Teach kids that every dollar, dinar, yen, pound, euro, and gold brick they spend has a cascading effect on the lives of everyone who that money reaches, and great moments in history have occured as a result of consumer boycotts, non-violent public non-compliance and demonstrations / protests.
Teach kids that their choices regarding where and how they live are less important than why they live, who they are, and what they stand for. Principles are what define a person's character, particularly if one of the most central defining characteristics is that they do what they say they'll do, and be the person they say they'll be.
All sides of this global community in recent times has become more aggressive, with terrorists destroying things, governments declaring war on anyone suspicious including environmental activists, and activists retaliating against such impinging laws. The long established and beautiful foundation of the US government is slowly eroding away, giving large corporations more power than many totalitarian governments had before the fall of Asian communism. They are completely out of control, and many consider them to be an unstoppable force determined to consume the planet. see ref.
There are so many people who have gone directly from denial to despair, do not pass go, do not collect $200 and use it to join a union, or a regulatory commission, or a corporate sanctions committee. Go directly to your new minimum wage job, after work you can have your cigarettes, copious amounts of alcohol and other painkillers, Coca Cola, McDonalds, TV, DVD, and a hooker. In the morning you must wake up to an triple espresso with 3 sugars, 6 donuts and a blueberry muffin in the car on the way to work. You honk and scream loudly when you discover traffic is jammed again, and you wonder if you'll ever make it out of this ridiculous rat race when the boss rings you on the mobile complaining why your not at work.
I have just described over half of the daily lives of the people living in this new-age world.
And most people are completely unaware that they can choose a different lifestyle any time they want, with different circumstances, or they know but they have become accustomed to their caged environment, and have come to depend on it because it makes them feel safe and normal and needed.
The next generation must learn to be unique, individual, and intuitive. Take risks, think outside the box and then tear it up, be creative and LEAD.
Be humble, courageous and wise, and all the world can be yours.
2007-01-14 04:43:16
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answered by Bawn Nyntyn Aytetu 5
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