Abstract :
Of what do the young dream now? How do they think? What do they look to? What motivates them in the midst of those rapid changes, sudden mutations and radical transformations? I will not be simplistic by saying that things are as they should be, nor by welcoming every change that takes place. But I am not an alarmist lamenting past values, as some do. Nor am I blind to the changes so as to deny what is taking place, nor to judge whatever is new as being decadent, degenerate, or negative and nihilistic. Such a nihilistic attitude backfires. For one would ask: If there is moral decadence and cultural degeneration, how did they happen? How do we explain this decline in the midst of all those propagandists, preachers, leaders and reformers, and after all that praise and glorification of geniuses of philosophy and thought or outstanding artists and writers? How do we explain falling onto the lowest rung of that high ladder of values?
