New emblem?

So i just got an email, saying New US Emblem?

According to Winograd and Hais, our generation is described as being optimistic about politics. We are described as believing in the power of our government to change things for the better. If this is true, then this email, send to me by my sister, also a millennial, is the opposite of what Millennial Makeover is proposing. I realize this is not true for all of our generation, however, I agree with the picture. I also think that our government is changing for the better though. Maybe because Ive been influenced by the description of our generation as positive, but I really believe that things are changing in our government.

These kinds of emails are sent about the net tens of thousands of times a day, but one can pretty much bet on the fact that this was sent by someone just on the cusp of our generation, or someone just older than the oldest of our generation. Whoever came up with this picture is pretty clever, for I myself would never have thought of this.

The fact this was sent through a form of mass communications is important because without the programs available to make this sort of this, no one outside a little circle would ever see it. Because of tools such as the internet, mass amounts of people can see it, and if theyre part of my generation, they are more likely to think they can change things.

The email was sent throughout the workplace of my sister, and then forwarded to whomever they know, and so on til it fizzes out. This email perfectly describes the cynicism we have discussed in class about older generations. Take a look!