I’m afraid but the economical measures being taken won’t be enough. I believe an important change in values is needed, but it will require quite a long time. Why aren’t effort and self responsibility as well regarded as they used to be? It’s not just that the educational system has been shot and is still seriously injured, but also the kind of mainstream culture we’ve ended up having. There’s something wrong when in popular Spanish TV series the popular and admired characters are those who are just popular (trendy, rich, socially integrated and loved, for example) and those who make efforts to improve themselves or have success in studies or at work are just too often depicted as mean, unpopular, ugly, socially odd...
Individualism plus hedonism...and nothing else. The sense of community and working hard for the society and, at the mean time, making efforts to improve oneself blurred dramatically some time ago. How could we go forwards successfully overcoming this dark situation if we don’t believe a bit more in our abilities, fruitful efforts and reject passivity and that useless and hollow hedonism? Besides, optimism brings more more optimism and it can even materialize in positive real changes.
A person might be unemployed but there’s the possibility to get advantage of all possibilities of technologies, libraries....so as to learn something, continue studying and not just wait until a job appears. Time is too precious just to sit down and passively look. Unfortunate times like that are better spent analysing one’s skills and possibilities and do some kind of productive mood.
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