How can young people develop in a positive way?

Question from the Internet:

“How can the youth show support in promoting cultural peace?”

Everything depends on education, and the positive example society shows young people.

When people are blaming the youth for anything, they do not understand that we are simply the product of society. We follow the education, upbringing, values and goals we learn from elders and the general framework of our society.

Those who blame young people for who they are today should look at themselves and the society we built in previous generations.

Today we live in a completely aimless, self-consuming, hateful and ruthlessly competitive, narcissistic and hedonistic society. We made ourselves believe that life is about 100% self-service when the individual has to accumulate and consume as many pleasures and goods for oneself as possible — and if we can do it at the expense of others, it is even better.

This is what we teach in schools; this is what marketing and the overwhelming entertainment industry brainwashed us with 24/7. So what do we expect from young people? Where would they positive example of those high and mighty things, attributes we expect from them?

How could young people promote peace of anything when through human history and in our present society, they see only ruthless competition, conflicts and wars? They do not even have the classical family model to rely on!

If we want “better youth”, we all have to change; our whole society must change! We all have to recognize our inherently self-serving, egocentric, subjective and exploitative nature behind all the problems humanity has ever faced and is still facing.

Only when the adult and mature portion of society is ready to humbly change and further develop itself in order to build a positive and mutually integrated and mutually complementing human society — above and despite all the ever-growing and irrepressible differences and rejection of each other so we could build Nature-like mutual integration, then the youth will follow this positive example.