Twitter. Web2.0. Fashion. Writing. Poetry. CAT PARTY. Stuff no one told me. Yupster Love. Fashiontography. Trends_and_technology_timeline_2010.pdf (application/pdf Object) Yay Hooray. The PeRUN!akan. ...etc. The Generation M Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org. By Umair Haque | 8:01 AM July 8, 2009 Dear Old People Who Run the World, My generation would like to break up with you. Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it.
I think we have irreconcilable differences. You wanted big, fat, lazy “business.” We want small, responsive, micro-scale commerce. You turned politics into a dirty word. You wanted financial fundamentalism. You wanted shareholder value — built by tough-guy CEOs. You wanted an invisible hand — it became a digital hand. You wanted growth — faster. You didn’t care which communities were capsized, or which lives were sunk. You wanted to biggie size life: McMansions, Hummers, and McFood.
You wanted exurbs, sprawl, and gated anti-communities. You wanted more money, credit and leverage — to consume ravenously. You sacrificed the meaningful for the material: you sold out the very things that made us great for trivial gewgaws, trinkets, and gadgets. Love,