Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski.

This is something I was talking to Julia about on our trip to Chicago: I think our generation is going to produce a new era of hippies. Our generation has been brought up to think that we have the opportunity to accomplish anything we put our minds to if we work and study really hard. After 16 or more years of school putting us at the top 25% educated individuals in the United States, we are finding this to not be much of an accomplishment and finding it difficult to get a desirable job, or even less, a job that makes more than that of a waiter(save that of the members of UAW association). Our predecessors have not been opening up the job opportunities we had been led on to expect and fail to promote our advancement. I realize we are also the generation who received trophies whether we won or lost, which may have led us to think that we are more deserving for accomplishing less than we should be, and I also realize that other generations faced similar difficulties when facing realities in the job market. Now though, the rising unemployment rate, struggling economy, increasing cost of living, involvement in two distant wars, and the prolapsed age of retirement have made the transition to the working world quite difficult and quite discouraging for us. Those of us that had expected more out of life for less work will soon fall victim to apathy and pointlessness as we bum around and use up the resources available to us(parents and credit cards). Educated and angry at the system we may just take to the real world in a movement with new values and directions as our hippie parents did back in the sixties. The bums have not lost.