We're On A Runaway Train, People!

Societal chaos- did technology ruin society or was mankind on the decline and the descent was just hastened by technology?

We have more technological advancements but as a whole we’re getting dumber. We work our children harder from a younger age and use technologies in order to advance and aide in their education, but they’re getting lazier and less educated. Where are we going wrong? In kindergarten, we used to have play time and nap time and I still learned my ABC’s and how to write sentences. I wrote a play about a cat when I was 5 years old. It was by no means of Shakespearean quality nor am I saying I was a child genius, but I had the capability to write a cohesive/coherent skit on a cat, nonetheless. Now, they do away with nap time and teach them the alphabet in pre-K and it’s not really helping at all. Because by the time they get to 5th grade, they’re tired of doing work, they’re distracted by the new video game system that just came out, and they’re wondering how they’re going to con their parents into getting them the new sneakers that everyone else just got.

When I was in high school (not too long ago) I was embarrassed if I didn’t do my homework or walked in 20 minutes late for class. I dreaded being called on by the teacher and having to admit that I wasn’t prepared. Today, the kids look you in the eyes and matter of factly declare “I didn’t do it”. No embarrassment, no guilt. Where did we go wrong? Because this doesn’t just happen in high school, it happens in middle school as well. They’re not paying attention in class and then not doing their homework and not going to school at all sometimes. And if this apathetic attitude towards their education begins when they are 10 years old, what do you think it’s going to be like when they’re 16 years old?

Sometimes, I look around the hallways and panic because THEY are our future. Those kids will be in our government, on our streets, a part of society. And it scares me that society as a whole is on this giant runaway train and we’re about to go over a bridge that is about to fall apart and plummet us all to our deaths into the icy unknown waters below. I’ve always said that our society will implode—we will eventually destroy ourselves. How is it that we’ve changed so much in less than a decade? What was the pivotal moment in time when all of our IQ’s started to decrease collectively?

There are exceptions, but as a whole, how are we going to get better? Unless we all make the choice to consciously and actively become better human beings, we will forever be caught in a whirlpool with the uneducated, wastes of society who continue to procreate and put forth in the world their spawns who continue to perpetuate the uselessness their predecessors first exhibited.

It makes me want to make a little Natasha army of children who I can shape into amazing individuals to at least balance out the wastes of life that I am surrounded by. Now, in order to do this, I may have to put them in a bubble to guard them from whatever is in the air that makes us all dumber. We’ll see how that goes.