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him. Only that which affects his business makes any sense to him. Never
pondering over events, he readily accepts the status quo. He feels
concerned only when issues challenge his business. To voice his concerns,
he participates in discussion programs on TV or talks until the early hours
of the morning, arriving at no substantial solutions or conclusions. The next
day, he starts a new day the same as the previous one.
Some young people, too, suffer from the same purposelessness, and
lack the essential factors that give life meaning. The vast majority of

teenagers do not even know the leaders of their country, the political
decisions they make, the impact of these decisions on national defense,
the economy, or the educational and judiciary systems. Utterly oblivious
to major events and developments in the world, they constantly fret over
trivial and futile issues. That leaves them deprived of the skills to
comprehend the significance of many events of world history. Their
conversations are often limited to computer games, Internet chats, dating,
trivial events happening at school, cheating in exams, plans for the
weekend, clothes or football games. In magazine surveys which ask
teenagers to rank "the greatest goals worth pursuing in life", looking like
a famous model or playing the guitar like the guitarist of a famous band
come first.
Drifting along, they never think of broadening their horizons. For
instance, they do not even think about improving their speaking skills,
simply because they have not a single idea of talking to or influencing
people. In addition, they do not read. A person having a purpose and a
worldview reads to enrich himself as well as to learn about opposing
points of view. The purpose in that is to have a better understanding of
ideologies likely to challenge one's own ideas and identify their
individual weaknesses. Yet, for a person without purpose or an outlook
on the world, the existence of certain ideas will surely have no meaning.
Moreover, these people are not even aware of current ideas and other
people's worldviews. Today in many societies, people have a serious lack
of interest in reading books and newspapers while there is a great
demand for tabloids, gossip columns in newspapers and magazine