World Events

Abstract

Young people all over the planet are asked to accept a world designed and built by previous generations. Many of the ideas and institutions of present-day society are outmoded. Certainly the young people had no part in their production. In any case, impatient youth is asked to take its cue from crabbed age and agree that "whatever is, is right."

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