NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman this week about “Generation Q,” what he calls the “too quiet, too online” twentysomethings who he thinks overdose on optimism and idealism and skimp on true political passion.
American needs a jolt of idealism, activism and outrage (it must be in there) of Generation Q. That’s what twentysomethings are for—to light a fire under the country. But they can’t e-mail it in, and an online petition or a mouse click for carbon neutrality won’t cut it. They have to get organized in a way that will force politicians to pay attention rather than just patronize them.”
American youth is anything but lackluster. We may have earned a rep of being apathetic and apolitical but we’re just a different kind of political.