I know I'm a little late to the conversation about the future of American teens, but that sort of thing happens if you have other things to do. It came to me while having a cigarette and coffee by the gazebo. And I by no means got there alone. I was talking to the wonderfully nice college kids in the gazebo and lo and behold we came to the clear conclusion that much of suburban America (America referring to the United States) is fairly boring and to escape the mind-numbing nothingness, a lot of the youth partakes in "Drugs". Now, by drugs I mean illegal hallucinogens or anything in the general vicinity including MDMA, "Molly", ecstasy, heroin, pep-spice, LSD, etc.
See? That's the thing! When a country such as the U.S. being the cultural power of the world (I'm using this loosely) gets to a point where it feels it's at the top, then the citizens feel like they don't need to do anything. They don't need to produce or anything of the sort and manage to find new obsessions like hoarding, being addicted to social websites etc. Because nothing cool ever happens, suburban America becomes this cookie cutter wasteland where almost nothing changes. And when nothing changes, life or at least the feeling of life spirals into oblivion! or so I think it might feel.
Suburban America needs a new goal, something to look forward to, to actively search for. I guess. Be productive. Do, SOMEHING. ANYTHING but that.
