I agree with the points Todd Buchholz made in his article “The Go-Nowhere Generation”. The American youth have become lazy in their efforts to try and improve not only their lives but their future as well. Perhaps the problem lies in their desire to have success handed to them, rather than seeking it out. Maybe the problem is that home life has become too perfectly comfortable. Everything they need is right there; they don’t have to work for it. They were raised in a time when futures went from limitless to very limited. As a college student, I do worry about not finding a good job in this economy. Before attending college almost guaranteed you a stable job but now students go in debt in the hopes that they might earn a good job. Nothing can be expected anymore and it is this uncertainty that scares many from venturing away from the comfort of their homes. There is no war to threaten us, there is not a fear of persecution to motivate us, there is no instability within our own lives which would act as reason enough to make any drastic change. It seems as if Americans just want to coast in the same direct through life without trying to change the path they are on. In order for the future to change, as a nation we need to want to excel and improve. We cannot accept the status quo. We define the future and currently it seems like we just don’t want to take responsibility for it.
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