am really getting at is that we must work together and learn together to create a new system or many new systems. We need a- new education system (one in which we don't single out or discriminate due to a standard way of thinking or problem solving), we need new forms of government (not just Democrats, Republicans, and Liberals fighting back in forth), we need new ways to sustain energy (using already existing resources to re-use to not waste as much).. and so on. I don't have answers, many of the articles, videos, and so on that I have gotten into don't have them either. What I do know is that this progression IS HAPPENING and I am watching it. It is not going to happen easily and isn't happening perfectly but if we figure out how to work together as a country and as a Global Community as well we may have a chance.
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