My Generation

[Drache]

I wrote this for a University class I'm in and the teacher said it was well thought out. It's a sort of philosphy type class but mainly squared upon philosophy of my generation. I figure I'd post it here and so how long it might take to get this topic locked!  I have to read this on Monday next week infront of the class, yay me!

Warning: Use of some strong Language, drug references, and alcohol is present.

WTF is wrong with my generation?

Ok I really must ask this question. I know this most likely won't sit well with the people I know who fall under the topic of this essay but franky, I think this must be said.

I really think my generation is screwed in the head! I guess the only reason I can write this is because people think I'm a loser for not "getting down" with this crap but damn man. First off, why the hell to you guys and gals drink until your are so drunk that you either pass out, can't stand and/or, shit/piss yourself? Do you think this is fun? Why? I can understand going out with your friends and having a few brewskies or other alcoholic drinks but what is the need for getting as the term is put "shit faced"?

I can go to a bar with my friends or alone and have a perfect time without the need for over indulging myself. I mean come on, you get so drunk you start to slur your words, you can't walk straight, you think everyone is your pal, and you think you're God's gift to the opposite sex. I've picked up girls in a bar without the help of drinks for me or her, and all you're doing by feeding drinks into him/her is getting their mind so screwed up they don't know who they are sleeping with. To me this sounds just as bad as using a date rape drug. Coyote Ugly people! Know the term?

Next we'll talk about getting stoned, high, buzzed or whatever you want to call it using pot, dope, or other types of drugs. Once again why do people find the need to just go out and use drugs? If you can't have a fun enough time with your friends without the use of drugs then you guys/gals really need a bloody hobby or something in common. If you need pot or drugs to make things funny, suck on some N2O better know as Nitrious Oxide AKA Laughing Gas. If you need to use marijuana for chronic pain then fine or if you're the type of people that mary jane mellows you out and you need it to relieve chronic stress that's ok too, but you punks don't need to to just have a fun weekend.

It seems everywhere I go my generation has nothing better to do than used drugs if not just marijuana. I was sitting on a city bus just two days ago and these 3 punks still in highschool are sitting in the back openly (and quite loudly) talking about how they use acid, shrooms, pot, etc and what their favorite ways are. Guys... using drugs does not make you cool, neither does drinking so much that if you breathed on an open flame you'd get a mini hiroshima.

Girls I just have one thing to say. Being a friend to alot of girls who love to frequent bars I've heard more sob stories than good ones. Most of these stories involve being taken advantage of to the point of rape. You may think it's funny to drink till you pass out, but once you're out you're helpless. You may very well wake up with your pants/skirt missing and your underwear down around your ankles. The same goes with drugs... don't take chances.

Bad things can happen and they don't need to happen to girls or guys like you in my generation. The way I see it we're already screwed up enough as it is.

[Brock Samson]

 Just seems like a rant to me, and then i read your sig. line... 
a good topic for discussion though,...

[Drache]

Just seems like a rant to me, and then i read your sig. line... 
a good topic for discussion though,...

That's the thing I like about my class. You can write anything that is about your generation whether it's a rant or something else. 

[Old Moparz]

It's cool to see you have a good outlook, but it's not limited to just your generation. I saw the same thing when I was in high school & college, & I graduated in 1980. (Even indulged a bit myself.) 

There were the same type of people back then that couldn't wait to finish off as much beer as they could, or experiment with something else to get "shit-faced" like you put it. I've had my share of "one too many" kind of nights, but never passed out or found the sick feeling to be any fun. I had one friend who amazed me by drinking too much, then throwing up so there was room for more beer. 

I stopped hanging out with most of them because all that spending on partying ate up the funds for the Charger I had back then. People generally grow out of the wild party stage, but some don't & advance to the next stage which is serious. I met up with one who hasn't stopped since high school, & he's been bouncing from one minimum wage job to the next for over 25 years.

But he sure was the coolest when we were 18. 

[hemihead]

Yep, alot lot of people I knew in 1982 are still that way.You can see them evey night after work at the bars or huddled around the T.V. on the weekend watching sports.And not all them are "losers".

[Mopar440+6]

Drache, I fully agree that our generation is going to hell in a handbag. However, I do drink but I still cannot fathom how getting drunk to the point of throwing up for the rest of the weekend is considered a good time...

[Lowprofile]

Good Job and Right to the Point.  I have never understood how being "out of your mind" drunk or stoned turned into a good time. I guess your buddies have a good time watching you puke all over yourself, getting your ass kicked by a bouncer, and falling down & cracking your head on the sidewalk. Well, ok....thats funny. 

[Drache]

Drache, I fully agree that our generation is going to hell in a handbag. However, I do drink but I still cannot fathom how getting drunk to the point of throwing up for the rest of the weekend is considered a good time...

I used to drink as well until I was diagnosed with epilepsy. Alcohol doesn't mix well with my medication  but I never drank myself into a stupor! I've also tried marijuana as well and I just couldn't figure out what the big hype is.

When I worked as a bouncer I threw and helped to throw so many drunk assed guys out of the bar it wasn't even funny. Some couldn't even stand on their own two feet so you would just have to pick them up and literally toss and push them out the front door.

[Orange_Crush]

Drache Drache Drache...

How sad is it that decrepit old men like Old Mopars or Rhinodart on Moparts are infinitely cooler than you are???

Here's the one I thought was hilarious...

Next we'll talk about getting stoned, high, buzzed or whatever you want to call it using pot, dope, or other types of drugs. Once again why do people find the need to just go out and use drugs? If you can't have a fun enough time with your friends without the use of drugs then you guys/gals really need a bloody hobby or something in common. If you need pot or drugs to make things funny, suck on some N2O better know as Nitrious Oxide AKA Laughing Gas. If you need to use marijuana for chronic pain then fine or if you're the type of people that mary jane mellows you out and you need it to relieve chronic stress that's ok too, but you punks don't need to to just have a fun weekend.

SO what you're saying is:

"Weed is stupid, so use this other, MUCH MORE DANGEROUS drug instead (in case you didn't know it, misuse of nitrous oxide is lethal as it will suffocate you because its heavier than air and settles in your lungs).

I think you need a better teacher.

[Old Moparz]

Drache Drache Drache...

How sad is it that decrepit old men like Old Mopars or Rhinodart on Moparts are infinitely cooler than you are???

http://www.grouper.com/GlobalMedia/MediaDetails.aspx?id=201776&st=2&s=7&q=not

[73dodge]

That has been the question that has been asked for 35 years now. The hippies and the stoners started this trend in the 60's although just about every generation has used some sort of mind altering drugs,  since then many people in many generations have been lost to drugs and alcohol. there always is a large group of kids that will over indulge in drugs and alcohol. Some will try it and get over it and make something out of there lives. Some will start and never stop and graduate to worse stuff and end up in jail and end up loosers for the rest of their lives. I see it as one more minefield that you must navigate while you are growing up.

Maturity is the key, a person who is mature will know what their limits are and knows the consequnces of violating those limits are. A person who drinks themselves to the point of making themselves a drunken idiot and then gets behind a wheel of a car does not know what the meaning of the word moderation is.

[Charger_Fan]

Drache Drache Drache...

How sad is it that decrepit old men like Old Mopars or Rhinodart on Moparts are infinitely cooler than you are???

http://www.grouper.com/GlobalMedia/MediaDetails.aspx?id=201776&st=2&s=7&q=not

OUCH!

73Dodge, I like that analogy.

As far as the passing out thing goes, if you're a smart drinker, you just need to know your limitations & be familiar with what you're drinking. Sometimes when you try something new, the alcohol sorta sneaks up on you...like Jaeger, for instance.
After witnessing that superglue thing at a party one night, I never drank something I wasn't familiar with when I went to parties.

[BigBlockSam]

Shrooms are cool. oops dropped my doobie. what you say,  i forgot what i was gonna write. anybody out there hungry too. see ya, got the munchies   

[Vainglory, Esq.]

I got two words: lighten up.

Okay, a few more words.  This whole thing has been happening to every single generation for centuries on end.  They just used different methods (although beer has been pretty constant) and called it different things (i.e. debauchery - whatever happened to that word?).  And if this is what passes for "work" in your class, I have to wonder - do you get graded?  Or do they just pat you on the back at the end of the year and say, "good job, son; your best may be sad, but it's good enough for us"?

I don't mean to pick on ya.  You've been remarkably more mature since you came back to the board.  But this I don't agree with.  Part of being young is making dumb decisions and learning from them.

[Duey]

"That which doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger"....well...sort of....

As others have said, replace your generation with any number of them out there and, while the details may change, there is not much different today (given how you've described things where you live).

Short of the drugs (honest, never done them, never will, but I don't judge at all) who hasn't drunken till you fall down, puke, regret life in general, then get back up and do it again next week?   Then, after about 21-22, I stopped doing that...well, stopped doing it to the point of throwing up more forcefully than "Gary" in 'Team America'... 

So long as you don't do that when you're the driver, it seems to be a rite of passage.  Just don't do anything that would endanger yourself or others...PERIOD!  Everything else is "gaining experience".  I don't want to tell you that everybody should do this, but you know what...we know that the majority will.  I even know my son will...but he knows I'll serious lay down an ass-kicking if he drives or lets others drive if they've been drinking (and no drugs)!  That is NOT NEGOETIABLE!  It is a firm, Size-12 combat boot square in his nuts for doing so!

So....Drache, your gen is probably not much different from those that have preceded you.  Experience life, but don't endanger it!

Cheers,
Duey

[greenpigs]

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  To me it isn't about doing those things its the people that think it is normal to get wasted on a regular basis and your the one with the problem. I've had enough wobbly drinking nights and tried some ...stuff .....but it wasn't for me. I have seen too many people loose it all to drugs to condone its use..you make your choice and YOU  live with it.