The Pit Post | Molle
The Pit Post-MOLLE
MOLLE
used as an adjective in Italian, translates as soft, tender, weak or feeble. Often, when speaking about the resiliency of young people today, you will hear the term used: ‘I giovani di oggi sono molli.’ Young people today are soft. The undertone is clearly negative, but much worse is what that means for society. With reference to the development of character, soft implies impressionable, easily shaped, easily penetrated. It implies feeble in the face of adversity, pusillanimous in the path of danger, irresolute in defense of one’s beliefs.
A couple of questions emerge: 1. Why are young people, today, so soft? 2. What are the consequences for society?
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