Reply #7: Many kids are suffering from apathy and lack of hope

[Tsiyu]

but I know a lot of high school/college aged kids who aren't. I know dirt-poor kids and kids who are from the wealthiest families you can imagine.

They have a lot of hope, but very little regard for the methods of the older generations. They aren't fighting the old ways yet, but the next generation will step up one day soon.

I mean, look at life from their perspective: they are assailed from all sides.

We steeped them in a repressed/immature/unrealistic mire of violence and sex and then installed leaders who expect them to be celibate sheep.

On one end, folks treat children like little clones you indoctrinate and abuse "in Gawd's name" and on the other end of the spectrum, we have people who want the world to discontinue producing children altogether.

I'd say they are much more worried about the disorders in our generations than we should be about the disorders in theirs.

But this is based on my friendships and discussions with kids I know. My youngest is 12, and he could teach the world quite a bit if it would listen.