What happens to the young?
What happens to us as a society? Young people are suffering from our bad work as parents.
Give me your X-ray.
Our young people are deeply alone and they don’t know it. When was the last time you saw children playing in the street?…
They are locked up at home.
We are limiting the possibility of knowledge of the environment and of themselves. No one learns alone but in the reflection of the other.
They play at school recess.
That is not valid, children have to play from the age of two and three the maximum number of hours a day for as many years as possible. We did role plays: I am the father, the policeman, the thief… that is rehearsing life, but today they are mere spectators.
Young people have social networks.
They are not on the ones we are on: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. They are in contemplative networks, being mere spectators of other people playing and having fun. What learning is there in that?
The ratio of suicides and depressions among young people does not stop rising.
And it won’t stop until we stop this disease of society, which is not trusting each other, but for that you have to know others, it’s a vicious circle. Those of us over 40 years old knew and played with the neighbors. Today young people are little watertight balls, they have no contact with anything.
lonely souls.
When we want to punish human beings, we isolate them, and that is what we are doing with our young people. In Argentina suicide is the leading cause of youth death, in the rest the first or second.
The WHO warned.
Yes, he said that the great pandemic of the 21st century would be depression, and we are not doing anything to prevent it.
Finding the meaning of life is utopian.
It is that life does not make sense, we must give it meaning. You have to know yourself, and that means knowing yourself in the reflection of others.
We need the others.
We can only be happy by feeling useful, but our youth feel useless. Parents come to me to protest their children’s grades at university, it’s ridiculous, we prevent them from being autonomous.
Too much overprotection?
We have never been safer than now. In Spain there are only 300 murders a year, we live in a very sweet moment, but we are scared, and the victims are young people.
What has to change?
Adults need someone to bang on the table and help us put our feet on the ground. Now America’s elite schools have gone back to paper and pen, to textbooks, tablets and computers have been banned.
Another fashion?
No, reading, attention, and creativity have been lost. We should not feed that dependence on cell phones, parents should talk to each other about it, what are the ampas for?
Is right.
Jaron Lanier, creator of web 2.0, is promoting the abandonment of social networks throughout the world.
Young adults live on screens, can we do something?
It is very difficult because at that age the personality and bad habits are fixed. We have passed the age of maturity and these young adults already have a world of fabricated socialization that is a fake virtualization.
Do they live in a simulation?
Yes, for them to get out of there you have to stuff them with culture. They are not in the habit of watching movies, watching movies with a phone in hand, or listening to music while chatting. You have to force them to go to the theater, concerts, and there usually happens some magic.
They continue to fill rock concerts.
But with a mobile in hand, their interaction always goes through the filter of phones. I’m going to tell you something super ugly.
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There are already many sociologists who affirm that we are going to have a lost generation, the one that goes from 18 to 25 years of age. We must focus on those who can still be saved: children and adolescents.
I’m sorry for what he says.
It’s very sad. We were educated by our parents, the parents of our friends, teachers, friends. Today our youth have grown up in glass bubbles.
The first contact with pornography in Spain is at the age of 8.
And the first sexual relations at 11. There are more and more sexual assaults and this is typical of a society in which parents do not have real communication with their children, they are educated by screens. Let’s get those damn phones off of them.
