"If it is true that the implosion of meaning and perspective characterises the current third age of capitalism, which has not only won against social and artistic criticism, but has won too much, then young people are the first victims. Young people live on meaning and perspective. This was said very well by the Romantics, and by Fichte in particular. The transformation of young people into a consumerist generational group is indeed a worrying historical novelty. If teachers around the world are noticing a decline in students' logical abilities, this is due to the fact that the capitalist general intellect has now reached such a level of anonymous incorporation of knowledge that there is less and less need for a family where people talk and a school where people reason. The youth issue is therefore historical and philosophical, not psychological and pedagogical. Young people must regain meaning and perspective. Then, we will immediately see them magically recover their logical, expressive and emotional abilities."