Our country's struggles have now passed. We are the first generation to not have a struggle. Every horror, every lie and every threat is watered down for us, bought by the industries around us, packaged and marketed in a way that is palatable. We are the blind generation, our super power might only a shady legacy. We maintain our hold because we took everything and we have two oceans to defend it.

We have been raised by broken families, we have been raped in silence. Our every act of revolution becomes a TV commercial within 14 days, our every voice of rebellion is dismissed and snuffed out by the victorious Silent Majority.

We are the children of Nixon. We are Reagan half-breeds. As in our youth, we remain sedated. Our parents rallied and screamed, shouted and fought. They fought against meaningless labor, poverty, the paradox of racism in America. They fought against war, inequality and suffering. They fought a revolution...perhaps the greatest the United States has ever known.

And they lost. They lost because they, too, were disorganized and misguided. They lost because they allowed themselves to be split into radicalism and ruled by impatience. They lost because they allowed the corporations and the government to absorb, assimilate and set a resale value on their revolution.

Thanks to that lost war, we now live in a generation where Springsteen sells his records via an 800 number, the Beatles endorse sneakers, Bowie pushes dot.coms and Martin Luther King's ghost peddles cellular phone service like a pusher at the playground. Everything sacred has been torn from us. Without studying our history, we turn a blind eye and accept this rape. Do we not speak out against it because it is shameful? Or is it a lost cause? Does it really matter when you have that nice job? That fancy car? That new house?

The upper classes have polluted the middle. Now we all revel amongst abundance while the majority suffers. We continue to be the apathetic, the manipulated. What we thought we learned, what we think we know, is smashed on the rocks of American stagnation and global divisiveness.

Our stagnation has a simple explanation. We fear change. We fear change because, 30 years ago, things got out of control. The disunited revolution that burned in this country came to a head, the images of war flowed onto our living room floor, and our political world became a sewer in flames. So we stopped. The radicals fled to the hills and the immortal corporate power made sure everything was under control... And our parents grew up. They grew up and looked back in fear and anger.

The title of "Generation X" belongs to our parents' generation -- the lost rebellion, the misguided warriors who gave up the battlefield. They voted for Nixon, they voted for Reagan, they made our minds into mush. Those who maintain their ideals, those who keep the fight strong, are crushed by that infamous Silent Majority.

So where are we now? Voices from the new revolutionary front. We are rising up and calling the freaks back to arms. We must take this last chance for a unified voice in this divided generation.

We say that information is free. We say that we will speak out against this dirty little world. Today, the fires begin again.