Baby Boomer, Beat, Greatest, Last, Lost, M, Me, MTV, My, Next, Our, Pepsi, That, Their, X, Y, Your, Z, …
Dear Old People Who Run the World,
My generation would like to break up with you.
— Umair Haque, The Generation M Manifesto
You wanted EVIL, we want GOOD! You wanted A SHARP STICK IN THE EYE, we want HUGS. You wanted ALLIGATORS, we want PUPPIES! Nowhere in this protracted wankfest will you find a single idea—to the extent these shallow platitudes count as “ideasâ€â€”that couldn’t have been cribbed from a random issue of Utne Reader 15 years ago.
— Julian Sanchez, The “M†is for “Marketingâ€
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that’s all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
[…]
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
— Pete Townshend, Won’t Get Fooled Again, The Who
Maybe it’s time to look for a hammer
image: Hammer-1.jpg, Wikimedia Commons
