Le progrès d'une société se mesure par le bien-être de la jeunesse

Maudit que ça va mal, dans ce cas-là !

Dans un discours récent, Henry Giroux soulignait que l'on évaluation la démocratie des sociétés selon le bien-être de ses jeunes membres et la façon dont elles voient leurs responsabilités planétaires envers les générations futures.

Si c'est vrai, notre société a de sérieux besoins de réajustements !

«I believe that any talk about the future has to begin with the issue of youth, who more than any other group, embody the projected desires, dreams, and commitment of society’s obligations to the future. This recognition echoes a classical principle of modernity in which youth both symbolized society’s responsibility to the future and offered a measure of its progress. Youth in this instance provides a moral and political referent for how we translate the future and assume a large measure of responsibility for providing the resources, social provisions, and modes of education that enable young people to work toward the promise of an inclusive, sustainable, and peaceful global democracy. Within such a project, democracy is measured by the well-being of youth, while the status of how a society imagines the promise of democracy is contingent on how it views its planetary responsibility towards future generations.

As you well know, the futures we inherit are not of our own making, but the futures we create for generations of young people who follow us arise out of our ability to imagine a better world, recognize our responsibility to others, and define the success of a society to the degree that it can address the needs of coming generations to live in a world in which the obligations of a global democracy and individual responsibility mutually inform each other. »