I do not believe that the teenage wasteland can be changed. Teenagers will always be the over emotional bunch that they are know to be. Though teens of a higher sophistication may think twice before putting a gun to their heads and pulling the trigger thus permanently wiping them off the face of the planet, there will always be those who think that the best way to deal with a problem is to take a bunch of random pain killers, hanging themselves from a ceiling, or even just bluntly shooting themselves. Some may argue that sophistication or intelligence does not have anything to do with the "troubled teens" wanting to shoot themselves, I disagree. Riddle me this, what kind of person with an I.Q. over 30 would look down a barrel of a gun and pull the trigger because they feel "troubled" or because they were rejected or some other ignorant reason that makes me grit my teeth just thinking about it. The reason the "Teenage Wasteland" can not be changed is because there will always be that one person who over reacts and the bloody imbeciles who follow him or her by doing the exact same thing, these people are known as followers. There will always be followers, its just the natural order of things, there will always be leaders and thus there will always be those who follow the leaders, these being followers. Followers are known to go to extremes to please their leaders or to prove a point to those outside of their following. For example, let's say Jimmy likes a girl, lets call this girl Betty, one day Jimmy gets up the courage to ask Betty out to a movie. Well Betty says no because Betty does not feel the same way about Jimmy, well Jimmy does'nt like this so Jimmy makes the assumption that Betty doesn't understand what Jimmy feels like so he kills himself thus making Betty "understand". There are many holes in this logic, for example, how is Jimmy supposed to know he got