Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Future Generations

Young people have a lot to give to society, both in the present and in the future. In the present, young people are everywhere. They are on beaches and forest cleaning up the environment and also in the community helping and volunteering to make society better. They can even help out the previous generations by going to retirement homes to help out. However, it is in the future where young people play a huge role in helping move society forward. They are the next generations of doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers, business people, police, firefighters and many other things. They are the ones that may find a cure for cancer or a way to stop global warming in the future. They are the ones that help run cities and towns for the years to come. Without them, society will cease to continue or move forward. Young people learn from the mistakes that previous generations have made to prevent the same mistake from happening and to also improve society. When Old Man Warner said that young people were a "pack of crazy fools", it was just because he did not understand how the new generation thinks. He only believes in what his own generation thinks and does not understand how everything around him is changing. What he does not know is that maybe when he was a young teenager, adults used to say the same thing about him. If everybody in the world was like Old Man Warner, then the world will not progress because everyone will not change. They will do everything exactly like their ancestors so there will be no improvement to society or any aspect of life. Society is like a car and young people are the fuel that powers it to make it go forward. Like a car with no gas, a society without young people will not move forward. It will only stay in one place.

3 comments:

  1. I quite enjoyed your post, it was well thought out and written, but there is one hole in your argument. Yes, our generation is the one that will further society and keep it moving forward, but your fuel analogy is lacking one detail: someone has to remove the fuel from the ground, purify it, and then pump it into the car that is society. And while I believe that the concepts behind the lottery were perverse and outdated, you have to take the context of Mr Warner's words into consideration. He, along with everyone else in his village, saw the lottery as a way to ensure that the younger generations would continue fueling the societal car. Because he believed that the lottery was the only thing ensuring a good harvest, he believed that if the lottery stopped all of the children, the "fuel" as it were, would die.

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  2. I am surprised that so few people are actually commenting...

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  3. and you posted a comment just to say that? (I know I'm a little off track here, but just saying....)

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