The Dumbest Generation? Doubt it.

The recent book named The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein, talks about how the new generation coming into the world is a generation of know nothings who spend all of their time using pointless tools on the internet to be social and feel like their opinion matters.  Now, since I am in this generation, Mr. Bauerlein is trying to tell me I don't expect to work for anything in my life and I have too many choices. He is telling me that I just expect to be handed my future and that my opinion really doesn't matter.  Well, the opinion idea probably is correct, but as I could careless about his opinion, most people could care less about what I think, or what anyone else does unless it is the opinion of a close friend or family member.  But, I believe this goes for all generations, including Mark Bauerlein's, apparently "superior" (ha) generation.  As for working for everything in my life, I do believe I am very fortunate like many others in my generation as for being given the opportunity to go to college and live in the conditions I have.  If he tells me or anyone else that they do not work for anything in their lives I will turn around and show him all of the kids stuck in the library all day for a week studying for bio tests.  I will take him to the weight room everyday for 3 hours with the rest of the football players trying to live out their dreams.  We'll just laugh at him when he can't hang with us.  If he want's to talk about hard working, he could have at least checked his sources instead of putting in parenthesis the words "I think."  We'll Mark, I think that is being lazy, but thats just what teachers tell me when I don't feel like citing quotations right away in my papers.  His next point was to tell me I have too many choices.  Well he is 100% right that I have a lot of choices, but their are not too many, I remain busy constantly which is something everyone should do. It makes life interesting to always have something to do, whether is homework, video games, football, or going online for a little bit.  Mr. Bauerlein states that he likes to enjoy old movies in his free time.  I'm proud of him for trying to say he is more hard working than me, and most likely enjoys sitting around watching football games with the family (assuming he has one).  As for the book, I'd say if you need a reason to hate my generation, read it however false it is.  Otherwise, don't waste your time trying to believe in someone who writes about opinionated topics.  He says it himself, most of the time, "their" (meaning my generation) opinions don't matter.  (Neither does yours Mark. Welcome to my generation.)