America's Youth - America's Future

My wife and I were helping appraise our state Destination Imagination tournament yesterday. There were hundreds of wildly imaginative and creative children presenting their solutions to challenges provided by the program. It was a lot of fun and we'll keep working with the organization for as long as we are able.

If I wasn't there I would still have been around young people yesterday. I would have gone to one of the many, many marches in America as part of the March for Life. Our youth are leading the attack on gun violence and they are making their voices heard. I am excited about their energy and commitment.

In the sixties the youth of America stood up against the war in Vietnam and the fight for civil rights here at home, but we weren't as well organized. We didn't have social media to help quickly link so many people together almost instantaneously. Hell, the Internet was just a dream of a few researchers at DARPA, and Tim Berners-Lee was years away from inventing the web. On the other hand, our children were born to this digital environment. The students of Douglas Stoneman High School are a tech savvy bunch with a cause and a message, and the means to spread that message far faster than my generation could imagine. I am proud of them and I stand with them.

Art by Jim Carrey, 2018