Essay 2- Elbert and Socrates

If Elbert Hubbard and Socrates time travelled to the year 2012, they would both have different opinions. First Elbert Hubbard- I think he wouldn’t like how we do things in this year because we definitely have gone downhill from the time when he was a child. Sadly we are a lot lazier, we have a lot of technology now to do things for us, in “A Message to Garcia” they had to find information about Garcia through other people, but know if we wanted to know something about someone we could just Google it, it’s that simple for us now. Also when they wanted to find someone to do a certain job like Rowan’s, he did the job with no questions, and there are a lot of people now that would be too lazy to do the job. I think even though he wouldn’t like some of our methods that we use today, he might like some of the really hard working people who work their whole lives to get something they want for instance people who run their own business; they would have to work very hard to achieve their goal. Socrates would be different; I think he would like how people are these days, because a lot of people share their opinions, no matter how crazy. We have never stop asking  questions, we learn new things every day, there are some knew religions that people are into that show how open and confident people are when it comes to their beliefs. This generation is not afraid of asking questions, even if the answers are far out there, because we want to learn and we don’t want to give up on finding new information that will benefit all of us.