Uncomfortable Wait
The lack of political and modern history teaching and the resulting ignorance and in- difference in young people of how our society works is producing a whole generation of people with curiosity and intelligence—for education has improved, though not enough. But the fly- wheels of their minds seem to have no belt con- necting them to the framework of their world —they don't know how local government, the courts, civil administration work, and they think vaguely, looking for a lead from somewhere or somebody. They fall for crazes that seem to have a purpose—not noticing that tbe march- ing is quite pointless, that the satire is not quite satire, and that they don't win anything at bingo. It brings them together and gives them a feel- ing of purpose. Astonishingly often older people say that this atmosphere is like the last days of Weimar. It is not; those days were of dreadful poverty, real despair and constant violence— seven dead was the common result of every, Sunday's Nazi-Communist fighting in Berlin. Yet the feeling that young people are waiting, not for something to happen, but for somebody to make something happen, is uncomfortable.
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