Youth are the future! All too heard progressive slogan, repeated, emblazoned, mantra of modernity. But since we are as punctilious as an amanuensis monk who is copying an elaborate miniature but to whom something doesn’t quite add up: a color, maybe a tail hidden somewhere, a snake! No! Praise be to the Lord here is the satanasso!!!, we feel like thoroughly debunking this refrain that they punctually shove into our ears as the summer hit that is notoriously crap.
Youth are the future!
Youths: that is, those who are between puberty and pre-marriage working age, stretching to basically 40’years old. So young people are on the spectrum between 13 and 40. Let’s narrow it down a bit for convenience. Young people are those of working age by marriage: 18-40’years old. And we already understand that we marry late and children, if they come, come late.
So the younger person is the carrier of fertilizing energy, yes true if taken from a futurist perspective. The young person is a destroyer before he is a builder, an uprooter, an asphalt maker. But what, on average, are the youth of today? They are certainly not the daring futurists of the World War I years.
Young people are bearers of the power of the future. But do young people actually have capabilities? What maturation mechanism has been set up to make us believe that everything will be all right in that anticipated future? Why are young people carriers of the future as a future? Thank fuck, young people grow up and at some point find themselves in those 40s we were talking about. Someone will become a doctor, a virologist, an entrepreneur, a politician, a journalist…But what is the process that makes them become men and women? (yes, two genders, mother nature only makes two reproduce…so if there were more they would reproduce by spermatogenesis which is not a human reproduction system).
Why couldn’t the elderly be the future?
Who teaches the young? Teachers disauthorized by the school system toward whom pissed-off parents regurgitate their childhood frustrations? What method of teaching is disrespecting the teacher’s authority?
Are parents educating their children? They are at work! Quick, the mortgage, the car payment, the pension!…work! Is it grandparents who educate the young? Hey grandpa, I’ll make you a video on TikTok! AH that’s cool!
The elderly are the future, but the system regards them as dead weight, special waste to be dumped in the hospice. To be insulted because they can’t press the monitor in the right spot to send a whatsapp. The system declares young people the future but gives no way to educate or teach them; excluding multi-choice tests clearly.
Of course the system educates them all right! but not in the traditional sense of the word.
The system educates young people to be wandering beings unable to find their points of reference except in youtube-ticktock-instagram superstars. The Western system educates to disintegration, to the breaking down of the human reference of truth that is the family and its circle, with the flaws it brings with it (see also: Inertial reference systems). The system dismantles certainties and in their place puts empty sacks that are gradually filled with the crap that the system itself offers on the shelves of the all-you-can-eat.
The future is the elderly, the only hope of regaining a light lost in the qualunquist fog of the irrepressible flow of information that floods the intellect of anyone affected. The elderly are immune to it; the young are victims.
Octopuses are the most intelligent invertebrates, surprisingly intelligent, they have a problem, however: they do not pass on their knowledge to their offspring, they do not “teach.” Every octopus starts from 0.
Progress (progress understood as passing on knowledge from the previous generation to the next, any idea of progressivism is excluded from the word used here) is based on that teaching. Skip the transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next and we end up being octopuses, having to learn everything from scratch, with the difficulty that the system-society massively influences the little human octopus. Octopus who one day will become, at 40’s, that ungrown adult who, as soon as he becomes the vaunted future, will be the past of it.
The only hope is the elderly!