We may be the Internet generation, but we’re also the apathetic generation.
 

While our parents and professors won’t hesitate to say that they were more politically than students today, what’s more surprising is that students today agree. A recent Mother Jones survey found that 86% of students believe they are less active than students of the 60s and 70s. (And back then everyone smoked up so it’s amazing they had the energy.)
 

The Chronicle of Education reports on the survey’s findings:

The unscientific survey notes a few other interesting points: 49 percent of students believe Facebook is the future of activism; 57 percent believe being a vegetarian is a form of activism; and today’s undergraduate students place significantly more emphasis on the broad issue of human rights than nonstudents (40 percent to 27 percent), but are less concerned about the war in Iraq, poverty, and climate change.

So the sum total of our activism is joining Facebook groups and eating veggie burgers?
 

Sad.
 

Even sadder is our definition of human rights. If it doesn’t mean war, poverty or the environment than what rights are we actually talking about? Fighting for our right to paaartay?