Almost every movement that has made the human race a bit more humane has been started or propelled by youth. Young people have not lost their dreams or compromised their moral integrity. There is magick in youth and that magick is powerful. That is why it is so feared. From the day you are born you are being conditioned to fit into a system that is thoroughly bewildering to any rationale person.
Children are the most inquisitive beasts on the planet.
If you do, you will have been assimilated by the Borg. For reasons that are mostly incomprehensible, they resent you for your idealism. Don't ever stop being yourself. If the Borg has it's way with you you will become little more than numb, mindless consumer zombies who wander through life without thinking, without caring, without loving. Concentrate all your energies chasing after all those shiny baubles and you will live a meaningless, unfulfilling life.