Reaching The Generations Of Tomorrow: How Investing In Youth Will Save Earth

One of the saddest things about our world today is that too few of us believe in the capabilities of the younger generations. There is a divide in our culture that prevents successful communication between the teen/20-something generation and the 30-50something generation. Culturally, this appears to be an issue all over the world. Most of us my age(35+) look at teens and those under 30 as people who will be nothing but a detriment to society. I offer that it is merely a lack of understanding and the inability of most to look at where we have come from and the drastic differences of circumstance that we were all raised in.

When my parents were children, the racial divide was the primary issue. Things like Elvis' music and then, later, the hippie movement were the foundation of shock and awe. Things like government takeovers and NSA spying were never in the minds of their generation. Equality and sexual experimentation were rampantly on the forefront of all major news networks. Blue collar slavery and working for the man was their programming. Especially for their parents generation.

When I was a child, computers were the tools of bankers and schools were blessed to have one computer to look upon in amazement. In all its 2 bit wonderment with zero internet. Paper letters and note passing were the primary ways to flirt and, for others, bully classmates. Reagan was a hero and the government was praised by most all Americans. We took for granted that the government had our best interests in mind and that working hard for big companies was the only way our country would stay at the pinnacle of freedom and opportunity in the world. When I became a teenager, Vanilla Ice, M.C. Hammer, Nirvana, and Metallica were our expression of teenage angst. Having a pager was a luxury and very few children even had access to dial-up internet even when I graduated high school in 1996. White collar, Wall Street numbers crunchers, slick lawyers, and big pharma doctors were held on a pedestal as the apex of real "success".

Fast forward to today and racism is the least of the worries for our youth. The majority of the country has greatly varied cultural and racial demographics in schools. Technology is, by far, greatly intertwined in all aspects of our childrens' lives. From pre-school to college. Smart phones, YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter wholly encompass most every fiber of their lives. The ones lucky enough to be encouraged to get involved in music, dance, or any other artistic endeavor are the same ones who need to be focused on to stand as examples of what their peers should be involved in. They seem lost in many ways. Trying to find their voice in a sea of decades past. They are pulled between blowing a hundred grand on college and working at something they are told is the "right thing" or "normal" and, opposingly, going for their dreams and following their strengths while building the next "big thing".

Instead, things like cyber-bullying, fat shaming, "reality television", and Illuminati  controlled "music" poisons their minds. GMO's and chemically treated water and foods poison their bodies while the skies are laced with radiation and poisons for them to breath in. The purposeful dumbing down of the children has nothing to do with the choices they make and everything to do with the choices they are given. Things like spirituality, science, and art are the building blocks for our youth to take control of their lives in ways that empower them to become the adults they deserve to be.

I am the first to hate on corporations for their controlling ways, but we all would do far better to learn from them in terms of the techniques they employ to become successful. Google hasn't become the giant that they have by sitting on their hands and watching the money roll in. Their employees are rewarded for being innovative and unique in their approach to gaining consumer approval. Happy employees make for huge dividends. It's not just the money. It's the cornering of the future markets and keeping up with the technology and trends that shape our worlds' future. That is the mark of great wisdom in a growing business enterprise.

Investing in our schools in the same ways and removing the tools and techniques that prevent our children from achieving their highest potential will pay off in ways that so few of us imagine. Rather than the worlds' government's using their ill-gotten gains to control us and kill us off- If they used that wealth to build permanent infrastructure to feed, educate, clothe, house, heal, and unite the people of the world then the unreal positive abundance we would all witness and become a part of would make the most fantastic utopia imaginable seem like a huge prison compared to what a TRUE global republic of learned, wise, and advanced civilization would become.

Rewarding the rich for buying off a few geniuses to create weapons that kill and contain us will only make their fate the same as ours. Investing in the poor and the underprivileged would, inside 50 years, make this planet become the epitome of a society poised to join the universe as an interstellar alliance that anyone would be proud to call home. The abundance our "leaders" created would infinitely and exponentially imbibe and trump anything that a million years of slavery and genocide could ever produce. All it would take is a heavy dose of humility, honesty, and freedom.

Give a child a test and watch them stress into failure. Give a child support and choices and watch them prosper and innovate. Here's to investing in our youth and giving them a world they are free to mold and shape in effort to foster eons of real progress for all generations.

By Christopher Storm
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