First of all, I'd like to offer my condolences to families affected in the horrifying France attacks recently. We live in truly disgusting times in which peoples' ideologies have become so powerful and imposing that they can no longer be conveyed by words spoken or written, but by the end of a gun, or a truck barreling through innocent civilians who wanted to enjoy France's national day, Bastille Day. France is truly a nation that has suffered too much in the past year and I sincerely hope that things improve and the nation is able to rise back from this and prosper.

In response to all this, as well as how the world has been descending into more and more madness over the course of the past few months, it’s important to ask a question to my generation, the generation credited with bringing change to the world or just shifting the world’s ideologies towards something more pure and for the lack of a better word, peaceful.

I’m not even sure what to expect from the world anymore, or if my generation even stands a chance to bring change anymore. I’m not saying that because I don’t want to, because now more than ever the world needs change, the world needs to face the fact that murder and torture and conquest is a thing that existed very very long ago and in a modern civilized society, all these things are worthless and will lead to destruction, not prosperity.

In what sense is it safe for my generation to conceive a new generation of people, a new generation that could bring change to the mistakes that my generation could have made? Forgive my cynicism, but hasn’t the world seen enough at this point that it’s safe to say that it truly may even be a risk to bring new life into this world that is so truly broken and shattered?

Ideologies and something each person is entitled to, it’s what makes us individuals and allows you to meet someone and learn something about them and connect over what you think, or discover something new over something that you may not share in your thoughts. These thoughts are separated by a person’s view of the world, their religion, their daily activities, and plenty of other things. But it’s when these ideologies become violent that they bring forth this primitive thought that conquest is the true solution to peace and that through the mass murder of innocent civilians, a uniform ideology can be achieved and that the world can be a “better place.”

It may be soon to think this, it may be tomorrow or next month that everything just gets magically solved, but these “waves of changes” people hope for from the youth, who knows how long they will really last? And all these people who try to represent something they think, what’s to say they won’t win?