Requiem for Lost Time: the Future of Youth

The author discussesthe damage that Marxism, in its many variegated forms and attendant values, has done to youth, especially through the destruction of innocence that this ideology converts into angry and dysfunctional cynicism. The article offers several correctives that can lead to a resurgence of innocence in healthy-minded youths. One of these is to eschew radical ideology. This will lead to a renaissance of reading and teaching classical texts that make up the Western Canon. The author provides relevant data that links Marxism to the destruction of innocence, a foundational building-block stage of the human psyche that marshals well-grounded maturity in adult life.

Pedro Blas González is Professor of Philosophy at Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida with a doctoral degree in Philosophy from DePaul University. Dr. González has published extensively on leading Spanish philosophers. His books have included Unamuno: A Lyrical Essay (Floricanto Press, 2007); Ortega’s ‘Revolt of the Masses’ and the Triumph of the New Man (Algora Publishing, 2007); Fragments: Essays in Subjectivity, Individuality and Autonomy (Algora Press, 2005); and Human Existence as Radical Reality: Ortega’s Philosophy Subjectivity (Paragon House, 2005).

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