You say you want a revolution.

Well, you know, we all want to change the world.

"If there's no validity in religion, then what's the point? If we live and die and that's the end of it, what do we have to work towards? That's a depressing thought -- that there's nothing after this. That this is it. People need religion to give them hope, to make it all make sense."
"I think that believing that this is all that exists is freeing. It makes everything we do all the more worthwhile. It means you have to be the best you can be, and make sure that you treat others with the respect and dignity that they deserve. If this is all there is, we're more motivated to make the best of it all."

We are members of the new lost generation. We live ironically without even understanding that irony. We listen to bad music, and read bad books -- and maybe we think they're absurd, but when does absurdity stop being self-aware and turn into accepted reality? I say we listen to bad music and read bad books, but most of us don't even do that anymore. Everything's so passive. We listen to what's on, but we don't hear it. We read street signs, not books, and we only do that because we have no idea where we're going.

We follow trends because our identity is so wrapped up in our appearance that we can't be caught being something that doesn't make sense anymore. Our clothes are what our actions used to be. She's a hipster, he's neo-grunge, they listen to hardcore and live to mosh. You look like you voted for Obama -- oh, you didn't vote. Well, you're liberal, right? I mean, you have the blue dot sticker on your car.

We're disillisioned and disenchanted, but it's because we're egotistical and self-absorbed. It's not because we've seen the bottom of it all and are struggling to get back up. We need a strong sense of community and togetherness to make any sort of a difference, but we tetter between being spread so socially thin that we have no idea who the people are that we're "friends with" and being part of some exclusionary troop that finds comfort in sameness. It's not cool to do anything grand, so we all operate with our unthreatening mediocrity.

I don't have a solution, but I don't want to feel like this is as good as it gets -- not yet.