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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside, awakes.

Inspire by: Carl Jung

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;We failed in education. We failed to teach critical, independent thinking.

Sounds dramatic? Too hopeless?

Perhaps. But I belong to Generation X — those born between the late 60s and early 80s. We grew up in the long shadow of Holocaust history , in the aftermath of colonial empires, and with the hope that Europe could rebuild on responsibility and memory.

And yet, somewhere along the way, we failed in education. We thought values like Enlightenment, humanism, and Western philosophy would always remain cornerstones of our societies. We assumed they would be transmitted almost automatically. But instead of teaching them, we reduced them to slogans and feelings. We offered moral shortcuts instead of hard questions.

We taught “racism is bad” and “colonialism is evil,” but we didn’t teach how to think critically, how to question hype, how to resist simplistic theories.

We did not prepare the next generation — Generation Z — to interrogate social media echo chambers or the seduction of easy narratives. We handed them hashtags and moral outrage instead of intellectual antibodies.

Into this vacuum came a new orthodoxy: the obsession with perpetual victimhood and the infatuation with violence dressed up as “resistance.” Suffering was turned into an identity, and brutality into a form of moral purity. Complex realities were flattened into simple binaries of good and evil, victim and oppressor.

This was not education. It was ideology, dressed up as virtue.

And now we see the result. A generation that identifies with a terrorist organisation whose program is nothing but murder. Young people who chant for Hamas in the name of “justice,” while ignoring its corruption, its violence against Jews, against women, against dissenters, against fellow Muslims. Monsters created not from knowledge, but from slogans.

The German philosopher Theodor Adorno warned that education after Auschwitz must be about critical self-reflection, not conformity. We did the opposite: we gave the next generation conformity in moral slogans, and deprived them of the tools to resist propaganda.

And I wonder if it is already too late. The poison seems too deep, too intoxicating, too woven into identity. Perhaps we will not save the masses.

But we can still reach some. We can still build small circles of clarity and honesty — places where history is taught, not hashtags, and where compassion means seeing victims without turning victimhood into a weapon.

That is not enough to erase the darkness. But it is enough to keep a flame alive.
Giving up is not an option.


It is a truth that people hold opinions all over the world that they change their behaviour for, without knowing the historical background of what they believe so ardently. Knowledge should be the key control of our actions across the board - whether it is how we treat the planet, animals or each other - not lies, assumptions or our own vanity.