Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Happy Birthday, TenNinety!
Hello! My name is Andrea. And I want to change the world!
The hubris! How I wish I could be less idealistic! This enthusiasm for achieving my goal has grown into a career in international relations, global health, and law.
To introduce myself, I am a daughter of St. Louis living in New Jersey. I have worked in New York City at Medecins Sans Frontieres, the single most influential experience of my adult life. My interests include: family, good food, hard work, persistence, innovation, and my generation.
A generic mash up of fashion, geography, time periods, celebrity, and music, the young adult 'Hipster' fad has overtaken the country. Slowly, city-by-city, crept Hipster moral relativism, even apathy. A complacency I attribute to conformity driven by internet homogenization (though I agree correlation does not imply causation).
The irony: There is no blanketing theme which unites we young adults. Such a culture of individualism is unique and self-destructive. However prosperous one is individually, the ripple effect left behind can be devastating. However, ad-hoc individual measures are no match for the breadth of a mass movement.
My generation will lead the country in finishing two wars, quelling an environmental crisis, and brokering peace around the world. We all want to know that our future needs will be met with minimal bloodshed, climate change, and poverty.
In seeing recent protests in Iran, I have been moved to act NOW.
As Thomas Friedman put it, "America needs a jolt of the idealism, activism and outrage (it must be in there) of Generation Q. That’s what twentysomethings are for — to light a fire under the country."
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