Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this", and, "Hitler did that". But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the death camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster. http://jobsfor14yearoldsguide.info/

I think history is repeating itself. we are becoming a modern day rome. i think allot of youth doesnt see this cause they are to dwell in the apathy of who they wanna be and who they are not. we are all consumed with ideas of becoming the beings we see on tv. shit is allot worse than we chose to believe. but we can turn a blind eye and say its not that bad we dont suffer. but its the comodities we kill for that are killing this world we live in. and to a_orin who talks about war like its not real. i have many freinds in iraq and afghanistan and war is as real as it can be. and the frontlines are forever bluring just cause its not facing u in the face doesnt mean the info is gray or anything. i think we should just condemn war and say its wrong on any level. regardless of the means to go to war. especially if its for industrial purposses. the only war that should be fought is the class war.

I've thought about this-- about the fairly apathetic generation of which I think I am a part. The truth is that life's not bad in America. Why would I be protesting anything? Sure, war is horrible, we shouldn't have gone to Iraq in the first place, but now it's too late in the game [we can't rightly abandon the instability that we caused]. And in 2003, no one was really sure what the reality of the situation was. It's hard to oppose an unjust war when all of the information is so gray.

I think, though, there is a fair amount of grassroots work centered on green initiatives. More people are driving less, recycling, gardening, composting, reusing, rebuilding. It's an angry mob of young gardeners.

I think sometimes we "millennials" get a bad rap for being too self-involved and apathetic compared to our parents' generation of Vietnam protests and anti-establishment rebellion. We're different, that's for sure, but I don't think we're any less passionate. For a lot of us, we can see how these issues affect us directly. The recession means we have a hard time finding jobs; lack of health care means if we have no jobs, we can't see a doctor, etc.

It's a whole new ballgame of activism, and I think it's really interesting the way our generation uses the Internet to generate ideas and act for causes. We pass around articles and petitions and event invitations to our networks on Facebook; we follow the Iran election via Twitter; we act as citizen journalists and post videos from events on YouTube. I think we can take grassroots organizing to an even more effective level if we use all these new tools along with traditional offline activism.

What distinguishes the Millennials from their baby boomer parents? The issues facing this new generation seem oddly familiar: Climate change, conflict in the Middle East, unaffordable health care, recession, etc. So why are the 70s characterized by protests and marches and revolutionary youth action, while the 21st century seems contrastingly quiet? Perhaps if another draft was imposed, history really would start to repeat itself...