Originally Posted by Neapolitan

That's sounds like something someone would say in a John Hughes movie. I can't tell if you are serious or not, or giving a stock answer. Sorry, but I don't buy none of it. If you choose to be in a "social group" I hate to inform you but you're not asserting you're pal, you are just following the crowd. Rebelling against their parents through fashion? What does that entail? Acting snotty to mom as she takes you out to Walmart to buy you new clothes. Politics? Kids don't do their homework, I can't imagine them brushing up on politics to find the potential candidates that they might vote on in four years. When it comes to politics teenagers are like Chula, "CNN told me not to like the president, so I don't." Not much thought going on there. But just to be fair teens and young adults do watch talking heads on YouTube give their opinion on political issues. So there might be a fraction that are more political minded then others. Sorry I brought up CNN that is like scrapping the bottom of the barrel. I should stop. I don't want to sound critical in a "Why do we criticize?" thread.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.