Hence, when this advice was dished out to the earlier generations, we swallowed it gladly - hook, line and sinker literally. It gave us the opportunity to pursue our careers and materialistic goals while feeling justified that we could safely ignore our social and environmental obligations since we had entrusted it to the government of the day.
It gave us the opportunity to pursue our careers and materialistic goals while feeling justified that we could safely ignore our social and environmental obligations since we had entrusted it to the government of the day.
Unchecked and unmonitored, our earlier generations stood by idly while constitutional and organisational checks and balances were torn down.
We woke up one morning and finally saw that the society that we had left unattended was engulfed by evil and corruption - to this day.
For many years, people cowered in fear, in case of reprisals, refusing to speak up while the statements of the extremists and the racists became the main fodder for the media.
The vocal minority is the one speaking on behalf of the silent majority.'
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