It seems hardly a day goes by where I don’t read an article, overhear a conversation, or see a news segment about how these young men and women lack ambition, are over-entitled, require “Trigger Warnings” and “Safe Spaces” to shield them from ideas they disagree with, are abusing drugs and alcohol at an alarming rate, and/or are enchanted by the ideas of affable lunatic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Clearly, this is a generation adrift.
And there are a lot of them. A few minutes spent searching the web places their numbers somewhere between 75 and 90 million, with the Census Bureau pegging the number at 83.1 million. That means that there are more of them than the previous champions in the Huge and Self-Important Generation Game, the Baby Boomers.
Thankfully, the oft-discussed Youth Vote is notoriously difficult to mobilize (see “abusing drugs and alcohol” above) but it’s clear that we’ll need to do something with this roiling mass of navel-gazing hipsters before they sober up, come to and figure out which day the election falls on and turn us into the next Venezuela—but what?
Well, I’d like to suggest that we eat them.
Our old friend Sean Moore as a suggestion.
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