h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is an interlude because I have a rather large journal entry I would like to write but am putting it off and substituting this little rant for it. Alot of things have happened in the past two weeks, harbingers of adulthood in fact -which is much worse than doom, you know-, and I would like to write about them as soon as I find a period of time where I'm not very sleepy and my guitar is not calling me to practice playing it. Then there's my new accordian too. Thank God I've stopped playing video games.
Anyways, I've returned from my trip with Brian(a friend of mine, naturally, I wouldn't spend a week with him if he was my mortal enemy) to Ocean City. I'll have more on that in my big big journal entry.
What I want to rant about here is the unassumingly nefarious trend in, at least American media, to refer to the youth of today as "resources." I'm surprised that the doctors and motherly advice authors that started this trend would use a word so devoid of spirit and vitality, effectively grouping us with wonderful resources such as timber, crude oil, and livestock. Are our parents that utilitarian? A newspaper article written in my local paper, the Capital (http://www.hometownannapolis.com I think is it's website), about a book by some mother or psychologist on how to raise pre-teens properly, tells parents that they should treat their children "as resources, not problems." I can agree with the problem side, but to treat us as resources? Let's look at examples of how human beings treat resources on this planet. Oh, rainforest, that's a resource, right? Chop it down!