According to John Locke we were born completely bias free, ready for the world to steer us any direction; unlimited knowledge and growth for the taking...
But lets think realistically here...
How can we be born free of bias?  We are born with disease, socioeconomic status, and relationships predetermined before we ever entered and yet... we still think we can do anything we want.

"I was born in America (insert Bush accent here), I deserve to have a house, organic food (but hold the crust), and a well paying job that I love, but doesn't cost me too much effort."

Maybe I'm about to pop some bubbles, but the reality of it is WE CANT! And maybe it's not exactly what we want to hear, but it takes ideas that Gen Me can't seem to pull out of their tanned, big, groomed butts. 

During an interview the common question is "What makes you fit for this job?"
A common answer (how appropriate) "Because I am best for the job, I am fun, and creative.  No one else does it better."  This is know as (cue Beethoven's 5th)... our over active sense of entitlement.

But the problem is WHAT makes you best fit (watch around 1:10-1:30) for the job.  If you're applying for a position as an architect you aren't going to say that you're creative.  You're going to tell them about the 58 foot replica of Sam Houston you made out of Popsicle sticks, or the adaptation to Frank Lloyd Wright's home office in Illinois you made for the mouse under your bed.  But we don't seem to HAVE those anymore.  We haven't been able to produce work worthy of being hired.  Engineers are finding themselves learning less and less in school, and the math professors are "dumbing down" the content in order for us to get grades mommy would put on the fridge.  Whatever happened to the C being the average grade?  I hear more students crying about B's than my parents ever did... their fellow pupils were celebrating the success.

Since we have chosen to the road frequently traveled (slacker) what is it we are now filling our time with?

let's preface this with a journal entry I had a while ago...

April 5 2011

I walked into a room of friends.  Three.  I continued on to hang a shirt which I had borrowed a couple days before. but as I walked into the room I received the slightest attention. I received a hi from these three and as quick as a flash... back to their program.  I continued to hang the shirt but could only imagine how silly this situation really was.  I could have been anyone, doing anything I wanted to that room; Stolen, broken, destroyed nearing anything that these three were not looking at because they were somewhere else. 

Off in the world of Plugged In,

While I was hanging that shirt I even said something to these ladies, but no answer.  They were so disconnected, so unaware that they couldn’t even hear past their headphones.  Where did this come from?

Why do we ignore? Why do we create that wall? Why cant we simply just open up to one another, and be this community of connected people, instead of a community of those who survive together.

What is so exciting on the other side of those headphones that you cannot exist with those who are actually with you?

Where did that break become a border?

This may not seem too relevant, but what those ladies were watching was MTV.  The one thing I am struggling to understand the obsession with.