Posted by
Chris on Friday, November 07, 2008 1:20:05 PM
I hear a fair amount of talk about how young people are different than previous generations, how they process information diferently, how they are more suspicious of hypocrisy. There's a lot of truth in this, but as one who spends a fair amount of time working with college students, I advise my fellow conservatives to remember this: don't let the sociologists carry you away. Young people are not a different species. The human condition has not been altered, only the external circumstances and the learned modes of communication. Act accordingly. Don't pander to a perceived trend for shallow short-term gains when you need to get in to the real core of the person. There is no substitute for eternal truth expressed from love. And however much the heart is key, we cannot neglect the mind. If they aren't able to think out why they believe the truth, the truth is not likely to stay with them.