Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Premature Judgement

I must ask how my generation can already be judged in the first place, we have not even escaped high school yet. Are we not entitled to an opprotunity to define ourselves, or is that a right that only our fathers reserve? It is my firm belief that nothing can be judged until it is completed. This is true in art, literature, music, and the greatest example of all, human life. Continents of humans believe with unflinching conviction that they will be judged by their maker once their life has ENDED. Past and current generations have no right to judge us, only future generations may determine our rank, and they may only do so once the last one of us has sucked our last breath of air. However, if current and endangedered generations choose to commit this offense of premature judgement upon us, I believe that we should take a look back at what horrors they had accomplished at our age.
I must further inquire, who is judging my generation? I will assume that these false judgements and ridiculous titles are being made by our fathers along with the cooperation of the fine writers of our time. These critics refuse to look back and analyze themselves truthfully. I say this because at eighteen their generation was either: lynching Negroes in the southern nineteen hundred fifties, dropping LSD and moving to San Francisco or killing babies in Vietnam in the ninteen hundred sixties, contracting AIDS in the ninetenn hundred seventies, or involved in the crack chrisis and nuclear arms race of the nineteen hundred eighties, or shooting up public schools in the nineteen hundred nineties. Unforunately, the last problem has bled over from "Generation X" and has terrorized us as well.
Realizing the sins of our fathers, how can we aknowledge and respect their dated opinions? The answer is simple, we can not. We can only be judged justly by our sons, years after we have faded away. Only our decisions, contributions, and errors will dictate how we are remembered.

1 comment:

kshapiro said...

Wow Nick. I'm impressed. You didnt do what everyone else did and defend yourself by proving all the unjust and claims wrong, instead you defended yourself by refusing to accept their judgement. I also fell that inside of your argument were counters against what Bauerlein was saying like that we have no knowledge of past events and you clearly prove that we in fact do.