What can youth do?

How old are you? The answer will be stingy and rude: they don’t live that long... Although you are young, or rather young, the future of the nation, and perhaps its hopes. You are youth! What have you done in your...eleven years? Few people ask this question, and if they do, there will be no clear answer. But how many new ideas and excuses will appear in the silence of thoughts! And there is no time, and strength, and influence, and money, and just that... but there is simply no desire. Talking about the stratification of youth into groups, subcultures and asking about activities at least in these dimensions is stupid. Creating myths about a new era of youth consciousness is generally futuristic. It is more or less realistic to note the socio-material side of the issue about the capabilities of young people, but it is at least wrong to take it as a basis - after all, fairy tales happen in our lives, and everyone can make their desires come true with a little, or maybe a lot of effort. But what can youth do in a time of crisis when morality stagnates, conscience becomes impoverished and virtue is eaten away by callousness? But absolutely nothing. After all, even the most meticulous actions will be harmful when the core is rotten. My opinion may sound harsh, but here are a few paradoxical, but in my opinion, correct statements about youth, mostly in Russia (since this is a country of development) and less in Ukraine (no comments):

Project "Youth"
The head of the State Committee for Youth Affairs, Vasily Yakemenko, recently pleased the public with a number of sensational statements.

In particular, he proposed introducing special electronic passports for children from three years old, according to which it would be possible to separate talented young people from everyone else. Yakemenko’s maxims indicate both attempts to formalize youth policy in the current management system, and some oddities in its implementation.

Speaking at the coordination meeting “New approaches to the state youth policy of the Russian Federation in 2008-2009,” the official noted that young people should not be perceived as socially disabled and therefore the state should focus on young talents “who will carry out Putin’s orders.” For everyone else, we must assume that a start in life is not guaranteed.

Alexander Tarasov (journalist):

When the media recently talk to me about “youth problems,” I don’t know how to react to it: either laugh or swear. The phrase “youth problems” in today’s Russia, strictly speaking, has lost its meaning and has turned into the same ritual expression as “stability” or “doubling GDP.”

The fact is that now there are simply no young people in the country. It is unscientific to assume that people in the same age category, by virtue of this fact alone, are faced with the same problems and questions today. This is putting it mildly. We can safely say in another way: this is demagoguery.

Pavel Shcherbakov - Assistant to the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma

— Today, the Year of Youth is just words. And the further you go, the more this pathos, unfortunately, becomes like a grin

Yes. And I’m writing all this about you. Youth.