After watching How I Met Your Mother reruns tonight on WGN, the Chicago news came up, covering the ongoing protests of the NATO summit there. The reporter asked the protestors what message they were trying to send and she had to go three deep before anybody had anything meaningful to say: complaining about the Afghanistan War, which was part of the summit's mission anyway. (The first said she was there to hang out because the leaders were having dinner and "we weren't invited" the second guy literally said nothing.)
I don't really sympathize with protestors now, so when I look back at the protestors 50 years ago, like the Freedom Riders and civil rights leaders, I kind of wonder if I'd have been on the right side then. I hope I would have. Looking now, though, I find it hard to believe that history isn't going to look at these people as jokes, if it remembers them at all.
It feels like a disappointment that these people are getting this kind of news, thinking they're changing the world, yet they don't know what they're changing from or to. My generation is awesome.
No comments:
Post a Comment