I’m not talking about 9 year olds who play video games all day or 12 year olds who are on their second generation of iPhone. I am talking about us – millennials.

I had a buddy from high school recently post a picture of Ronald Reagan in a room (seen below) with the “taliban” with the quote “These gentlemen are the moral equivalent of America’s founding fathers”. His genius hashtag was #truth #knowyourhistory – this was a clear example of how well our generation gets it.

Forget the fact that this was a meeting between the President and the CIA and the Mujahadin Fighters of Afganistan – the crew that was largely responsible for the defeat of the soviet advancements. Forget about the fact that the quote was actually from a completely different time (when Reagan was meeting with the Nigerian Freedom Fighters). Forget the fact that the taliban was not formed in 1983. And forget about the fact that it was Osama Bin Ladin who swooped in to drive this group of action oriented men towards a life of worldly mischief.

That’s all fact – maybe even what you would call “hashtag” truth.

But the bigger fact is that people post this shit. These sorts of things are posted for two reasons:

1. To drive your friends that don’t agree with you crazy because you are proving how awesomely smart you are
2. To make you feel good about how awesomely smart you are because lots of your friends will agree with you

My point: we, as young Americans have a higher calling. Let pursue tomorrow with a vengeance. Let’s see how we can best make this country grow and how we, as humans, can best effect the world around us.

Please, both Dems and Reps – stop tooting your own horn. Your horn sucks.