THE TYRANNY OF FALSE VALUES By: Gonzalo Gonzalez

1. List down all the adjectives that describe the youth of today?

   ANS: 

• Inconstant,
• Frivolous,
• Irresponsible,
• Easygoing (or Laid-back), 
• Supercilious and cynical

Jesus said it best: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” You, our young people, are the strongest, most powerful generation that we have ever produced since our fathers were brought to these shores as slaves. You are greatly misunderstood, not only by your elders but oftentimes by your parents. We produced this generation and we cannot deny what we have produced. They are different from us. They are not hope, they are fulfillment. But when the thing that is hoped for comes along, sometimes we are not prepared for what we hoped for.

You have always hoped for a generation that would not bow down to Baal. You have always hoped for a generation that would stand up to the forces of injustice and oppression that we in former years bowed down to.

We sold out our future generations for fried chicken and a biscuit at the back door of White politicians and big money men in White society. We sold out the future of our people for positions that have high sounding names but no actual substance or power. We sold out the future of these young people so that now they have nothing to build on because, in past generations, we wanted to integrate a lunch counter, a toilet, a hotel or motel, that we could spend our money with our oppressor and close down Black hotels, Black motels, Black gas stations, Black bus companies, Black insurance companies. Integration made us want to spend our money with our oppressor rather than keep our money revolving in our own community that we might become strong.

Today's youth are embarking on a new era of things the previous generation didn't have.    Technology is moving so fast that changes the face of activities that our youth partake in. Even with all the new gadgets, games, cell phones and texting, our youth sometimes look to be a generation of the "bored". This is likely because video games, all that texting, and hanging with their clicks, they are becoming a generation with the ability to create their own bubble and their different social world. Different from what we typically see as a place where we look people in the eyes, shake hands, talk face to face and know what is right and what's wrong.

It's easy to be like ole' grandpa as you yell for the kids to "get off my lawn", but kids today are just like we were, only with cooler video games. And as the question of "lost", no way, maybe we're the ones that are lost as we let technology pass us by without embracing it. 

    2.  If we find our youth of today lacking in the fine attributes that we expect them to have, who should be blamed according to the oration? What make them so?

Ans: I have a new selection to read THE TYRANNY OF FALSE VALUES, posting to my blog spot that I’ve read half of and then moved on to the next one. Was published recently by the author Gonzalo Gonzalez  and looks like a good read for anyone concerned about to the Youth Generation today. In selection 3 that was read yesterday on The Tyranny of False Values, a well known selection, of the book, and had some great insights on the Youth Generation for today.

This is a topic THE TYRANNY OF FALSE VALUES on this blog i feel very strongly about.  My point is not that I think Youth Generation  is not bad anyway, it just does not have broad sweeping world-wide communication like the supporters would like to talk to them.  A world in which everyone can produce a new technologies individually to be self sustaining is impractical, and the “movement” in and of itself does less to feed the world than it does to make its supporters feel like they are doing something to save the environment, teach their family for more good values , or just feel good about themselves.

As Desrochers comments in his interview, those perceptions are built around a false reality that there is something inherently better about youth generation today.  It is not leader, better for the right attitudes.  He even makes the point that because of youth generations , its quite hard for the youth leader to be more safe than that from which is produced by new technologies.

We must to teach their children in a good values so that, when we go to the adulthood stages children must trained the good right by their their respective parents.

3. It is said that most often than not, what we think of others is a reflection of what we are. Do the ideas of your leader expressed by youth reflect their faults or their merits?

Ans: Yes, As i know most people can reflect their faults to their merits. In want to say this in a simple message Don’t be pushed by your problems.  Be led by your dreams.  Live the life you want to live.  Be the person you want to remember years from now.  Make decisions and act on them.  Make mistakes, fall and try again.  Even if you fall a thousand times, at least you won’t have to wonder what could have been.  At least you will know in your heart that you gave your dreams your best shot.