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268They are optimistic and moral, but their moralsare not the morals of that society which producedthem; for the society that producedthem produced those things which they do notunderstand: a war, a terrible, cancerous growththat appears to be incurable; racial injustices,which, although erased from paper over a hundredyears ago, are now more evident thanever; and environmental problems, which, ifnot stopped, will suffocate the entire globe.Because of these they are frightened. They defytheir parents because their parents have liedto them. They have forgotten how to laugh,because there is nothing to laugh about. Theysearch for love because that may be the onlything left that can begin to touch them in apersonal way. They are a new generation. Theyare the hope of an aging world.