Time For Outrage Analysis

When 9/11 occurred the world reacted in a split second to the social matter, would our young generation react the same? Today’s younger society is seemed to be less interactive with social matters, than the olden day society. An author by the name of Stephane Hessel states that our young society is not doing anything about our social issues that are rising and we are neglecting the important matters. In, Time for Outrage! his argument is all about: indifference, outrage, unawareness, and non-violent matters that should be taken action towards. Hessel believes that today’s young society is lazy and does not take action towards important matters that make a huge impact on society. Well, that is true our young society must take action towards …show more content…
Learning the meaning of outrage is a key component to making a difference; a strong feeling of anger. To create outrage, something has to persuade the young American people to support and join together to make a change. In order for outrage to happen the young society needs to want to make a change and not be so self absorbed. Outrage is important due to the fact that it gives the person’s motivation to want to make a change, and do something towards it. As Hessel stated, “We, the veterans of the Resistance movements and fighting forces of Free France, call for the younger generations to revive and carry forward the tradition of the Resistance and its ideas.” Hessel basically calls us all out to take action towards our lousy so called a united generation. To make changes, you have to be outraged in order to be outraged you have to have a strong feeling towards something that makes you want to take action. In order to make a difference with today’s young society, it has to hit home. Our mentality is if we have clothes on our back, food in ours stomaches, a roof mover our heads, and our materialistic items will be fine; although as soon as a social issue takes one of those things away we take action towards it. Also many times we are blind to these social issues because we do not often hear about them, or are …show more content…
Violence to non-violence can make a huge impact on social matters, because it limits the amount of chaos that can occur. The smallest things like making a small group to protest on a social issue, or even making posters to help make a difference, are very useful examples of non-violence. Hessel’s argument towards non-violence is, “It is along this path that humanity will clear its next hurdle… or say that “violence doesn’t work” is much more important than to know whether or not to condemn those who have recourse to it. In this notion of “working,” of effectiveness, lies a nonviolent hope.” Hessel believes that the past shows how violence solved nearly nothing and created a merely violent world, therefore it is our turn to show our non-violent actions and solutions to making a difference. The younger generation shows their non-violent side through volunteer work, and creating small organization to make changes in their community. It may not seem as powerful as what the older generation was used to, but it is a step forward. Even though nonviolence is a great solution, violence may still occur, because it takes one person to make chaos. It’s okay for violence to happen when its make your words be known, for example the civil rights movement and the women’s suffrage movement. They were violent movements that made a huge difference,