Shootings, violence, murder. Headlines scroll past as if they were weather reports. What once shocked us is now just another notification, quickly drowned in noise. Every time I open a news site, I’m struck by the same thought: the world seems to have lost its moral compass.
It’s as if we’ve collectively removed the experienced voices from the room. In today’s media landscape there’s almost no space for adults who carry life experience, balance, and moral clarity. Instead, we celebrate the clown, the provocateur, the one who sells clicks by being the loudest or most absurd. The fool fills the screen, not the wise.
And without new spectacle to sell, media loses its role—like an over-reacting child screaming for a parent’s phone. We, the audience, join the outburst and the cycle repeats.
Algorithms Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves
Behind the scenes, tech companies have built the engine of this machine. Their algorithms know us inside out. Through social media they’ve learned everything: what makes us laugh, what makes us cry, which words make us pause and which images make us buy. They know how to push every button—political, emotional, or commercial. The more we react, the louder and dumber the world becomes.
It’s time to question this development seriously. Who will be the next name in the headlines? This is no longer a local issue—it’s global.
A Generation Without Guidance
Those who are most visible now shape norms and ideals—and that shapes the young. The result is chaos: youth searching for direction but seeing only mirrors of vanity and noise.
Meanwhile many parents are glued to their own phones, mentally absent while sitting beside their children. Kids watch their mother or father’s eyes locked on a screen and receive no real supervision or presence. We’re teaching them that attention can be replaced by a swipe, that relationships can be managed from a distance even at the same table.
I remember the leaders of my own youth—people who spoke truth without hesitation when I’d acted like an idiot, and I knew it. They weren’t perfect, but they were adults with authority built on experience, not volume.
Today we chase likes and followers. Influencers set the conversation, while the real role models—those with decades of lessons and scars—barely get a seat at the table.
Ageism: The Silent Filter
No one seems to want the grown-ups anymore. Ageism quietly excludes the very leaders we need—the ones who could stand up and say: enough. We talk about giving youth a voice, which is important, but dismissing experience as outdated robs society of its long view, its capacity to see consequences beyond the next quarter.
Toddlers With the Keys
We’ve handed the keys to toddlers who believe freedom means doing whatever they want without responsibility. And we’ve let them fail while we stayed silent.
It may sound old-fashioned, but I’ve become the kind of leader and mentor I once looked up to. I want to take the keys back—their experiment in freedom has failed spectacularly. What we see now is a teenage party gone off the rails. Someone has to turn on the lights, cut the music, and call an end to it.
And trust me: just because the “clowns” have competed on survival reality shows doesn’t mean they can lead when real chaos arrives. Entertainment is not endurance. Clicks are not competence.
When Experience Is Priceless
We must reclaim respect for experience, for maturity, for the slow perspective only years can bring—not as nostalgia, but as a necessary foundation for the future. Without roots there is no tree; without adults there is no civilization.
I remember the teachers, neighbors, and older colleagues who shaped me. They told the truth even when it hurt, and that made all the difference. Today many young people lack that voice—not because they don’t want it, but because we removed it, letting market logic and fear of offense replace the character-building power of honest guidance.
A Global Responsibility
This isn’t a problem one country can solve. Algorithms are global; media logic is borderless. Laws matter, but without a cultural will to value experience, nothing changes.
All generations are needed. Growing older doesn’t make you irrelevant—it makes you the keeper of a map the next generation desperately needs.
A New Kind of Leadership
We need balance: the young to dream, the elders to guide. Innovation need not exclude tradition. Technology must remain our tool, not our master.
We need leaders unafraid to speak plainly, to stand against the lure of algorithms and say: we choose another path.
The World Needs Its Parents
Perhaps it’s time to stop laughing with the clowns and start listening to the voices with something real to say. The world needs its parents—before it’s too late. Without adults in the room, without those who can say no when the market says yes, there is no future worth having.
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