Why We’re A Generation Of Revolutionaries

http://elitedaily.com/life/why-were-a-generation-of-revolutionaries/

Excerpts:
All the protests were about young people coming together for change that hadn’t been assumed possible for hundreds of years.
Yet, they were part of a chain reaction of something larger, something bigger than the Internet (social media).

What about our generation is so prone to revolution? Many say it’s social media, the presence of the interconnectedness and the ability to share our thoughts with millions.

In an age when retirement and 401ks are distant dreams, Millennials have been forced into the unfortunate plight of being overeducated and underemployed. We’re a generation forced to sit around, thinking about our rights, the ideals of Plato and Aristotle, that introduction to Marxism and the Russian Empire 201 class, and everything else we’ve spent thousands of dollars to think about, as entry-level positions become fewer and further between.

We’ve been unemployed for awhile. In a time when it seems like every corner of the world is going broke (except Qatar and Switzerland), masses of young people have been forced out of jobs like never before. Coming out of college, we’ve been pushed into the world brimming with knowledge and energy, ready to take on life. Yet, we’ve found ourselves with nowhere to go and nothing to put our newfound knowledge towards.

We’ve been inundated with history, math, science, religion and philosophy, yet have nothing to do with the information but to see the unjust, the flaws, in our own world. We’ve been allowed the time to analyze the old establishments and regimes and become obsessed with the idea of changing them. We’ve realized that our parents were weak and we have the tools and the ability to amass thousands under a cause.

We saw other, better, ways of living and founded new hope on what could be. We graduated from school, took the time to look around the world, and we saw that it needed changing.