"Last" Generation

Lucy (Yeho) Hwang

Writing I

9/11/14

Prompt: "Every generation wants to be the last...we hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in the elevators..." -Chuck Plahniuk

I think that I agree with this quote. Every generation wants to contribute to the world with most of their willpower, and innovation is what drives us, motivates us today. We are too focused on taking control of the generation that we pump out unnecessary essence that ultimately pollutes the future generation. There is a sense of selfishness and competition to produce the best even if it is a fabrication of true beauty.

It's a building block, a sequence of dominos how each generation wants to be the last. We think of being number one when it comes to commercialization, consumerism, et cetera, that there is not much left to control anymore.

Today, it's hard to find originality in the world because most of the products of our generations are derivatives of the previous one's. In that, I find irony. We talk about our generation's desire to become the "last", when in truth, it's not possible to do so. Everything will become some sort of controlled fabrication of what was once before.