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  • Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden

    Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden These ascendent generations may have a Facebook account for the web and to use Messenger, but they seem to be disinterested in a network where everyone hangs out, where… Continue reading

    Iterations: A Youthful Rebellion Against The Permanence Of Facebook’s Walled Garden

  • Digital Disconnect: Life in the InterDebtWork

    If we are going to stay on top of how the Interweb and its diverse intrusions into our life are in fact the very stuff of Control, it behooves us to never forget how global corporate capitalism–the InterDebtWork–is always after better… Continue reading

    Digital Disconnect: Life in the InterDebtWork

  • Freedom of the Age

    “Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it.” Thomas Paine  Source: piccsy.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles The Leisure to be Your Own… Continue reading

  • How to Save College | The Awl

    I focus a lot on what youth are facing as well as what their parents & grandparents have done & are doing concerning the technofuture which is mostly hear today already. Because I am involved in higher education, I tend… Continue reading

  • How do #Millennials Define #Happiness? | Breathe and Smile

    Very good take on the situation from a GenY perspective with a link to the important notion of  “Betterness.” There used to be a ladder to success. It was the college→good job→marriage→house→family→cushy retirement. Sure, not everyone made it, there were… Continue reading

  • They’re Not Digital Natives, They’re Digital Tourists!

    Originally posted on Used Books in Class: To all those who claim that all students today are digital “natives,” I beg to disagree. Digital natives are defined as those people who have grown-up using technology daily beginning in the 1960s,… Continue reading

  • The Socratic Sign

    There comes a time when you notice that a good swathe of your contemporaries are only worth engaging in order to sharpen your rhetorical weapons. To improve your mindful practice, you must turn to those much younger who recover within… Continue reading

  • Staying Alive on the Walls as they Tumble Down

    Thanks to my fellow phenomenologist David K. for passing this along. As a mash up of two very different trends among Boomers, I think it creatively speaks to the situatedness of millenials. Continue reading

    Staying Alive on the Walls as they Tumble Down

  • More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

    Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see… Continue reading

    More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

  • Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

    Wow. This is a really good piece that is totally worth a read. And then a reread. And then maybe a further read. If you are someone who entered adulthood in the last few years, you are a Generation Y… Continue reading

    Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

  • The Book of Life

    A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing… Continue reading

    The Book of Life