The Progression Of Teenagers In The 1930's

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Leo Tolstoy, the very successful Russian Author of “War and Peace”, once said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”. The truth is if an environment changes, it forces its inhabitants to adapt. Teenagers throughout the eras remain consistently reliant on communication, language and the ability to read people to continue to mature into young adults but, these skills have gradually evolved from the 1930s to the 21st century due to the “progression” of our society.

During the 1930s communication was common, among the young. Compared to us current teens, 1930s teens had less adjustments since the technology was in its first stages of development. Aida Mercedes, my grandmother, said, “I remember when I …show more content…
Due to the circle of security we have built for ourselves, with machines, we have hindered the development necessary for our intellectual growth and social interaction, further severing the connection and perception of the human world. This causes us teenagers to forget our acquired knowledge of grammatical rules and formalities, and train us in laziness and incompetence (text talk). This type of talk is quickly becoming a dominant and internationally recognized language. “TTYL and SOS”, rooting itself into our culture becoming a part of or music, books and movies. Like Rihanna’s song “SOS”, or Lauren Myracles’ book “TTYL” written in instant messaging conversation style then the movie “GBF”. We have distracted ourselves to a point to which it affects our language as well as our ability to discern someone’s feelings. We lose a society, when we no longer have the ability to empathize or connect, and we become individual robots, machines that simply have a cycled purpose-; live, reproduce, and die. Our ideologies, our beliefs, our doctrines, our guides lose importance because we don’t connect with each other or learn from each
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