Age/wisdom

I recall a Canada World Youth group leader saying that as a result of their experiences overseas the participants started reading the New Internationalist and the group leaders started reading the Economist. I think the naiveté of youth is fine - I'm still in favour of cheap cheap university tuition and generous funding and strong government regulation of the environment, etc - its just you also acquire these contrary experiences like seeing universities as institutions seeking corporate funding and the individual profs focusing on their pensions. And somehow you have to make sense of it. I don't think I allowed for enough self-interest or systemic absurdity in my youthful thinking.