Tired of The Blame Game

It seems to me that society as a whole, and nowhere more evident than within Politics in particular, likes to pass the buck with whom the responsibility lies for the outcome of our actions.

I speak in particular of a generation, higher than mine, there are many - as the definition of a generation in itself is very grey - but one thing that seems to breed incessantly is the mentality of blaming the next generation for failures at holding up "traditions" and "values".  Well to that I have one thing to say - take responsibility for your own actions.  My generation is the product of those that came before it, and the generation that will come after mine will be the product of my generation and the ones that came before it.  Before you pass judgement 'looking down' on the generations below you, do me a favour and do two things first: Shut up and take a long hard look at your own generation.

Politics is dominated by older people.  The current generation is often under-represented or even unrepresented within the government of the day.  Many government institutions systematically oppress the view of the younger generation - take the President of the United States - to be president you must be at least 35 years old.  In any other field an age requirement like this would be seen as age-discrimination, be deemed unlawful and the company instigating such requirements would be legally liable to prosecution.  Within Politics however it seems to be the norm.  The first thing most young people think of when they think of Politicians are old people sitting in a room squabbling - and that image is very justifiable.

Politicians blame the younger generation for many problems and failures in society, but as I said, we are the product of the generations that came before us.  When you see young people you brandish as criminals, is it any wonder they turn out the way they do when our role models who supposedly represent us in governance are as corrupt and underhanded?  When Members of Parliament en masse, fiddled expenses and claimed for everything from toilet seats to a moat - you seriously want my generation to swallow that swill that we were "brought up" to be moral?

There are parents who hold good values and teach their children right and wrong and raise them to be the best that they can be, and then there are parents who teach their children to be corrupt and teach them to exploit all that they can, to take advantage and do whatever they can to get as high as they can.  As long as politics remains to be dominated by people without conscience you have no right to expect any future generation to be moral.  As Politics dominated by older generations seek to satisfy themselves before putting in place the foundations of a better future you can not expect future generations to hold older generations in any regard.

What all this boils down to, is one simple fact - my generation and future generations may be selfish, and they may satisfy their own interests first, even if doing so contradicts the law, but they do this because it is what they have been taught, it is what the generations before us did and you can not sit on your high horse and pass judgement when it is about to collapse of malnutrition because you rode it to death never feeding it and caring only about yourself.

Do not be surprised when the world is turning to shit around you, this is the world of your creation, of your generation and the countless generations of selfish, self absorbed, all consuming short sighted fools.