#9 - Nowadays Youth

Loud. Obnoxious. Unruly. Spiteful and anti-establishment. You know them, you hear them, and you see them loitering our streets. Of course - the teenagers. They just don’t understand the plights of their elders, how everyone had to scrounge on scraps and toil endlessly to build even a smidgen of proper civilization on the ruins of the world. All they are interested in is trash fashion, hypnotic zoggoth music and the lunatic speeches of the Glassfields gang leaders it seems! Fortunately, that is still a relatively small issue mostly located in the centres of the few biggest towns in the Realms. Wharf Town for example is rife with those unproductive youth, and no attempt to chain them down to some valuable endeavour (like working in mines or at canneries!) proven successful so far. Some would say it is surely our faults - as our safety grew, our societies found some peace in everyday lives and basic needs no longer were an issue, we grew soft and let the upbringing of our kids to not include running away from a screeching beasts made of pure madness. Maybe it is then our fault, that they detest hard work and don’t understand the sacrifices we all had to endure to give them such comforts? Alas, Mayor Whale has a great idea to send them to camp near the Sea of Acids edge so they can, as he put it ‘lick some real life’ out there. Some of they might die but it is the sacrifice we are willing to make.