"Generation Q"

So here I sit in California, contemplating my generation with a couple of Anchor Steams in me (if you don't know what those are, stop buying Bud Light and look for a real domestic beer), and mind you I am of age and rarely, rarely do I indulge in a potent potable. So needless to say I am kind of loopy.

Anyway, I am technically part of Generation Q, and as "Georgia10" summarized, we are too quiet and not angry enough at our current situation.

Personally, I do not have the energy or the time to be angry and protest the situation. Am I disgusted? Hell Yes. Would I like to see a massive overhaul of our government? Yuppers.

I am sure that I am not the only one that feels that way, and as the voter turn out shows, I am not the only one that cares.

I think the problem has more to do with the fact that we have no real avenue for protest, no real place that we can make a difference. Sure we have the right to free speech, the right to assembly in protest of our government, etc. However, the massive bureaucracy that is our federal government asks us to jump through hoops to accomplish anything. Create a petition, get 3000 signatures, then MAYBE we can LOOK at what you want/need/desire.

The real only option we have is to vote, and our generation is doing that, and doing it more than previous generations.

So why are we the quiet generation? Because we aren't marching on Washington? We aren't burning bras? We aren't (enter political struggle/way to get attention here)? We have our own way of protest just as any other generation has.

So, label us quiet and uncaring. . . .

I'm rambling and I'm sleepy. . . . goodnight interweb land.

Economics of a Public Good

Well somone had to say it, and maybe then have it repeated over and over and over again: "What about the public good?" It seems that not many people are concerned with the side effects of a profit driven capitalistic society. Enter Eric Maskin, the Nobel Prize winning economists . . . economist? Concerned about the decline in public good? Well it's true, not all economists are focused solely on the creation of profits for businesses or figuring out how to save a sinking ship (one shaped like the United States Government perhaps?). It would seem that services and public goods once rendered to help the public are being overlooked these days in lieu of big business. It truely is everywhere. The environment is being bulldozed by businesses, public services once ran by the government are being sold off to the private sector, and all of it in the name of the glorious dollar (maybe the Canadian Dollar, it is worth more after all!).

So maybe Mr. Maskin, being an economist can translate this destruction of the public good into terms "Mr(s). Capitalism" can understand. Maybe there are more like him that could help the cause. . . .


Or, I hear Canada is a nice place to live O.o