Teens Just Don’t Care Anymore

Today, I attended my first Philosophy lecture. The class deals with the ethics and values of human beings. It is taught by the infamously eccentric Lawrence Thomas Hill. The lecture today dealt with whether or not sex can be totally emotionless.

While I did not completely understand the reason for the lecture, I came across a disturbing fact. That being that only 4 students considered themselves theist. This number is out of 400 total students. This is only one percent of teens. While I did not think that most teens believed in god, I did not think that the number was this low.

I do not think that this is purely a religious problem. I believe that many teens are just not interested in things that are really important to their futures and their quality of life. Many people I know do not care about the upcoming election at all. I was forced to turn off CNN’s coverage of the DNC yesterday in order to watch a repeat of Seinfeld. My friend will not vote because he “doesn’t really care about who wins the election.” My girlfriend wants to vote for McCain, because “Bill Clinton is ugly.”

These thoughts are mind boggling. I do not understand how people can have such little concern about their future’s and their country! The work ethic of teens is almost non-existent! I do not know how this has happened.

I hope that this way of thinking changes very soon and parents are able to distill better values in their children, so that the future of this country  can be better for everyone.

Olympic Experts

Well it seems as if it is time once again to watch countries from around the world compete in the Olympic games. I believe that the Olympics are a great event and help to bring the world closer together. Athletes are able to put their differences aside for a couple weeks and compete for the pure love of the sports in which they compete.

Back home in America, millions will watch with the same enthusiasm as they did when Tiger Woods limped up the 18th of Torry Pines in the US open earlier this year. And after the events are over, they will cease to watch the sport entirely.

While I understand that it may be difficult to find a good 3m diving competition or Judo match throughout the year, I am annoyed at how people immediately become experts on the sport during the Olympics. They try to explain rules to others, when they only understand a fraction of them their selves. I must admit however, that I am one of these people. I am a golfer myself, so I do know most of the rules and watch more than one tournament a year. However, with events such as the Olympics, Worlds Cup, and X-Games, I immediately turn into the expert. I find the main sport to be curling in the winter Olympics. I can’t stop the transformation, even though I know that it is happening. I always say that I will continue to watch the sport even after the event is over, but this never happens.

While I may not how I or others act during these sporting events, I do believe that there are many positive outcomes. Mainly, we are opened up to many sports that we would not frequently watch. This allows us to view other cultures and enjoy the same sport that people halfway around the world enjoy all year long.

So in the end i must tip my hat and give kudos to those pseudo Handball or Floor Exercise experts. Because although you may not know it, you are helping to bring human kind one step closer, even if it is only for two weeks.