October 7
Why has my generation lost the innovative spirit?
Wake up, brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on your well-ironed pants, drive your car through increasingly stupid traffic, work 9-5, go home, brush your teeth, iron your pants, go to sleep………..REWIND!
Why does generation X/Y care so little about innovation and creating? What has happened in the last few decades that caused our nurtured generation to grow so unreceptive to creativity?
Alexandra, I completely agree with you. I am in that generation and feel that most of my peers, including myself, have been breast fed our entire lives. The luxuries of life sure feel good, but to what ends? Are we born to be entertained?! Even social activity has been interrupted with television and media. Many people cannot communicate interestingly anymore as they spend too much time entertaining themselves and less time being creative and entertaining others.
I think that because of the fact these kids (including my generation, compared to the hard-worked generation of my grandparents and great-grandparents) have pretty much been handed everything on a silver platter. Not having to learn to take care of themselves early on and to learn life’s lessons on their own have caused them to become indifferent about everything. They no longer have to do anything for themselves so they no longer care to be "innovative," as you say. Not sure, I just think that may have something to do with it. Hope this helps!
I think that because of the fact these kids (including my generation, compared to the hard-worked generation of my grandparents and great-grandparents) have pretty much been handed everything on a silver platter. Not having to learn to take care of themselves early on and to learn life’s lessons on their own have caused them to become indifferent about everything. They no longer have to do anything for themselves so they no longer care to be "innovative," as you say. Not sure, I just think that may have something to do with it. Hope this helps!
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Part of the problem with today’s Generation X is that they were raised in day care where no one taught them morals, manners, compassion, empathy, integrity, Truth, love of country and/or love of God. They have no anchor. They drift. They have never been taught how to love and value themselves, their neighbor, their country. It’s a parents job to teach their children all of those things, and parents are, and have been, too busy chasing the all-mighty dollar to bother with a small thing like teaching their children.
Parents have bought their kids every imaginable thing, and taken them on lavish vacations, but as I said, never taught their kids how to love and value themselves. Hence they drift…
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