The Kid's Aren't Alright.

Why are less and less people enrolling in university and higher education?
People's goals don't seem to be engineers or teachers, or doctors anymore. that is too much work. Gone are the days of people wanting to make a difference in the world.
I believe that, we are headed into what I am choosing to call an Emotional Ice Age. People have changed. Our wide eyed optimism is little more than Mister Magoo Staring over his steering wheel.
Fewer and fewer people seem to want to propel humanity, curing cancer, or working in government to change things. I don't understand people. Their goals are to make money. as much and as quickly as possible. Peace out, Self Respect, Morals, Humility and Humanity are quickly discarded in an effort to put themselves first, inn some kind of stranger, martyrdom that I don't understand. It's as though they have been abused and finally decide to start living for themselves, and stop giving everything of themselves to others.
"I'm finally going to put myself first. I'm going to do me.".
Except there was nobody taking advantage in the beginning. Merely a false sense of entitlement, and a glorious absence of sophistication.
All the things once deemed to be taboo or shocking, or just plainly inappropriate are now shoved into our faces as a sort of challenge to morals and common decency 
I used to believe that challenging someone's perception of things was a good thing. But i suppose it's only a good thing when it's being used for a good reason.
I guess the biggest factor (in my opinion) was a generation that think they were a lot more significant than they were. seemingly justified to bite the hand that feeds them.
Poor Kurt Cobain, getting to live his dream, and the dream of millions, and still being able to sleep at night knowing you're only amounting to a reason for conflict, and a fraction of the difference that you COULD have made to mental health issues/conditions/patients. AND! And having the nerve to complain about it.
I will never feel bad for someone with that much power and comfort. Especially when it's being wasted. You're happiness is you're own responsibility 
After this comes the new generation
A generation of over coddling parents, telling their children that they are special, and important, and putting them on a pedestal  terrified their going to be another Cobain, until that's all they've created. Self Indulgent, whiny children who know nothing other than how amazingly entitled they are.