Topic: Modern attitudes - young generation
I occasionally read Anne Rice books; (they're reasonably good; but are deserving of their own thread on their content - has this author ever been discussed here in the context of conspiracy?). Anyway, as is commanly known her books are about vampires, reason I even mention the books; one of the vampires being over 500 years mentions at one point that he always sires a young individual from any given age because: 1) He gets stuck in his ways as he gets older, meaning he becomes disassociated with current culture...so... 2) Siring a young vampire means that over a period of time, he learns to see the world through the eyes of a younger person.
Being born in the mid 70's I am not particularly old, but I have never followed cultural trends closely. Over the course of the last year, I have spent a lot of time with people under the age of 20; and I am finding it increasingly curious and interesting how the latest generation view the world and life.
I was tempted to post an aspect of this in the "Mind-Control: Sexual Fantasies" thread, but this is a broader topic that only touches on that other subject in the form of relationships.
The whole idea of relationships between a couple seems to be very very confused now-a-days...and totally ambiguous. For example "seeing each other" but not "being together". "Being together" but not being "boyfriend and girlfriend". Sex of course plays a very big part in the picture; but is disassociated from the emotional feelings of the relationship. That is to say, those feelings maybe held back and considered as not being "real" until sex has happened.
Now, taking a step back from the relationship side of things. Lifestyle is very important, with material possessions probably being highest on the list. This aspect isn't merely superficial but is deeply rooted into how they perceive themselves and others. When looking from the outside it appears shallow, and the individual inclined towards this lifestyle is very detached from their inner self.
Externalisation of their entire worldview is a huge aspect of their lifestyle. Dress style, fashion, even posture, attitude and dialogue factor into this. When I say dialogue I don't just mean the usage of certain word's i.e. "cool" now, or "wicked" in the 80's. This goes far further into whole sentences and strings of words, often lifted directly out of movies or sitcoms. Indeed, on another level, such attributes are often emulated from a person associated with being cool etc.
Before I suddenly appear to be going of on a diatribe with a psychological evaluation on contemporary culture - I would like to clearly say I mention all the above for illustrative reasons.
Over the past few decades there has been an ever increasing amount of information leading people what is termed on NR as "awaken". We often talk about the sheep that are still asleep or cannot be woken...and many places at work I found that with the older people or people my own age.
But with the younger generations it seems to be different. I recently saw a small advert at www.adbusters.org , you see a guy sitting on a sofa in his living room watching TV. Slowly the camera pans around to the back of the guy with a voice over: "Your living room is the factory, the product being manufactured is you." as the camera reaches the back of the guys head, you can see he is tattooed with a barcode.
And this essentially and almost in totality is how it feels when associating with many of the people around 23 and under. Like talking to a product or a computer; this is clearly contrary to talking with older people where it feels like talking to someone that is asleep.
Of course, we all here know the various reasons as to why and how this has happened. But as of right now, I am wondering just how deep this goes. The association with anything spiritual or inner self seems utterly and totally removed. How does this affect their etheric and astral nature / potential? How does this affect their inner experiences? What about their potential for gaining knowledge of the world around them for themselves?
I have watched over the course of 18months a person under the age of 20, slowly move away from being an open minded individual whilst they form their whole worldview. This worldview being based on the bullshit being broadcast, transmitted, printed and spoken constantly. It is an amazing thing to see the foundation of someone’s worldview form from the sand of all this bullshit...and witness is slowly solidify into what the individual believes is the basis of life.
The frightening aspect in this of course is my inability to directly alter this process - in any other way than gentle and subtle guidance.
There appears to be a hell of a lot of knowledge and experience on NR; so I wanted to share this experience, discuss it and perhaps hear other people thoughts and experiences on the whole thing...
Thanks...
Good observations and comments. In a nutshell, the general trend is one of "image" with kids nowadays. Materialism, gadgets, the right clothes and shoes, and projecting that image. It's nuts. 
These kids are almost Super Human. It's mind boggling. At my last job in Florida we had a girl who worked on the weekends who was, get this: 17 years old, already living on her own, finishing up her FIRST YEAR OF COLLEGE, pulling straight A's, ate only super healthy food, worked out obsessively with her *24 year old boyfriend whom she lived with* and even kept this anal retentive 3-ring binder to keep track of her complicated workout regimine. I've never seen anything like this. She was trying to be 100% perfection, all the time. My half sister whom I've never met seems to be on this same path. Last time I heard, when she was 5-6, she was already tri-lingual and playing the violin and who knows what else. Me at the age of 5-6 was sitting in the dirt pushing matchbox cars around with my little boy buddies, playing with dolls and squeezing Play Doh in the Play Doh fun factory. 
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, my stomach had to be pumped.