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Today’s Youth Too Lazy to Protest War, Study Finds
“ As long as I got an iPad, it still feels like a democracy to me.”
WASHINGTON — A recent Langley University study has found that today’s youth are simply “too lazy” to protest wars or economic injustice.
The study, commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, sought to understand the “lack of anti-war protests among today’s generation compared to the past, such as in the 1930s or the 1960s.”
Langley University in Langley, Virginia is a top social research institution, and is frequently commissioned by intelligence agencies to conduct social research.
Dr. Allen Dulles, the Edward Bernays Professor of Social Psychology at Langley, stated: “Somehow American military adventures over the last few decades have not stirred up a significant anti-war movement in the U.S. Young people today care about many causes, but beyond posting on social media most are not motivated into actual activism.”
Dr. Dulles, studied 2,000 young people aged 18 to 29 found that “only 5% were willing to protest anything — no matter how unjust. And most of them are crazy.”
“It’s CHAOS out there. There’s widespread drug abuse of legal and illegal drugs. While the Internet has allowed for the dissemination of some anti-war information, it leads to information overload in many people, and makes it hard for many people to focus. It usually doesn’t lead to the…