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Transcript: Reverend Dr. Michael James Oleksa, Ph.D.

Native programs that address epidemics of anti-social and self-destructive behaviors

[Oleksa:]
It’s the antisocial generation. They act this out in gestures of domestic violence, or vandalism, and/or self-destructive behavior. We’ve always lived in a dangerous inclement natural environment, but we have far too many accidents that are the result of simply negligent or risky, almost “It doesn’t matter. I don’t matter. Nothing matters.” A kind of nihilism that the next generation slides almost imperceptibly right into. So we have an outbreak, even an epidemic, of antisocial and self-destructive behaviors, and the highest teen suicide rates perhaps in the country.