If your generation wants to change things, you have to make that your intention and stick to it.
The problem is that every group of young people starts off idealistic, but then gets bogged down with jobs, bills, mortgages, car problems, kids and the usual chaos of ordinary life. At that point idealism vanishes for most, and the focus instead becomes on day to day survival.
The trick to remaining idealistic and passionate is to never get old...lol.
Of course I'm kidding - and yet not. You may not be able to stop aging on the outside, but you can have full control over how joyous, idealistic and powerful you can feel inside. Just because your parents ended up a certain way doesn't mean YOU have to wind up there as well.
There's a wonderful book and series of tapes called "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. The theme may sound rather simple and obvious: namely that we can't go back and change the past, nor can we live in the future. The only thing any of us can ever have power over is NOW.
However, very few people spend their life in the now. Most either spend time reliving the past, either suffering over past mistakes or reliving past glories, or they spend time anxious over the future or fantasizing about what might be. All of their energy is tied up any place but the now.
The secret to so many things in life, successful stock trading amongst them, is to live fully in the present moment. That is also a key to staying young.
You might be interested in reading that book, fwiw.
Regarding politics, I'm not a fan of what has been going on, and I detest the spying on citizens. It's worse for me, as I have spent more than half my life in a country where that wasn't acceptable or even possible. Somehow the rules suddenly changed, and people seem to be accepting the unacceptable with barely a whisper in protest.
Regarding change, all we can do is change ourselves, and our immediate surroundings. That may seem modest, but I believe it's an excellent goal. You might be surprised as well, that if enough people focused on cleaning up their own mess, and began exerting a small influence on their immediate surroundings, changes might occur which no one had thought possible. Quietly living a brave life, living according to your ideals, can have a powerful impact on many people around you, whether or not you are aware of it. By living that kind of life, you are implicitly make a statement that it is possible not to compromise, and people who are disillusioned and doubtful may become heartened by the example and be inspired to do likewise. The smallest of actions can become a chain.
Finally, I think the current drinking age is absurd. I went to college when the drinking age was 18, and I enjoyed every minute of it...lol. For as long as I remember the opinion was that if someone was old enough to be drafted and die for their country, they were old enough to have a drink. Here in Canada the drinking age is 19, fwiw, and I don't see society falling apart.
In my mind a man who is heading to the front line and facing death has the right to a stiff drink at the very least. Either raise the draft age or lower the drinking age.
As usual, some idiots in government needed to find a quick fix to a bigger problem, and decided to take it out on a group of citizens who don't have a special interest group or lobby to defend them. I'm sorry about that
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