Society Needs At Least One Voice To Speak Up And Call For Change
Society does not
wake-up one day to poverty, hunger, and hatred, but instead these things enter
into society over time where they grow to transform a society, unless someone
stands up them. Blacks did not
wake up in the 1960’s to find out racism was beginning on specific day and
time, but instead a history of events illustrated unfair treatment of a class
of people. People did not wake up
on September 11, 2001 to realize that terrorists hated America, but instead a
tension had been building for a long time. What is needed for a society to wake up and realize change
is needed? A person that is not of
the normal day-to-day voice that can significantly speak to our hearts and
minds. This person can at times
change the direction society is heading.
Jonathan Swift is the voice of his time and says something that is not a
normal day-to-day thought or tone, but instead intended to shock society into
fixing itself. Jonathan Swift
wants what is good for his country by taking care of the young and the poor
(Swift par 33). What more basic virtue
should man want than for his country to be good and right.
Here is a link to "A Modest Proposal."
By Jonathan Swift [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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