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this isn't something that is confined to our youth. we just generally live in a more apathetic, shallow society now. we just live in a state now where people think, "oh, i could fight for what i believe in and stuff... but i've just got such nice stuff already..." and somehow our world and sense of what's right has shrunk to be things that affect us and our lives directly. i think it's a combination of unprecedented wealth and shitty media (i mean the fact that someone has actually written that agyness deyn's hairstyle is somehow eponymous with the state of the economy is... shocking and infuriating).
if i think about the us, fourty years ago people were rioting in the streets over conditions not too different from what exists today. but now it's hard to find even hardcore liberals who are willing to show up to a demo or to even speak about george w bush as anything more dangerous/haenous than a bafoon.
we've been lulled into this comfortable consumer culture. i'm hoping that a recession makes us care less about the new prada it bag, and a bit more about what's happening in the world around us.