The Origin of Politics and Where We Can Find It Today

I chose to study the lecture of Professor Rojecki and found that it had much more with my everyday life then I could have ever imagined. The Professor points out at the beginning of his lecture that the youth of today seems to be uninvolved and uninterested in the politics of our country. To back up this idea he strategically asked a few questions that we may have had concerns about like "are you worried about having a job after school?". He quickly ties the fact that a lack in political strength is directly correlated with a lack in the job market and there was his hook and sinker.

I cannot say that I am exempt from his assumption that youth of today lack proper knowledge of what is going on in the world around us, however in the last couple of years I have tried to catch myself up to date, and can see now that not only can you tie political theories into job success/ failure in the future but also some theories that we have gone over in class. Prof. Rojecki begins by telling us that politics are directly correlated with work, because in work we are either doing the labor ourselves, or ordering other people to do so. This immediately reminded me of Tubbs model of communication along with some other theories of communication. If politics in work boil down to doing the work or, telling others to do the work, then say those who have the power to tell the others how to do the work communicate it poorly. With a poor mix of Intentional and unintentional verbal and non-verbal messages, along with the components of Tubb's model (technical interfaces, and misinterpretations) our job market based on "telling others what to do" has found itself where (Rojecki goes on to explain) it is today.

The biggest problem with all of this of course, is that instead of realizing and changing the way we are going  about doing things, our generation (i.e. "youth of today") simply sit back and hope that by the time we should be concerned with the job market, all these issues will have resolved themselves. I, again, am not exempt of this, but merely realized it as the professor went on to discuss his take on the insecurity of todays political thinking. 

He began by showing the slide based on a small chart that seemed all too familiar. There were two large bubbles, one that read "Large Government" and the other "Large Business". A lot of today's political thinkers, (the Tea Party and Occupy Wall St.) which include a lot of younger individuals like ourselves, think that the best way to eliminate our problems would be to eliminate one of the two ideals I stated above. However, just as the professor stated, what we should be looking for is a middle ground. Based on terms we have learned throughout this course, nothing seemed more fitting then the golden mean. If we as a country could take the best ideas of both worlds of business and government, we could (theoretically) find the ideal means necessary to move this country forward, rather than stay in the insecure state we are and and "hope" that is all goes away. He also went on to give examples of how the one group is trying to say things should be fixed (Tea Party). They go on to say that big government is wrong and they should eliminate it and that would save the job market. However, they seem to also want to keep Social Security, an essential part of having a big government, so without knowing it they are 1.) contradicting themselves, as well as remaining ignorant to the fact that if they opened up to the idea of a middle ground, then maybe there could be a way to keep S.S. and restore the job market. It will remain to be seen what happens to our country in the coming years, and it will heavily really on whether or not we, the youth of today, decide to stop sitting on the sidelines "waiting"and start taking action and learning.