Friday, March 9, 2012

Five Things American Youth Will Do To Change the World in 2012

Click here to access article by Mikayla McDonald from John Perkins.Org. 
Youth in America is objectified and sold as a product. Its materiality is assigned incredible monetary value. Yet the intangible merits of youth – its passion, its energy, its idealism, its creativity – are dangerous to the status quo, and we are therefore repressed whenever our rebellious acts move past “cute” or “iconic”. We are one of the most manipulated populations in the United States: our forms are idealized while our mental attributes are belittled and devalued.