Forum Post: Need Inspiration? Please read this article.
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 6, 2011, 8:22 p.m. EST by VenturingMinds
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Stand strong OWS.
Those were honest words of love. Beautiful.
"For years we’ve been labeled the “Me Generation”; we’ve been thought of as unmotivated and helplessly apathetic towards the world around us. Did we deserve this? Are we the ones who created this attitude for ourselves? Short answer: no. Each generation is influenced by the conditions of their time and often unwillingly form their temperaments from these same conditions. We grew up in the age of comfort and ease. We grew up in the age of processed foods and the commercialization of everything. From day one we’ve been blasted with messages from every corner telling us what we need to think, say, and buy to be happy. Marketers have been creating artificial “needs” in an effort to turn us into an army of mindless consumers, manipulated to blindly and unhappily grind the gears of consumerist Americana.
We are not zombies. We are not crude tools to be played with by the puppeteers of American society. And we are not dollar signs."