Q3 Blog 3

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country,” once said Kurt Vonnegut and I know exactly what he means. I wake up and see how little people actually enjoy thinking. I would be horrified if the people I loathe so much were to someday be running the country. And unfortunately, many of these people will have positions of power within the government and within society. Many will become racist television hosts while other will lead a plethora of people away from voting for the legalization of gay marriages. Of course I am not referring simply to my specific high school class but to my generation in general which has been dubbed as “generation slacker” for our seeming inability to have a high work ethic. Unfortunately, I must agree with this label because it pinpoints the major problem with the youth of much of the world. Laziness from thinking and from using our intellectual capacities I dare to say is potentially the biggest problem our society will face when the current youth is older. As a mostly rational member of society who strives to make the world a better place it pains me to see people say things like “I don’t like to think,” which I have heard from family members and peers on several occasions. Our society must stop placing such high value on things of such low intellectual caliber, such as the latest trends. We simply must stop focusing on “Silly Bands” or the latest Justin Bieber CD if we wish to advance as a society. However, if our society wishes to end up like the society in the movie “Idiocracy” then by all means go ahead society for you are surely on the right track! If you wish to have society get more and more idiotic continue wasting hours watching television instead of reading or wasting hours on facebook instead of bettering your physical condition through exercise! Keep texting in classes which aim to raise your knowledge and discipline your thinking! All of these things are distractions from the more important goal of the betterment of society that must be abandoned. Society has to start focusing on the bigger problems of nuclear tension between countries and global warming if it wishes to even continue existing. These problems which loom over us cannot be solved by idiots whose only wish is to go home and blindly watch whatever the latest sitcom is or intellectuals who would rather waste their gifts with frivolous affairs than to tackle these problems head on. Instead they are solved by the true visionaries of the time like Martin Luther King Jr. or Vladamir Lennin who lead revolutions in thought and action. It is solved by the progressive zeitgeist of the masses which is what decides the fate of millions in its influence over the human condition. Because of this individuals with the potential of King or Lennin must rise beyond the distractions of laziness and the masses must change the way they think about the world and its problems. I for one must continue to have at least a bit of hope in society if I wish to struggle to try fixing it.