R.I.P. Generation X
September 29th, 2012 by Joshua Scott BeranisI’m defining my generation as anyone from about 28 to 40 years old. They are my generation because they are the ones who have watched as we grew soft and dumb. We are the Nintendo generation. We are the Cheetoes and Mountain Dew generation, and just as unfortunately, the Columbine generation, the Harry Potter generation, the decline of rock and roll generation (stretching it to say the Death of Rock and Roll generation, but I’ll admit that I was tempted to say so).
Everything has been getting mushy and fat, and whiny. Did I not just see Green Day get kicked off the stage with a one-minute warning to make way for almost mindless pop performers? Weren’t we at one point “anti-pop” and “alternative”? Wasn’t that my generation? Generation Next? Woodstock 2? Riots over the price of bottled water?
Mixed Martial Arts is our chance to take back what rightfully belongs to us. It is brutal competition which holds no political agenda, and which is already changing the way our staple American sports favorites are being played. They’re already bringing it to the gym in the NFL, and one of my favorite NFL players from the Green Bay Packers is a prime example of just what glory this combat sport is bringing to the table for us. http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-total-access/09000d5d82052996/The-MMA-way
We aren’t going to be remembered as that whimpy ghostly generation which destroyed everything beautiful that was set up for us by Generation X. We have the potential to bring everything about sports and fitness to the next level. We will be inheriting the UFC, Strikeforce, the AFC, the local gyms, the NFL, MLB, NBA, everything. I don’t doubt that alongside extreme sports in the Olympics such as Snowboarding and the like, that you will soon see the best MMA fighters from around the world competing against one another to display how our combat training stacks up on the world-wide scale.
I’m going to be pompous about this, and I really don’t care what anyone has to say in retort.
We are going to be the Mixed Martial Arts generation. The generation that saved the NFL. The Brute Force in sports generation, which made an entirely new audience fall in love with competition and drop the game console controller to stand in awe at the UFC Hall-Of-Famers, and look to their country’s best.
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September 30th, 2012 at 8:42 am
Right……..
October 1st, 2012 at 12:10 am
Wouldn’t we just be creating another money-hemorrhaging sports game that would actually do us no good other than forming another distraction for us to spend money on? You can’t make a declining economy “tap out” to lead a nation to flourish again.
October 1st, 2012 at 4:41 am
Well, you certainly won’t be remembered for the generation that supported and defended the Constitution of the United States and the Republic given to us by the Founding Fathers. I am asuming you know what I am even talking about.
October 1st, 2012 at 4:43 am
Why would my comments about the Constition and the Founding Fathers need to be passed by Moderators? Never mind. I already know the answer. Kitsap Sun.
October 1st, 2012 at 8:59 am
How can we not be remembered for the generation that supported and defended the Constitution? And did I not serve in the first initial bombing campaign on Iraqi soil in response to 9/11? I’m talking about something entirely different and regardless of politics, and have nothing but respect for those who fell in my country’s honor. Lets keep Rougheart MMA Journal politics free please. And I did say that I didn’t want my generation to be remembered as the generation that destroyed everything beautiful that Generation X set up for us.
October 1st, 2012 at 9:10 am
Not sure what you mean by “we”. If you don’t like spending money, don’t do it. And your “tap out” reference is appaling. I cringed. Thankyou for reading, but perhaps MMA is not for you. There are a lot of good things that come out of this sport. One of my favorite things about it is that I don’t have to talk directly about politics while I am writing about it. If you want to talk about the economy, an extremely boring subject which I would much rather be distracted from, there are plenty of other blogs to go to that deal with that subject. I’m quite simple.
October 1st, 2012 at 11:38 pm
And as far as your comments about the Constitution and the Founding Fathers goes, they aren’t being moderated out of some kind of anti-conservative agenda. Do you have any idea how many military personnel watch Cage Fighting? Comments get moderated because there are countless jerks out there with foul mouths and a complete lack of taste. A few colorful words, and even an F-Bomb or two in moderation are fine. You have to keep in mind however, that I really don’t care for blatant rudeness. You haven’t exactly displayed any of that, but you’re close.