A New Nucleus

Facebook, Twitter,  HarryPotter, Recess, The Last Airbender, The Office, Big Bang, How I met your Mother, Friends. The mirror of the media shows us for who we really are. Forget the 1950’s familial nucleus, our generation has found something better. I mean why fight for something as hard as a family when all you have to do is pick up the phone? Forget “True Love.” It’s fleeting, it’s hard, it’s painful, and it sucks. But friendship. Now friendship is easy. Just hook in, press the speed dial, twitter up. Besides: what better way to enjoy this ever changing globe flattening, diverse information flux, then with a friend by our side?

That’s not to say we don’t want true love. Deep inside, everyone in our generation seeks “true love” in some form or another, but it seems superfluous in light of the falling sky. It becomes a luxury when everyone is going in dizzying directions. Not even marriage can bind us together anymore and at the end of every break up there is always the impossible wish of “Let’s just be friends.” Then we go home to where another friend waits with a bucket of ice cream.

Friendship: the perfect system for a single parent home. We can live our own lives, and come home and visit the local, bar, library, coffee ship, and just chill. With friends we can go save the world on our own, or even better, do it together. We can cross nations and do all manner of marvelous things and we’ll always have someone there to share it with.  They are there when we fight, when we love, when we cry, when we laugh, when we die. Forget family, the nucleus of our generation is friendship.