I'd like to discuss in my project the two viewpoints of Millennial that we are connected but lonely and non-creative. The reason I picked these two are because I feel as though they can strongly relate to me. There has been a lot of harsh feedback from those older than me claiming my generation is "the laziest generation." I would like to say that this statement is not true. Comparing myself to my grandparents, this past September was my grandparents sixty-first wedding anniversary. I was the same age as my grandmother 61 years ago on that day and she had gotten married by then. By the year after they were married, they had their first daughter. Already my grandmother was 19 and decided not to go to college, since that wasn't the norm for girls to do. She has her high school diploma and now was a mother. I am not saying having a family is being lazy or slacking off, but my generation is waiting longer to get married and start a family, showing that we put careers first compared to what my grandparents had thought. Getting a job and into college is harder but my generation has prevailed and not just slacked off. With being compared to the older generations and how creative they were and how technology decreases our creativity. I would just to take a moment to look at those who create their own websites or video games and ask if you still think that my generation is not creative.
Inspired Writer versus Real Writer”
According to Sarah Allens' article, "The Inspired Writer vs The Real Writer", this article shows the misconceptions of being a writer in today's world. According to Allen, writers battle with the idea that creative artists love what they do the first time no matter what. The purpose of the article here shows how you can think that creators or writers have everything all figured out but how that is a misconception. Through this article Allen makes the statement that just because you are something, that doesn't mean that you love constantly doing and being that one thing. This article allows the reader to see that creativity comes from everywhere in your life.
“How Computers Change the Way We Think”
I also am using Sherry Turkle's article "How Computers Change the Way We Think." This article shows how the computer has been used more and more. It also shows how humans have gotten so abbreviated in our information. The intended audience of this article is both my generation and the older generations almost as a haha look what you are/created. While Turkle focuses on how computers have negatively impacted our lives, she neglects to show how they help. With using skype or facetime to keep in touch with friends or families miles away allows one to keep a better relationship with them rather than growing apart. Computers also add a new way to be creative. With social media sites you can create a video or a writing piece or a drawing and create friends at the same time showing that millennials are creative and connected but not lonely as they have meaningful friendships.
Millennials: We Suck and We’re Sorry
My final source would be Stephen Parkhurst's video: "Millennials: We Suck and We're Sorry." This video's purpose is to be a satirical video that makes the point of how Millennials we're born this way but were rather raised this way. Parkhurst addresses issues that never seem to come up when talking about how awful Millennials are compared to the Baby Boomers. Parkhurst's purpose is the show that all the blame is not placed on the millennials while being humorous. This is an example of a group of millennials working together on a creative endeavor and connecting over the same viewpoints and making something out of that.
The media I will be using for this project will be the social media site, Tumblr. I have worked with this site before and know how to use it well. Tumblr allows conversations to start and supports a large amount of different formats to be uploaded as well as shared. Tumblr is known for being opinionated and being very updated on whatever is going on the world. Whether it's award shows or dealing with what's going on in Ferguson, you can be updated. My stance for this project is that millennials are not non-creative and connected but lonely and that these are not true. I will use repetition in my posts, humor, description, and other sources to get my point across. With what I post I will most likely add more strategies for my argument but I don't want to get too crazy with it. I plan on using the video to help with my humor as well as emphasize the points I'm making as I agree with the points they make in the video. I also will use Turkle's article as a counter argument and show how it is good to have computers in our lives. With Allen's article, I plan on quoting that to show how creativity doesn't come easy for anyone, even those who are talented writers. (Did I do this right? I don't know.)
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