But I like that you turn it around at the end of your piece. It’s ultimately up to us what we do, what we choose to spend our time and well-earned (or not at all earned) money, and it’s certainly true that reality TV is popular because of US.

It’s funny, my older brother was saying to me today that he thought it was funny that struggling corporations like Radio Shack (who just recently tried to make everybody call it ‘The Shack’ cause it sounds hipper or something) give a shit about the young demographic because a) there aren’t too many of us compared to other markets and b) we don’t have any fucking money to spend at ‘The Shack’. Yet now that I think about it, it pays to cater to us young’uns, because our boomer elders will fork out the dough for all those digital thingies that we covet so hard.

I think ultimately we’re a product of the toxic environment our parent’s generation set up for us, but now that we’ve come of age, it’s our turn to influence the shape of things to come. Unfortunately, these habits our pretty deeply-ingrained and it’ll be hard to kick these patterns. I think that using this potentially distracting medium (internet) for the purpose of questioning that very medium (a la what’s on your thing) is a good first step for us to tackle these issues. we can work within this fucked up system. WE CAN OVERCOME