Youth between discipline and ritual

This essay highlights the importance of discipline for young people today. Discipline plays a crucial role in the formation of young people as it reduces their inflated egos. When we talk about an egocentric generation, we are automatically talking about a generation whose discipline is lacking or has been seriously damaged. Lack of discipline has serious effects, from the mental (slowing down of cognitive skills) to the physical (childhood obesity is the ideal example). The undisciplined generation has been significantly affected by the presence of the 'online' in their lives, which occupies almost all their time. Mircea Eliade argues that the solution to this problem is for young people to rediscover the sacred. It is therefore the sacred that both clarifies and disciplines young people and protects them from the dangers of an overdeveloped ego.