Re: Message to University of Rochester Students - Incoming and Current

LetItBe — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:32:30 -0000

Both arguments have valid points here -- though I admittedly will side more with the Liberals. The creepy guy in the video has some valid points, that we are too committed to just being average people and letting our government live our lives for us. We DO need to get out there and incite change because, the creepy guy was right -- I don't want to just sit here and regret not doing something when I was young enough to do so.

There hasn't been a true world leader -- someone on level with Martin Luther King Jr. or Mother Theresa -- in a LONG time. Maybe that someone could be one of us. Wouldn't that be awesome?

Now, on some level we do trust our government -- if we didn't, it wouldn't still be here. However, that isn't to say that we need to do something so that more of us can be happy with it. It does have single-digit approval rating, and that is NOT right. So the rich white male population is okay with it, but most of us do not fit into that category.

I also agree that he made no suggestions as to how we can incite the change, but that's not necessarily that difficult. We can create Facebook groups, make posters and spread the word first around our own campus and then to our friends on others. That's small, but everything has to start out small. We can join other campaigns, such as SaveDarfur and ONE and start our own. We can petition our government to listen to us as the future movers and shakers.

True, 60s-style protest probably won't work now, God forbid we would want another Kent State. We can call our Congress -men and -women and voice our own opinions and show that the young do care about more things than their MySpace pages.

Just saying.

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Re: Message to University of Rochester Students - Incoming and Current