Question for the young folk. (21 and under)

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-02-17 06:30pm

kojikun wrote:I don't. Popularity is pointless. Pursuit of it is the pursuit of stupidity.

I've never found that being popular is stupid. It's a good and healthy thing to be well liked by your general environment. What dumb is to sacrifice important things like school or do stupid self-destructive things for the sake of popularity.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-02-17 07:42pm

I'm sick of stupid, uneducated adults making decisions for us on social and economic policies we'll have to live for for the rest of our lives.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-02-17 08:43pm

Gandalf wrote:
So for the young folk, what concerns you? Worries you? Makes you happy about the world?

Oh God, well, there is plenty.

I worry that I have too many enemies and not enough friends(they are matched at 3 vs 3)

I worry about the fact that after 6 years of being "the smart kid" I am now over my head in Calculus, and barely hanging on.

I worry that unless I master a "practical" skill such as mathematics or science(right now I am only truly good at history) I will either end up stuck in a low-paying, dead end job, or as a college professor- I want to feel like I am contributing something tangible to the world.

I worry that I won't have enough money to go to college(my mom certainly doesn't), so I worry about scholarships and my grades.

I worry that I am going to end up a loser who never went on a date in High School or a dance.

I worry that humanity will become pacified rather than expand into space.

h0rus · Post by **h0rus** » 2004-02-19 02:40pm

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Faram wrote: Hmm strange and I thought we had doctors and stuff here in Sweden, guess I must be wrong then.
Well, public universities are one thing, but I should have specifically said free higher education for the whole populace. That was actually tried in California after a fashion but didn't work--all of the Community Colleges there were free once but they couldn't keep up any standards of quality and had to revert to fees for classes, though they are still rather small.

You fancy talking out your fat ass, eh?

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-02-19 03:53pm

h0rus wrote:You fancy talking out your fat ass, eh?

Do you actually have a point, or just hurling insults around for the sake of trolling?

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-02-19 05:42pm

I worry about the state of public education (American) in general. I worry about the rising fundie movements. I worry about the rising fundie movements finding the ill-equiped-to-handle-the-real-world barely-educated mass products of 'education' quite malleable and using them for their unjust causes.

I worry about apathy, for many of the reasons everyone else already listed.

I worry about The Big One. What that is I don't know, as it could be many things, and we won't know what it is until it happens. It could be a mutant ultra-virus, a supervolcano, a comet with the Earth's name written on it, or something else entirely. I listened to a speech by Captain John Young (astronaut, Apollo 16, Commander of space shuttle Columbia's maiden voyage, among other things) and I remember him saying that it's basically an inevitability that something will happen eventually. We have to be prepared to either prevent it if we can or save ourselves from total destruction if we can't.

But how could we save ourselves if we don't give a damn and the uneducated masses lie around waiting for someone or something to save them?

Those are the big things.