myriad of uncertainties associated with collapse of the culture we have grown to know and love. Our kids may be younger than us, but they are also newer. They are the latest model of human being, and are equipped with a whole lot of new features. Looking at the world of children is not looking backwards at our own pasts -- it's looking ahead. They are our evolutionary future.
Consider any family of immigrants to America. Who learns the language first? Who adopts the aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual values of their new host nation? The children, of course. Educators have concluded that a person's ability to incorporate new language systems -- to adapt -- is greatest until about the onset of puberty, then it drops off dramatically. As a result, we adults adapt more slowly and less completely than our kids do. Were we immigrants to a new territory, we would be
