Do millennials know what's in the First Amendment?
Hi, um, you wanna me tell ya what's in, um, da First Amendment? You know, me smart enough to get into Columbia so me a-saying, um, duh, hey, dat Constitution thingie is a living organiusm and stuff like dat. Yeah.
I'd like to think that if more people had actually read and studied the Constitution, there would be fewer socialists and economic Marxists, lower taxes, and an all-around better America.
I am a firm believer that if you are going to express an opinion, that you can support your argument with more than 'Pee-Wee Herman' retorts (and he might be out of date for many of these kids). Instead I see and am confronted by the next generations who fail to interact with their peers without some form of violence or derision (that ME-First attitude). I put forth that my children had to enjoy a couple years of home schooling, where they had to show me that they could think and express themselves both literally and verbally without resorting to an outburst or violence. Also, since we moved around a bit, they had to learn about each states Constitutional Laws and History (I just hope they can pay this forward to their children!).
Thanks for letting me rant and Have a Good Day!
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
Me dino was an avid reader of Ray Bradbury during the mid-60s. I had read The Martian Chronicles years before the TV miniseries that ran during the 70s.
Also recall a Ray Bradbury Theater on TV during the late 80s~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nIqG....
The Constitution is easy to find. That is, I was lucky. My parents bought a World Book Encyclo-
pedia set (my younger brother also gave me one updated version of it a few years ago). The
Constitution is in there. Now everyone might not be so lucky to have a set like that, but there are encyclopedias in public libraries, and also, I believe, in school libraries.
For campus people, it is perfectly acceptable for them to protest, and be violent without ever knowing what they are actually doing.
After all, those at the top, always protected by armed security, are never numbered among the starving many in dire need. ..
I don't have it memorized, do you?
Far scarier, to me, is that people don't know what it means nor why it is there in the first place.
The British government trying to shut up the rebels - "What?" they will say - the amendment has nothing to do with the British, what are you talking about.
Ask if the amendment prohibits "hate speech" and most people will say, "of course it does, hate speech is bad." Even if you just read them the actual text of the amendment.
But I'm not prepared to recite the contents on demand.
They don't even know what is in their heads, let alone the 1st Amendment. "What a bunch of bubble-brained boobies" says Dr. Smith, and he was right.