I am Millennial, hear me....well, roar over the internet!

For those who know me, you know i'm not really a person who has an overabundance of pride in things. School spirit? "eh." College spirit? "we have sports teams? God i hate my school..." patriotic spirit? "have you seen the title of this blog?"

About the main things i take pride in are my friends and my creative stuff (shows, stories, etc).

But i've been having an awful lot of Generational Pride. Or what you can call Millennial Pride, because i realize just how cool our generation is.

Guess what? others are noticing. Thanks Obama.

I can't tell you the number of articles i've been reading about the generational gap that has appeared in national politics (consensus reading something like this: below 45? Obama. Above 65? Clinton/McCain.) . As a result of this sudden noticing of the Gen-Y'ers, more and more attention is being spent analyzing who we are.

For those who don't know, Gen-Y (aka Millenials) is roughly those born 1984/5 onward to the late 90's. We're inventive, and the first tech/internet savvy generation. Oh, and did i mention we lean to the Left (come on, i had to throw politics into this). We grew up under Clinton I, but came of age in the catastrophe that is Bush II.

Don't believe me? looky-looky (i got Hooky!)

If you want a good article, here's Bob Herbert from today's NYT Op-Ed section.

money quote:

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“Millennials mostly reject the conservative viewpoint that government is the problem, and that free markets always produce the best results for society. Indeed, Millennials’ views are more progressive than those of other age groups today, and are more progressive than previous generations when they were younger.”
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Anyways, just thought i'd say that we rock. Hooray for inclusive, progressiveness. Take that, Boomers!