techpawn's Journal: S@t3 of t3h nation?

I honestly fear for the upcoming generations. My girlfriend's cousin sent 3000 text messages in 15 days... that's a constraint of 160 characters and I know his vocabulary is not that strong to be that concise. It will become more common place for people to communicate with as few letters as possible using a less than accurate vernacular. In 30 years time, the state of the union address could be a MySpace post by "BestPrezForeva028". Our foreign policy will be decided by people who can't even find the countries it pertains to on a map (and frankly, I think that's already happening). Economic policies will be picked by a generation deluged with credit card offers as soon as they entered college and filled out student loan forms. The generation who saves a negative percentage will be burdened with the Baby boomers seeking a non-existent social security because their generation spent it all by dipping into it for "other programs" as well as an astronomical debt from a nearly 8 year war in the middle east during the start of the millennium that was going to "pay for itself", wall street greed, and who knows what else. In the mean time, my apathetic A.D.D. ridden generation will have to clean up some of that before it causes some major implosion. Unfortunately, they're too busy making asses of themselves on the internet before it's reigned in even further from the wild west attitude left on it since it's become more "user friendly". Most of them have another 5 to 10 years to go before they realize that playtime is over and they have to start actually caring about genocides and elections and why ousting a military dictator might NOT actually be a good idea. Until then, we must endure: corporations dictating government policy, global in fighting, and general ignorance.