Post by isabelleballard on Aug 10, 2011 7:11:45 GMT -5
The world needs rebels. We need artists and dreamers.
I would like to start by warning you that I have a lot of questions. None of them are rhetorical. If our lives our scheduled down to the minute, who is ever going to have time to come up with the next great ideas? If we fall in to a pattern, then how can we ever make progress? If all young people are followers, then what will happen when the leaders are gone? Can followers become leaders? Is there some sort of on/off switch?
I’m very concerned.
I want to be able to have time to think, but as someone who wants to be successful later in life I understand that that might not be a possibility. David Brooks wrote, “I often heard at Princeton a verbal tic to be found in model young people these days: if someone is about to disagree with someone else in a group, he or she will apologize beforehand, and will couch the disagreement in the most civil, nonconfrontational terms available.” That isn’t fair! I want to be able to disagree with people. I want to be able to have arguments and unscheduled discussions. It is my right as a young person. We have just gone too far.
“Not only at Princeton but also in the rest of the country young people today are more likely to defer to and admire authority figures” It seems as if my generation has gotten into a problem that no one could have predicted. How can teenagers be too obedient? Should we be ashamed of ourselves? I am a little bit ashamed. I have to admit, I expected better from my fellow young people. This article makes us all sound like Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica.
According to David Brooks, even our clothes are too happy and obedient “Walk through any mall in America. Browse through the racks at Old Navy and Abercrombie & Fitch and the Gap. The colors are bright and chipper.” I don’t want bright and chipper. I want grunge. I want the “whatever” attitude of young people in the nineties. They were so lucky back then. If someone told them to do something they didn’t have to do it at all. If someone tells me to do something, I’m not only expected to do it, I’m expected to like it. I don’t want to like what I’m told to do. I want to roll my eyes and be done with it.
In this age of the Organization Kid, America is losing its youth. We are all a bunch of little adults walking around. As a concerned young person, I can’t let this continue. I promise to be a rebellious youth. I promise to be disrespectful sometimes. I promise to resent every adult that tells me to do something. I promise to be a young person.
I would like to start by warning you that I have a lot of questions. None of them are rhetorical. If our lives our scheduled down to the minute, who is ever going to have time to come up with the next great ideas? If we fall in to a pattern, then how can we ever make progress? If all young people are followers, then what will happen when the leaders are gone? Can followers become leaders? Is there some sort of on/off switch?
I’m very concerned.
I want to be able to have time to think, but as someone who wants to be successful later in life I understand that that might not be a possibility. David Brooks wrote, “I often heard at Princeton a verbal tic to be found in model young people these days: if someone is about to disagree with someone else in a group, he or she will apologize beforehand, and will couch the disagreement in the most civil, nonconfrontational terms available.” That isn’t fair! I want to be able to disagree with people. I want to be able to have arguments and unscheduled discussions. It is my right as a young person. We have just gone too far.
“Not only at Princeton but also in the rest of the country young people today are more likely to defer to and admire authority figures” It seems as if my generation has gotten into a problem that no one could have predicted. How can teenagers be too obedient? Should we be ashamed of ourselves? I am a little bit ashamed. I have to admit, I expected better from my fellow young people. This article makes us all sound like Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica.
According to David Brooks, even our clothes are too happy and obedient “Walk through any mall in America. Browse through the racks at Old Navy and Abercrombie & Fitch and the Gap. The colors are bright and chipper.” I don’t want bright and chipper. I want grunge. I want the “whatever” attitude of young people in the nineties. They were so lucky back then. If someone told them to do something they didn’t have to do it at all. If someone tells me to do something, I’m not only expected to do it, I’m expected to like it. I don’t want to like what I’m told to do. I want to roll my eyes and be done with it.
In this age of the Organization Kid, America is losing its youth. We are all a bunch of little adults walking around. As a concerned young person, I can’t let this continue. I promise to be a rebellious youth. I promise to be disrespectful sometimes. I promise to resent every adult that tells me to do something. I promise to be a young person.