Today is the 8th anniversary of the Columbine School Shootings, what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
Yesterday was the 14th anniversary of the Waco Massacre.
Yesterday was also the 12th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Monday was the mass execution or injury of more than 50+ Gen Y students and their professors.
And that is just the horrific activities that my generation has grown up watching on tv that happened THIS WEEK. We can’t forget the 9/11 attacks, 2 Gulf wars, watching a space shuttle explode in our classroom, Rodney King Riots (Much more wide spread than the media reported), and countless other events that are happening outside of our boarders.
Our generation has unfortunately grown accustomed to such events as it has been the constant as we grew up. Unlike the generations past – Our generation was really the first that had televisions in home (usually in most of the rooms) and school. We also had the internet from a really young age. The information that we have been exposed to be able to see is more than most adults did in the 60′s. The media no longer sees their role as a news outlet, but a business that can manipulate stories to make more profits. In the mean time, we keep playing our XBox and Playstation 3′s pretending to kill people as thugs or spies.
Yes, our generation is not as loyal and they are more questioning of authority and anything that seems like it sounds too good. Compared to many of my friends that are in the Gen X realm, Gen Y’er are a little harder to reach and often times think people are using an angle to get what they want.
Lets remember all of the victims that have lost their lives over this week in the last 15 years and remember for those of us that are in our 20′s – this has all happened as we were in our highly developmental years and forming our world views. So if we are a little more cinical of a recruiting pitch than the next guy, I hope you understand.
