The single greatest reason that I hate teenagers is the fact that it is no longer ‘cool’ to be smart. Although this has always been somewhat true, my generation has pushed it to an all new level. The anti-intellectual attitude that is present in most of popular teen culture is something that totally baffles me. The vast majority of people my age aspire to be rappers and movie stars, not scientists or engineers. They want to be millionaires, but they can hardly compose a complete sentence. I am sick and fucking tired of being asked to dumb down my speech because I use ‘big words’ like specification and qualify. It sends a chill down my spine when I get a glance of a classmate’s writing in honors English and I have to consciously put forth conscious effort to decipher their illiterate babble. I’m disillusioned and burnt out because I’m surrounded by people that think the multiplication of polynomials is “hard as a bitch!”. I’m disgusted every time I see the epidemic of bigotry, misogyny, hatred and general nastiness every time I step into my high school. I’m confused and angry. I don’t like what is happening to my generation, and I’m genuinely afraid for the future. There are many people my age that I know that are wonderful, smart, and can maintain an intelligent conversation for more than a few minutes. The problem is that that group of people is vastly outnumbered by the legions of idiots who fear anything with more than four syllables. It’s hard; being scared and along in a sea of stupidity. Hopefully that little nugget of optomisim and hope for humanity is right, and we might not eff it after all.
tl;dr teenagers are stupid and, and I hate them.
