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[00:05.11]Back in the good old days of stable economic expansion
[00:11.95]the 1950s and 1960s
[00:17.21]a person could choose to do something new, exciting,
[00:23.65]and creative in life but could also choose to say,
[00:30.42]"That's not for me: I am going to play it safe in life.
[00:37.26]I am going to stay in my home town
[00:41.90]and have a nice comfortable career in a salaried job.
[00:48.06]That second choice no longer exists
[00:53.53]for the vast majority of Americans.
[00:58.57]All of us are going to be creators and pioneers
[01:05.02]over the next 10 years whether we like it or not,
[01:11.10]and many of us don't like it.
[01:15.46]Just look at what the attitude surveys tell us.
[01:14.46]In the United States,three-quarters of the adults surveyed by the Harris poll
[01:22.45]and two-thirds of all high-school seniors surveyed by Scholastic magazine
[01:29.90]say they believe that the United States
[01:35.98]will be a worse place 10 years from now than it is today.
[01:42.43]No wonder young people are disaffected.
[01:47.47]No wonder they are not motivated to learn.
[01:52.72]They think the world in which they are going to spend their lives
[01:58.27]won't be a very satisfactory place.
[02:03.24]Young men,in particular,are not happy with their prospects for the future
[02:10.98]When surveyors ask U.S. female high-school students
[02:17.35]what they are going to do when they graduate,
[02:22.10]they list all kinds of roles they want to fill,
[02:27.36]like doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, civil servants,
[02:35.20]police and firemen, and fighter pilots.
[02:41.18]In short, they want to do all the things that men have always done
[02:48.56]Moreover, less than 10% of female high-school seniors
[02:55.29]expect to spend their adult lives solely
[03:00.66]as mothers and domestic managers,
[03:05.52]while nearly 90% are committed to having both a career
[03:12.18]and a marriage based on equality.
[03:16.93]By comparison, nearly half of male high-school students
[03:23.88]express their preference for a traditional, male-headed,
[03:30.72]one provider, nuclear family,
[03:35.29]where the wife stays home as mother and housewife.
[03:42.13]And when male high-school students are asked
[03:47.28]what kinds of careers they would like to have,
[03:52.03]the only two job fields that consistently receive large numbers of responses
[03:59.59]in open surveys are "professional athlete";and "media personality"
[04:07.58]A large proportion of America's young men — one third or more
[04:14.64]simply say they don't know what they're going to do as adults.
[04:21.69]If these people do not acquire some constructive vision
[04:27.45]of purpose for themselves,
[04:31.92]they are likely to be very destructive forces of resistance in society
[04:39.15]throughout their lives.We already see that.
[04:45.52]One recent estimate is that one-sixth of all fourteen
[04:52.18]to twenty-four-year-olds in America — mostly males
[04:58.34]are currently "disaffected and disconnected".
[05:03.99]They are not associated with any formal role in society,
[05:11.16]nor are they in any formal relationship with another person.
[05:18.21]These are the folks who are joining the gangs in inner cities
[05:24.30]and swelling the ranks of the rural military gangs.
[05:29.95]They see no roles for themselves in an Information Age society
[05:37.11]and they are angry about their empty future.
[05:42.08]So this is a very pregnant moment, not only for the future of America
[05:51.01]but also for all of the mature industrial economies
[05:57.45]and,ultimately for the world at large.
[06:02.28]It is an uncertain moment, a scary moment.
[06:07.35]It is the kind of moment in history when,
[06:12.79]to summarize in the words of Alfred North Whitehead,
[06:18.58]familiar patterns fade, familiar solutions fail,
[06:24.74]and familiar options disappear.
[06:29.71]Of course, the books and periodicals
[06:34.35]that are warning society about the removal of jobs,