This article was written by a 26 year old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA. It’s a short article but definitely worth a read. I would love to see this go viral!!
“College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.”
These are the words my spouse and I bounce back and forth all the time. Praise the Lord this young lady actually sees it. I pray others will begin to see this also. Thank you, Brother, for this post!
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Good to hear from you Christian
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Last time I was on I spent time on John’s site. I really enjoy reading his blog also. I feel like when I used to watch Daniel Lappin. Be blessed brother!
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Christian, another site you would I feel be blessed by is A word in Season by BRIAN TROXEL.
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Is that here on Word Press or is that another site?
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It is here, I just typed in awordinseason WordPress in my Internet search engine and it came up. Try that if you can’t find it in WordPress.
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She’s right on
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I certainly agree with her and with you regarding her wisdom.
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=)
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Reblogged this on J-M's History Corner.
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Reblogged this on PliscaPlace.
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Thanks Kenneth for the reblog.
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Yes, USA has an entitlement problem and that is why it is the only country/empire launching multiple pre-emptive wars around the world since 1946, and convinced that it must police it to coincide with its “interest”, an interest which is totally matching its elite classes and the world view of its Silent Majority. And still, there are areas in social classes where the USA is Not considered that prosperous to them, commensurate to its potential to do the good to all its citizens.
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The USA is not perfect, but it’s better than most.
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Hi Alyssa Ahlgren, The prosperity you notice around you is because of other forms of slave work that the USA Capitalism has been subjugating other people to do its bidding. And prosperity is actually Not perceived by many classes who are literally discriminated against to enjoy the potential wealth and facilities.
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Of course there are excesses in Capitalism, I worked for a company for 35 years that pushed me aside at age 55. But the key word hear is I worked. I educated myself while working and I prospered. Classes are places people chose to reside in. Others chose to better themselves. And yes it’s hard. But it is rewarding. And no one will hand it to another in a capitalist society without hard work.
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Reblogged this on Logos Speaks.
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Dear Jerry Parks and Alyssa Ahlgren, Thank you both for your most excellent article/blog/post! It came to my attention today, that other than the LORD God, the Most High, some people ‘seem’ to have an almost “omnipresent” presence on the Internet! At first, I was ever so slightly annoyed and irritated that these people don’t seem to EVER “leave me alone”, so to speak. Perhaps you have some idea of what and whom I am speaking of. Validating our own self-worth is important, but at what cost? When we are trying to even “unconsciously” control others; then SOMETHING or SOMEONE is CONTROLLING US! God forgive me if I am being ‘overly sensitive’ here. Politics…. we ALL have our own don’t we? Let us not “encroach” upon the rights of others by exercising them. Timothy
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Good observation
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