Is the youth of today still our hope for a bright future?
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YOU GOT US ALL WONDERING, NOWADAYS, kids are refusing to learn and learning in not to work because there is other ways of getting money, from stealing to selling drugs. This had me wondering, I personally know some kids just finished graduating from university schools and they CAN NOT MAKE SIMPLY CHANGE AS AN CASHIER, UNLESS THEY HAVE A COMPUTER OR AN CACULATOR TODO THAT FOR THEM! Well im 33 year old and have 2 kids in school and now its mandatory for them to have calculators. When I was in there grades WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE, the only thing we were allowed to use  was a piece of paper or our heads to calculate a answer. Now i see this "graduate" university kids acting like this. I KNOW ITS GOING TO BE A VERY SCARY FUTURE. Those kids someday might be our president of our country, or our future doctors.  Tell you the truth I rather off being dead than alive. Even highschool kids are getting to be very scary. If they don't have there names written down on a piece of paper, Im pretty sure they will forget in how to spell it. The best way to resolve this us parents must Demand for higher school achievements or standards. and not let those standards get any lower, then they are set now! and start demanding kids todo more educational things other than letting them play a PS2 system for hours on ends so they can master the game, and it doesn't stops there, have you heard the music they listen, especially to rap, in how they are killing people and being in gangs or doing drugs or talking about sex. these rappers now have have to change there lyrics to get kids into staying in school and promote something to better our kids SO WE CAN ALL HAVE A BETTER FUTURE. IF WE CAN PULL THIS OFF our future will be better and will be more secured than it sits as now.
1002598
no, i'm not satisfied with today's lifestyle.\nthough we might have increase in technology, science, etc.\nwe have a decrease in the qualities of life. more individu suffering, more broken family, more poverty.\ni do admire the neolitics era where people live in small community, independent, they fulfill their need themselves, they have lands (since industrial revolution, many people lost their land to small powerful people), they know each other neightbour very well.\n\nbut it isn't impossible to have those life qualities for present, everthing changes and evolves. the main problem for present is global inequality. greed capitalism. consumerism. environment crises. greed. ignorance. we just have to re-establish on our perception on meaning of life, the world.
63056
Sure they can.  All it takes is willingness to do it.  Most of us believe in One All Highest Ever Present Creator.  If we can agree on that, then there is hope.
493418
Well this is actually an easy one.\nWho wants to live in the present..  and who DOES their best to live in today? - Happy People.\n\nWhen you are happy...  you want it to last and last.  If your happiest times were as a kid - you'd look back to those times and spending your time in remembrance... if you are a teenager/kid not that thrilled about 'now' - but looking forward to all the opportunities of the future - then of course the future is where your head is - and in a way that's healthy for that age - what a teenager is almost by definition - part child still (past) - and part adult (future) and in some sense, since now's the time you're planning what college to attend, apps to fill out, your major in college, etc... teenagers should be keeping one foot in the future and one in today... to plan for their future while still enjoying these days.\n\nSo plan for tomorrow - but work on these plans in the present.\nYa, that sounds right.  \n\nBut regardless of age... when you've found that love of your life... or have a lot of great friends around you, a great job you just leap out of bed for - then i'm guessing you're most likely to be living in today. The present. For these are good days... and you don't want to miss a moment of it. \n\nAnd when time starts to go by - these are the days you shall miss - but hopefully you won't keep BOTH feet in the past. maybe just one eye on the past to be sure you learn from it - \n\nAnd be grateful that you even woke up today (alot of people didn't you know) - and always remember today, the present day, is the day to get things done... not the time to remember or try to forget or simply to look forward to better days.\n\nToday is when you MAKE those better days happen.\nToday is when you put in the work.\nRight? - like getting your dreams to be reality, becoming a better human being, etc.  Those things can only be done in the present. Today is for doing my friend.\n\nAnd of course the old: wanting what you don't have theory comes into play as well. Wanting what you don't have, well that will make you look ahead - or back to the past at what you never had or had and lost.\n\nGREAT Question by the way. A big thing we all have to keep in mind. For yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is not a garauntee. But today. Today is all ours to do with it as we wish.
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Dont worry. As this world industrialzes and modernizes further the cultures that value education and knowlege will prosper. Those that do not will falter. Keep in mind we are on the cusp of two important revolutions; information sharing and energy. America and other developed countries have a lot to gain by improving the way people communicate and how we heat our houses, power our cars and travel around the world. We have only just begun to use science to improve our world. The things we will do in the future will make todays technology seem like the dark ages. So, dont be so fearful of the future. We have only just begun.
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Yes.  I do.  I think, however, that that phenomenon began years ago during 1960's.  As a child, the immediacy of television broadcast the riots in the streets of Watts and other locations, the death and destruction in Vietnam, the Soviet/Czech crisis in Czechosloviakia, the 1968 riots surrounding the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the attacks on peaceful protestors in the South by dogs, police, and water hoses.  I saw all those things and even then, as a little girl, I knew that it would have a permanent effect on our society.\n\nI am dissapointed to say that it has.  As violence has increased in our contemporary culture to immeasurable proportions, there is almost a palpable apathy among people in general.  My belief is that this general indifference has led to the degradation of our current US society.  \n\nYou see, I remember how things were--at least in the United States--before that era.  There was a blissful ignorance, of sorts.  On the whole, families may not have had very much, but they were a lot more at peace and content than now.  Now that the media glorifies gore, not only through news, but in advertisements and entertainment, that time has come and gone.  Particularly after the events of September 11th, we'll never look at things in the same way.\n\nAs one who still values life, and still prays for people when they are missing or are feared to be or known to be dead, optimistically, I would like to say that it's possible for the tides to turn.  Realistically, however, I don't know how possible it is.  I believe it was Jesse Jackson's 1988 bid for the Presidency when he coined the phrase, "Keep hope alive!"  At this point, I believe a more realistic rallying cry would be, "Ressurect hope!"
955807
"What is the future of the youth of the world."  (This one was the title of a nation-wide contest once.)\n\nAnd, for the winning answer, see my source.
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no, not yet but everyday there are advancements in possible treatments and medical experts believe that there are prevenative measures that can be taken to help a person from the possibility of getting in the future.  just like there are preventatives for diabetes and some cancers.  same thing.
48164
There really seems to be no universal moral code that applies to the younger folks today.  I'm sad to say that I think most young folks do whatever feels right for them at the moment.  There is no concern about the impact on society or on others.
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We all need to start living for the future NOT the past,You cant change the past But you can look for a better future
275186
freedom seems to be fading as the days go by.it is the high time the youth who will be future leaders started getting groomed to boost freedom thats constructieve and healthy.
704604
ask urself do u think u have a future?
856122
No.  Not at all.  Our future is created by the quality of our thinking and our ability to manifest our hopes and dreams into reality.\n\nAs we think, we believe.\n\nWhen we change our thinking to embrace our greatest visions, and change our actions and deeds to support that vision, we unlock the key to the magnificent opportunities of our future.
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Not necesssarily.  The young may, or may not, have better morals, but they tend to have more confidence in the future.  It is the middle aged person who has reached the plateau, and is perhaps seeing younger people being promoted over him, who is likely to go bad.
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We are, Honey!! Just look at me!!  Seriously, if you look at pictures of people from back in the 30's and compare them with people of today, I think they ARE getting prettier. Of course there are exceptions. There were SOME beautiful people then and there's some DAWGS now, but, to answer your question, I think they are (getting prettier)and it will most likely progress.
127759
I think we could learn from the extremists of society. They "harness" the children in religious schools. It works for them. But we are too busy with things like personal rights of teachers and students to be good at training our youth to recognize real social value.
508556
We live in hope.  Wouldn't that be funny!