"Perhaps the most extreme form of protest among young people is silent protest. It is the protest of those who accept nothing but reject nothing either, because they do not claim to have the criteria to reject and cannot determine precisely the object of their rejection, so they remain radically perplexed. Their negativity is total, but at the same time they are aware that they cannot express themselves without contradicting themselves.[...] Nothing is accepted and one “searches”. One searches with the awareness of one's complete disorientation: a disorientation so great that it does not even allow for its explicit expression. [...] It is the metaphysics of emptiness that is converted into the metaphysics of searching, which is increasingly fuelled by the search itself, illuminated by all the lights of a particularly broad and profound experience. And it is a metaphysics that reaches the level of a radical need, such that it invests all of today's reality and tends towards that exhaustive answer that every conscious metaphysics proposes. (from “La protesta dei giovani”, pp. 92-93)"