Journal Questions

Journal 2: Each generation is different than the one before it but sometimes that difference is not in the new generation being smarter. Generations before us tell us we are smarter because we are learning from the older generations mistakes, but the younger generation has to be willing to learn and listen. This being told to younger generations they immediately believe their smarter and do not have to listen or learn how to be smarter they just naturally are. This is why I think the younger generation might be the same intelligence or less smart then the generation before them. Learning is not just given to someone you have to be willing to listen to the mistakes made in the past and fix your decisions so you do not make the same. This quote can only be true if the younger generation is willing to learn from the mistakes of the older generation and if that is not achieved then the younger generation is no more intelligent then the one before it. This goes the reverse way as well the older generation has to figure out how to teach the younger generation in order for the younger generation to become more intelligent.

Journal 6: The past does control the future in the sense of choices one has made or a county has made, but also the present controls the past because people can manipulate what actually happened in the past. Peoples decessions in the past do affect the future because people have hopefully learned from these decessions and adjusted the problems within them. This quote is like a circle where the present will always control the past until the present is the past. If the present controls the past and the past controls the future then the present is the major affecter on the accuracy of the information given about the past. The present could get rid of important history and then no one would learn from mistakes and make them again. This is a cycle of whoever is in control right now in the present is in control of what future generations will know about the past and these future generations could make a bad decision that would have not happened if the present could not manipulate information.

Journal 7: "The only way war can end is by losing it," was said by George Orwell and he is completely correct. Physical war can only end by losing it on both sides because even if war is won the people that were lost in the war will never come back making war a lose-lose situation. If a person just surrenders and is succumbed then that person might have not lost men but is losing a country and their way of life. This results in a moral battle because everything a person knows about a government is changed and has to start a new way of living. Either way you lose is bad and proving a point that war is a terrible thing and that peace between all nations is the only thing a person can hope for. Orwell was very right by this quote and during the time he said it wars were happening all the time right around him. So he could see first hand that there was no winning in war all it was is a loss.