I have watched the smartest graduates of our best schools, one after another, year after year, enlist to become corporate vice presidents and managing directors. I have watched them stop reading books, stop voting in local elections, stop reading pages A-2 through A-10 in the daily newspaper. I have watched our generation let money become a proxy for respect, and then a synonym for respect, and then the only kind of respect that counts.
I have seen us judge books we have not read, politicians we have not heard, musicians we have not listened to, referendums we have not debated, and fellow citizens we have not met.
I have watched members of my generation lie to each other, pretending with a nod that they have been to such-and-such hip restaurant because they do not want to appear so un-hip as to have never been. I have seen them pretend to have seen so-and-so in concert, pretend to have "once or twice" gotten high on vogue illicit substances, pretend to have tried sexual......

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Title: Generation Y
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