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Arise, Daily Show Generation! Your nation beckons - By Mark Morford
The clarion has been sounded. The Grand Shift is nigh. And you are just about ready.
I’m speaking to you, children born and adults who came of age on or about, oh, January of 1999, just before Y2K obliterated humanity and right around the launch of your generation’s best and brightest engine of intelligent discord and sardonic resistance: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Most of you are now what, about 16, 17 maybe? Just starting to feel the pangs of wild lust and feral curiosity, just noticing how vicious and dishonest are the various injustices of the world, realizing with a fast horror how your elders screwed up the planet even worse than the generation prior and if you want to make it to 30 you’d better wake the hell up and step fearlessly into the fray, stat? You are not alone.
If you were extraordinarily blessed, your parents did what millions of other awesome, like-minded parents did: they planted you right alongside them, four nights a week, from the day you were born, to absorb from Stewart and his roguish crew the essential skills required to navigate – or often, just tolerate – the modern madhouse we call life: wit, skepticism, thoughtfulness, self-deprecation, razor-sharp intelligence, a fearless gift for speaking truth to (often shockingly dumb) power, droll exasperation and, of course, joyfully mocking Fox News at every opportunity.
I’m speaking to you, children born and adults who came of age on or about, oh, January of 1999, just before Y2K obliterated humanity and right around the launch of your generation’s best and brightest engine of intelligent discord and sardonic resistance: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Most of you are now what, about 16, 17 maybe? Just starting to feel the pangs of wild lust and feral curiosity, just noticing how vicious and dishonest are the various injustices of the world, realizing with a fast horror how your elders screwed up the planet even worse than the generation prior and if you want to make it to 30 you’d better wake the hell up and step fearlessly into the fray, stat? You are not alone.
If you were extraordinarily blessed, your parents did what millions of other awesome, like-minded parents did: they planted you right alongside them, four nights a week, from the day you were born, to absorb from Stewart and his roguish crew the essential skills required to navigate – or often, just tolerate – the modern madhouse we call life: wit, skepticism, thoughtfulness, self-deprecation, razor-sharp intelligence, a fearless gift for speaking truth to (often shockingly dumb) power, droll exasperation and, of course, joyfully mocking Fox News at every opportunity.
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/02/11/arise-daily-show-generation-your-nation-beckons/
