Research Blog #2 Privatization: What They Really Want You To Think?

"My generation is dead" is a lyric I picked up from a song by a modern punk band called Naomi Punk from Portland. This lyric made me think about how our generation is being absorbed by the different aspects of society without even knowing it. This made me question my awareness as a student in a society that is known to keep important information on the hush and away from the public. How much do I really know? How much information is actually readily available and how are banks brainwashing young people away and towards privatization. An example of this is the movie, The Red. This movie is designed to entertain yet inform students to be more aware of their debt. Their strategy is to connect with students through new media in order to properly convey their objective. However, how many students are actually paying attention? Are these students even caring or are they too absorbed by the fact that buying a new iPhone 6 is more important than paying off their loan. These questions raise controversy about society as a hole and how technology is becoming a stronger aspect and influence that is inevitably affecting the dynamics of privatization. Is technology turning us into zombies or mechanically engineered geniuses? How is this evolution creating this stagnant lack of awareness is students thus affecting the privatization of our education.

Research Blog #1 The Useless Generation: Who is to Blame?

 

The Useless Generation (Gen Y) is the new generation that is termed after the knowledge and motivation that young people are lacking these days. I stumbled upon this term while having a short conversation about the student debt crisis with a professor. Through the lack of consideration for voting, students are being taken over by their politicians who are finding it easier to make poor decisions while students are neglecting their authority as citizens. I will begin to investigate who exactly is to blame for this debt crisis. Is it the students' lack of participation, the lack of morale in the politicians that are being elected or the fate of living in a capitalist country.