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As a member of generation Y, I think the original "Organisation Kid" article really got what is wrong with my generation. We're not lazy, entitled, or afraid of competition, despite hundreds of articles by gen X/boomers claiming the opposite. We compete and work hard but never ask what it's all for.


When you start to ask "What is it all for?" you stop competing and working hard, because you realize it's an old man's game.

It's 2012. You can get HD pornography on a phone. Are we still expected to worry about all of this menial shit from the 60s?


> When you start to ask "What is it all for?" you stop competing and working hard, because you realize it's an old man's game.

That's one possible result. There are others.


No generation ever knows what its all for until they're 40 possibly 35 because you're outside the holy grail of advertising demographic. Coincidence? Yea probably. If you haven't figured it out by then your not paying much attention anyway. There's prescript of zoloft by the door for you.

Anyway, This essay is much the same that Allan Watts articulated in the 60s and I think he did it with much more panache and charm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

I find its best to laugh because it really has been a well executed practical joke.


Gen Y are you. The Gen Z millenials are the lazy coddled ones.




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