A Modern Proposal

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For the Burdens Faced from the Adolescent Problem and the Well-Being of Modern Society

(Note: I would recommend reading first Jonathan Swift's A Modern Proposal.)

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html


It is a melancholy object indeed to those who realize we are to be lead by a vulgar youth of little use otherwise to society. It is a vulgar youth who crumbles at moral decay, supporting black market drug deals, illegal alcohol consumption and the international fast food chains.

I believe it can be contracted that this population on our streets and in our homes does little more than to smolder away at the very infrastructure for which we have all so hard worked. Let us then make their existence, a lack thereof and thus contribute to a growth in society. Let us take this vulgar youth for such an advantage.

I do not mean to say that we will simply send our troubles elsewhere—over seas, into factories and sweatshops. I would suggest however that this problem might become a solution to the overseas deficit of substance of a population elsewhere.

In this notion of child labor, I think that this proposition will remove from the issue the moral dilemma at hand. No longer will it be necessary to worry about such unsure futures of these children. We may, rather, take arms against a threat to such substance that would otherwise benefit our solution.

1) On this world’s stage plays about six billion talents, and on ours, three hundred thousand. This world might be fed by its own production, yes, but what of our productions? What use do they have than to by stand the problems of the future! We work while the juveniles play about and make pretty pictures of the future. But of whose future? Of none other than for themselves! If we wish to see such as happy future from our labor, we must make them see the slings of the world!

Of other recent reason comes the ill-sent youth, who—as reported by a notable source 2)—destructed, maliciously and without right, the proud statues of their honorable community. These were once the Athena to the Parthenon. They were the prides of Dreamworks and of Joe’s
Gizzard
City. They were Shrek and the giant fiberglass chicken.

Do not let this youth take such advantage of this world we work for. Some form gangs or sell drugs on the street. Others are killed by gangs or buy drugs on the street. Some bully people, others bully statues. Feed the people! Save the statues! Eat a kid!

1 According to the
U.S. Census Bureau

2 According to CNN.com

“Teens Terrorize Local Statues.” Courttv.com. 2004 June 25. 10:04 AM. CNN. 2007 April 6. http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/25/stupid.crimes/index.html 

Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal.” The Art Bin. 2007 April 6.

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html


U.S. and World Population Clocks.” Census.org. 2006 November 22 08:18:17 AM.
U.S. Census Bureau. April 15 2006. 5:30 P.M.

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

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it was wonderful. Mr. Swift would be proud.

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I'm glad you read it and thought it was "interesting," but i hope you know that i am adding to Swift's satire. I did not intend at all to convince people to eat children.

Please though, don't use other people's blogs so you can comment and promote your own. It is bothersome to the writers. They have put a lot of thought (or so i hope) into their work, but not for the intent of its use as a billboard.

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