"Youth - men and women approximately 35 and younger - are typically the most energetic individuals in your community, and are full of creative, innovate ideas not yet prejudiced by bad experiences and fruitless pursuits.
Within youth lies the hope that anything is still possible if we can just dream it, and the energy and passion to pursue those dreams until their realization.
If you with to eliminate any future for your community you must be vigilant in snuffing out those hopes and dreams, that energy and passion, which are naturally bound up in those young visionary packages of youth within your town.
You must ensure that young people are not part of your councils, your chambers, your volunteer organizations, or any committee where that energy or those ideas might find life.
It is of critical importance, if you are going to kill your community, that you ensure those youth do not become engaged and active participants in community life.
If you are really skilful, their energy and ideas will die and your town will be killed.
If you are really skillful, they will leave town, taking all their energy and all those ideas with them, and there will never be the risk that the hope they embody might rise from the grace to spoil your plans for a certain future. "
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