Article May 18, 1968 Issue

The Davids of Today

[For young adults]

FELICE CAMARGO

Young people today have much to look forward to. Despite well-publicized alarm over their restiveness under authority and their fearless, almost careless independence, youth's basic motives are generally good. To evaluate objectively everything one has been taught and to rid oneself of all dishonest or unrealistic notions is an intelligent and healthy approach.

However, in many cases this mental housecleaning has led to a vacuum, and suddenly many young people find themselves vulnerable to a ghastly lie sweeping contemporary thought: the lie that there is no God, hence no spirituality, and that therefore man is really no more than an animal with physical impulses and reactions that constitute the only concrete evidence of his being. So, the lie concludes, the sooner one acknowledges this, the easier psychologically his life will be.

It is this reasoning that leads to inhumane irresponsibility, gives license to heightened sensuality, and prompts dishonest intellectualism.

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