I think this is a good example of the kind of sober reflection on current events that we need to be doing–for our sake, and especially for the sake of those who must learn to live in the world we’ve made:

Listening to these voices made me think again of David Brooks’s astute comment that there are the Résumé Virtues and the Eulogy Virtues. The résumé virtues are what create success in status competitions. The eulogy virtues are what gives meaning to life in the face of the inevitability of that ultimate failure, death.

The problem is not that these teens are pushed to succeed at school; it is that when confronted by their own fear that they may fail to do so, at least at the same level as their peers or their parents, they have not been given a powerful vision of how and why their life would nonetheless be worth living.

(source: Why Are Palo Alto Kids Killing Themselves?)

“bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”