We Are Getting Cheated: An Exchange Student's Social Commentary

We, the youth of the world, are getting cheated. We are being sold fake love, cheap drugs, and crappy music at the expense of thousands of years of human development and wisdom, of our natural resources, of our national identities. Why? Because we want to be like the people on MTV. We think that this oversexed, overhyped, overdrugged reality shown on our TV screens and getting it blasted at us on the internet, is what life is about. We are getting cheated, and we aren't even putting up a fight.

And we are supposed to be the one changing the world for the better.

Why don't we fight? What is preventing us from ending the destruction of the rainforest? From putting an end to oppressive governments? It's ourselves, we just are too busy smoking the next joint or sleeping off that last hangover. We, as a generation, are counting ourselves out before the fight even starts. We have the potential to change the world, some of us get and already have (the Arab Spring, the campaigns against SOPA, and the countless young people from around the world defending their countries by serving in their countries armed forces), but most of us haven't. Most of us are perfectly content just playing the next Call of Duty or buying a new snapback from some overpriced store at the mall (which probably was built on some cleared out patch of forest, and the hat made by a 5 year old in China). We are to busy securing our own needs instead of securing a future for the planet and the rest of the people who will live there in the future. It's honestly, disgusting.

We, instead of being the generation who collective shout,"No, we aren't going to let consumerism consumer us, we aren't going to live like this, we will stop it." Instead we are just going to rollover, listen to the newest single from Lady Gaga, and let the world destroy itself.

We could change, we could dedicate ourselves to something greater then us. Whether that is an ideal, or your people/country, or God, whatever inspires us. We could change this, we don't have to destroy ourselves, our society, our culture, and our planet. We can prove humanities worth.

But it's up to us. It's our world now, getting freaking motivated. Get in the fight.

P.S I promise the next will actually be about Germany, and not a social commentary.