Youngsters lacking spirit
I struggle to understand the deadened spirit of some members of the younger generation members.
In my experience they are inherently dull, incapable of definitive individuality, barely alive they slope around my town in a catatonic state. Indecisive they will put their electronic signature to any cause without concern if it be fake or not.
They are insular and so desperately weak, debilitated and controlled by inanimate devices, they have no sense of reality.
Where is the strong mind, the forceful determination, the sheer energy of raw uninhibited pursuit of life in all its joys and challenges?
No action or decision is taken without consulting their device, never questioning the answer they are indoctrinated into accepting the device is infallible. Is this the place where leaders of nations are born and nurtured?
My generation is the last to have known a time when it really did take a village to rear a child, when shared poverty meant caring about strangers and friends.
I am grateful for advances in social care and acknowledge unimagined progress in innumerable ways, but I do long for a hint of boldness, of gutsy daring in the next generation.
It doesn’t have to be an explosion just a glimpse of zest and sparkle.
Vic Tonks, Dawley
