How does it feel to never be treated like an adult? To never be free of rules and regulations put upon you "for your own good," to have to obey and grovel before teachers, bosses, policemen - because they serve masters who have more money and power over your life than you can ever hope to achieve? To have to beg and scheme and lie for an afternoon "off" to do what you want, for once? To answer to automated bells, to be at the mercy of machines and clocks and people with half your brains and personality, to be dressed in matching uniforms like identical bags of potato chips? To be required to recite standard phrases over and over all day - to be programmed like a machine?
Every time I get home to find my mailbox filled with junk mail, every time I try to eat a quiet dinner and get interrupted by a phone call from a telemarketing company, I'm reminded that we live in a society that values sales more than privacy. Every time someone has a television on and a barrage of commericals assults us, I remember how little truth and quiet reflection matter to the merchants out to make a "killing."
Posted by Tyler at February 10, 2004 11:57 AMyou know i have noticed that an overwhelming amount of twenty-somethings(certainly not my kids or their cohorts..)have evolved with absolutely no sense of accountability. if you want these things you speak of, are you accountable for yourself first? are you respectful to others first? do you care about the consequences of your actions? there is a whole other side to what you are talking about....do you notice this in yourself or others? if so, why do you think it is so?
Posted by: deb jacobs at March 18, 2004 01:34 AM