[Eric]

It's not easy being young. And I think it is getting harder; don't know for sure as I don't qualify any more. When I was young, it was a more insular time. Mass immigration had yet to begin, the nightmare of nuclear holocaust was still only a bad dream, the Earth was still fairly green, and adults had yet to completely lose our trust. Lampman is right to question the role models kids are faced with today. Kids today look at the world, and they have more access to what is going on than we ever had, and what do they see: Adults screwing up. They grow up in a world which is not necessarily more violent, but more pointlessly violent. Leaders no longer lead, they send. Honour is a shabby remnant of what it used to be; it is concocted out of lies and half-truths, a mere transparent excuse for self-interest, and political convenience. This is what blares out of the boob tube everyday.

Yet it is wrong to blame government and big business for the political, spiritual, and environmentat messes we are in. The real enemy? "We have found the enemy and he is us."