The 21st century has perhaps brought about the most drastic behavior change in history, and the evidence for this is the contrast between recent generations. I remember childhood and youth and compare it with today’s: the young man I was appears to be of another kind. But funny! The young man I went witnessed, living, this change. What I experienced, on the street, practically does not exist anymore, and even for me it no longer exists. However, the school I was a student of from an early age and, at fourteen or fifteen, gave me the diploma after demanding all the most extreme manifestations of licentiousness, making my blood experience adrenaline peaks that I will never feel again and training me for life, seems dead. I say this because, after a certain age, one no longer enters that school: age brings facilitators that make real learning impossible. And today’s young people, locked up, protected from the emotions and dangers of the street, grow up ignoring it. But here is the biggest contrast: at twenty, I saw myself a rascal tired of the world; at twenty, a young man today finds himself unfit for the world and sometimes—oh, tragedy!—thirsty for experience.
Contrast of Generations
