He Said What Now?

Mark Bauerlein, considered himself a bit of a maverick when he
openly insulted the generation of young adults growing up in a
technologically advance world, in his book "The Dumbest
Generation..." Speaking on behalf of this generation, I am going
to tackle some of his key points that he has discussed in his interviews.
First, I don't feel that it is fair, to call "us" the dumbest generation,
when ever generation were faced with different issues. For example
the generation that lived during the cold war actually thought if the
duck and cover under school desk they would be saved from an atomic
bomb, but no one is calling them dumb. When the atomic bomb was dropped
few people knew about the aftermath and the lingering effects on the ozone
layer along with cars polluting the air we breath. What we, as a society, know
today to be true, will change over time, when that happens we should not be
concerned with dates. The true question is how can one measure an education
by value especially when it applies to generations. We are a generation that faces
internal and external conflicts that are out of reach yet we are still criticized.
What I mean about internal conflicts is our generation has to find a solution to
global warming as well as try to prevent genocides like in Dafur. We are a
generation taught to multitask because, the value of a minute is one that cannot
be spent on one event alone. Every generation brings something new, these should
not be viewed as bad things but a mean of finding a solution.