http://www.cocomment.com/comments/eliadiodati Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-26T06:21:51.100+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=eliadiodati&conv=366039&comment_id=5102414 Elia Diodati How about because people in my generation are more concerned and/or more informed about the news telling us that the world is going to pieces - that a good college degree is no longer the magic ticket to a nice stable career; that the world is being run by politicians increasingly disconnected with reality; that state welfare is an increasingly expensive mistake, and that a savvy investment portfolio is really the only acceptable minimum for a comfortable retirement - that the world is an uncertain, somewhat uncaring place that eats naïveté for breakfast, dogma for lunch and idealism for dinner, and we have no option but to go forward anyway. Please, give us Gen Yers some credit for some modicum of brains. The baby boomers have their problems; we have ours. 2006-12-29T22:34:14.645+01:00 2006-12-29T22:34:14.645+01:00