I don’t really think we need another mad blog post right now but I have something to say about my generation, which was hastily called Generation X as soon as Pearl Jam was popular. Hardees commercials featured a guy talking like he was on drugs, and for the rest of our lives we would be referred to as slackers. But really we are the 80s children. And a lot of good stuff has happened because of us, including the surge of facebook and social media, which let a lot of people be creative after being shut out of the careers that fed us kelloggs and star wars when we were kids. Some cool education and civil rights advancement has also happened with our generation as the core base. I think millennials will live up to their name, too, but really this whole time period is obviously special. It could be that everyone alive now will get credit for starring in the turn of the millennium. It hasn’t happened since the year one thousand, and before that was when Christ’s communities became famous. I am fine with being one of the people who had a nervous breakdown, and I hope everyone can clue into the work and support still needed for people with disabilities of all kinds. Some groups are already talking about the Olmstead act, supposedly to protect mentally ill people from being locked up. But really what is going to be needed is good housing and programs that care about all the epidemics, possibly inevitable from the problems that have shattered so many lives in these times. It is not too late to be caught helping people instead of faking activism just to be cool and tearing up the work that still can save more lives than have even lived yet.
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