The youth should be more involved in Politics, the Community, and World Order.

This is my first debate and I'm still trying to figure out the strategy of directing my thoughts towards voters. Here's a shot: "My point is this: encourage reading a newspaper, or a news column online. Doesn't sound like fun, so we MUST get the youth to be able to relate to it." This is an extremely broad argument on Pros part, and quite the opposite on mine. However, I feel like despite the amount of awareness one may have on any issue, at this point we believe what has been put in front of our face. Pro is saying that after our youth has been put through the system for 12 years, they are then capable of making there own decision. How so? In Kindergarten we are taught to stand in line and obey our teachers. We are never encouraged to think outside of the box; never encouraged to simply be natural and do what we feel like doing, think what we feel like thinking. The government puts text books in our schools. Independent thinking is quite the opposite of joining a church, volunteering, joining a school club, contributing money to the poor, etc., but at this point, it is impossible to achieve. Let me explain: Pro says at the age of 15, we are starting to become mentally independent, if you will. But once again, that is because our society allows us to become independent at this time, we are allowed to drive at 15, soon to get an actual license, soon to be considered a "legal" adult, and be responsible enough to drink alcohol soon after that. It's a fact that we, as human beings, make more connections in our brain before we can walk than any other time. As soon as that phase is over, we're stuck in an institution. Pro argues that by increasing awareness, we will increase voting, and by doing so what will we achieve? We will be able to change our government, in to what? Either way we are educating our youth based on the conformity the rest of us have bought in to. "Take to the street with the same tactics of media, show them the TRUE drugs cases." I'm glad pro mentioned drugs. What are these apparently TRUE cases though? I'm assuming you are taking a negative stance against drugs because they are "cases." The most creative thoughts this world has ever seen has come from drugs and an "out of body" experience. The entire hippie sub-culture was tripping and some of the most creative and peaceful thoughts were directed at the government through music. I hate to condone the use of drugs, but I guess that is exactly what I'm doing. If drugs are used as a source of creativity and enlightenment we can escape the reality of our conformed universe and truly discover our beliefs. I'm not saying that is the only way to achieve independent thoughts either, I'm simply stating that being more involved in a systematic group of politics to achieve a better understanding of world order is not the basis for independent thinking, and therefore isn't important. Pros debate topic is, "the youth should be more involved with politics, community, and world order." I'm simply saying that it is not a necessity. The key word here is SHOULD, which implies that being more involved is the CORRECT thing to do. Who determines what is right and wrong? Our culture, not the individual, and by buying in to propaganda the institution has thrown in our face, we are teaching our youth quite the opposite of his argument.