Thursday, November 19, 2009
There are Inventors but there are Recorders
The significance of Old Man Warner bringing up the “young folks” is because adults have a different view in the traditions that seniors have, and with these different views they change the society in a better way. Like in “The Lottery” an old tradition in the town was having a lottery and if a people draw a black dot on a piece of paper they are stoned to death. Knowing this, the “young folks” decided that the tradition is unreasonable and they should not be part of this event. Young adults play an inventor in our society they invent new idea that keeps our society moving and striving for excellence. Many famous inventors like Thomas Edison, Charles Goodyear and Guglielmo Marconi have invented many inventions in their early adulthood. These inventions started our growth in our society; without the invention of electricity we would not have computers, or cell phones. Unlike the young adults, seniors are “old fashioned”, they like to keep old traditions and old customs therefore they slow the society down. For example most seniors are new to the world of internet; they read the newspaper for the latest news instead of searching the news on Google or Yahoo. They are blinded that our society is continuously moving instead they are still stuck in the time period where they were “once” young. However seniors do have a role in our society, they are recorders; they keep old traditions and ensure young children know their past. Also, seniors remind young adults that tradition should be followed but it is left for the adults to decide whether it should be followed or not. Overall young adults play a great role in moving the society but seniors keep traditions from decaying.
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Interesting...
ReplyDeleteWow that's nice. You condemn the older generation to be merely recorders and say that they slow down society, but realize that even as you talk about this, our government is being run by those old people you speak so poorly of.
ReplyDeleteAnd is all the technology we have really moving forward? I mean, as technology gets better, people's physical shapes get worse. Also, as technology moves on, we are increasing our already vast arsenal of methods to kill people and perform horrors on them.
Thomas Edison started his inventing career before he even hit his teens... Just a correction.
ReplyDeleteRelating to your post, has anyone else noticed that the seniors were also once the young adults? People can be both inventors and recorders in our society:)
ReplyDeleteExactly, Vivienne, and referring to your example about how seniors are new to the Internet ... keep in mind that the person who invented the Internet is now considered a " senior " in our society .. many seniors aren't new to things like these. It is just not necessary for them to use Internet like we do -- often times, older people prefer communication in person.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point put forward Vivienne! You have spotted the paradox of melodies argument!
ReplyDeleteWtf, there is no paradox. Time travels in one way. Whatever happens in one time stays in one time. For example, if you are to sent energy backwards in time, you will create infinte energy as the cycle continues. The computers that the seniors used is a mega energy consuming monster that spits out codes in dotes and dashes and occassionally emits beams of gamma rays. Basically speaking, such technology are ahead of their time.
ReplyDeleteSo safe computers that uses a less than 5 cm squared micro-chips instead of nearly a hundred mega size vaccum tubes are new to them.
ReplyDeleteInternet was invented by CERN scientists-most are not even retired yet...so yeah...
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