Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.
@IndefiniteLT My third grader, interested in my own past life as a SWO (before I became a dad), has asked me about every path and job in the navy. She has firmly settled on navy nuke as her future path.
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
When I was growing up there was a ubiquitous concept of "the college fund" for your children. You were irresponsible if you didn't have one. That seems like a foreign idea now.
Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. (5-21-2026)
Concurrence: Sotomayor, Kavanaugh
SCOTUSgami! This is the 1st time this lineup has occurred in a SCOTUS opinion!