So is it possible for there to be a youth revolution? According to Doctorow, it's not possible. Regardless of all of the effort, a group of teenagers are just not able to successfully overthrow such a massive organization with the solely the help of the Internet and just with sheer masses of people. And on top of all that, the leader's motives were not appropriate for such a large challenge. However successful the Free Speech Movement may have been, that was only out of luck, because really, how many successful youth movements are there in the news? To imagine that such a young group of people could come together in such a way that they would be able to take down an organization that is so much larger than they are. However ideal it may be to believe that at such a young age that they would be able to change the mentality of so many people and potentially make a permanent impact seems a little farfetched. The fact that the Free Speech movement was so successful was just extremely lucky and only happened due to the fact that the Berkeley students in charge were extremely resourceful and too advantage to all of the help they had access to. The fact that Doctorow does not believe that there can be a successful youth was truely proven by his depiction in Little Brother.

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