It is absurd to generalize an entire generation, but every time I walk through the halls of Berkner, and hear the conversations about who is dating who or who was in a fight with who or who likes who, I just tune it all out and think “ Why does our generation care so much about the routine and pointless things in life, when there is so much more out there that we could be talking about? I mean it is no wonder that my generation, Generation Z, has been labeled “Lazy and Unaware”.What about the polar ice caps melting or what about the fact that people today still contract deadly diseases from unclean water or what about the other billion problems that this planet faces. I know that I myself am a hypocrite and am not exempted from the distance our generation has with the real world, because it is just as bad to know the problems in the world, and do really nothing to try and solve them. I believe for the most part that while my generation has such access knowledge and technology, we tend to be both self-centered and apathetic, especially through our portrayals in online and in pop culture and how we represent ourselves by our technology use. …show more content…
There are not enough fingers on both my hands to count the number of fanfiction books that I have began where the main character was the average teenage girl, who was obsessed with social media, Starbucks, or the mini drama within her life. It is only ever in dystopian novels where you find protagonists who stand for change, but those books are purely fictional. It is not just in books, but online too, where our true colors