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Our mission is to ultimately create a new consciousness of today's youth.  Help mold this new image.  Participate.  Help build this site into an epitome of Us, the Millenials.

Who are we, really? 

Voiceless or unheard?

You choose.

7/17/07

I was once told that we are a voiceless generation.  A seemingly unintelligible mass of misguided, delinquent, drugged-up youths.  A waste, a wonder, and a worry. 

I thought long and hard about the implications of that phrase, "voiceless generation," and its devastating ramifications.  I was lying by myself (the first time in a very long time) on the bed of the backroom in a Tahoe timeshare, gazing out at the eternal night sky.  It was then, with the faint hum of the washing machine lulling my mind to sleep, that I heard it.  A low grumble, a muffled mumble.  It wasn't my stomach.  It was the voice.  That voice which I was so adamantly told did not exist.  It rang through the halls now.

There is a voice.  We struggle endlessly at this stage in life to assert ourselves as individuals within a larger society, and that search filters into the conception of us generationally.  Let us not be ruled by someone's perception of who we are or the labels they ascribe to us.  Let us speak up and out.  Let us be heard.   Let all of us be, The Voice.

As of July 2007, Wikipedia claims:

Generation Y is a term that designates a cohort of people born immediately after "Generation X."  It is one of several terms (including The Millennials and the The Internet Generation) used to describe the same group.

Additionally, according to this source:

The use of Gen Y as a term not only implies that the generation is merely an extension or continuation of Generation X, and not a distinct generation in its own right, but also makes a comment on the character of that generation, as in "Generation Why?" which is pejorative in its own way. (However, some members of Gen Y find the "Y"/"Why" connection appealing and wear the label proudly.Most of them are not aware of the pejorative origins of the term "Generation X"). Generation Y has also been thought to be the "spark" of the future to come or maybe just the tail end of the baby boomers time frame.

Numerous alternative terms have arisen that may sometimes be regarded as sub-groups of Generation Y. These include The Net Generation, Reagan Babies, Millennials, Hip Hop Generation, Echo Boomers, iGeneration, Second Baby Boom, the D.A.R.E. Generation, Google Generation, MySpace Generation, MyPod Generation (from the fusion of "MySpace" and "iPod"), Generation Next, Grand Theft Auto Generation, Nintendo Generation, the Halo Generation, Me Generation and the Cynical Generation.

So who are we, really?  I challenge us to define ourselves.  I implore that we express ourselves in order to efficiently do so.  We are "the spark of the future," says Wikipedia.  We are a new world.  How can we create this spark, though, without first knowing who we are? 

The Voice is intended to be that forum in which us Millenials, Gen Y, MyPods can mold and understand ourselves.  Let us dialogue, express ourselves through literary means to communicate to the world who we are.  Let us discover each other and the endless possibilities that are to ensue.  Let us name ourselves. 

Read, share, comment, critique.  The important thing is that we are one and that we enter into new realms of life together.