Earlier this week, I told him about the Yale student who was found stuffed in a wall. His response was, "Oh really? Man, that's effed up. When did this happen?"
Now after asking him about the bus incident, I asked him again what really happened at the VMA's with Kanye and Taylor Swift (because I have heard people mention them so many times yet I don't know what's going on), and he gave me a nice well-explained answer. And he also told me that the reason he don't know the answers to my questions was because he does not have cable yet he managed to know every detail of what happened at the VMA's.
It's really amusing how teenagers or young adults (whatever you want to call them) don't know much about what's going on in the world -- or in this country. And this says a lot for this generation. Although a lot of us are well aware of what is happening, some would rather just stick to entertainment and let the adults (even though we are already considered as such) deal with the more serious news. Like Kate and Jon, how exactly do they put an impact to our lives? Does watching them all day and night on tv make us more keen on much this world suffers? No. Sure, they might be parents of eight kids but did it even occur to anyone that there are also families out there with this many kids (or more) and they're not even doing as well as they are financial and emotional wise?
I guess not.
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