Every young person’s character is indelibly formed through a web of meaningful relationships with parents, peers, educators, clergy, heroes, stars, and media influencers. These relationships, and the institutions they represent, create a moral ecology around each individual that informs their beliefs and values.
Many Americans sense that the social and institutional worlds shaping our young people are unstable, if not largely corrupted. Leaders increasingly see this instability manifesting itself on college campuses, in public discourse, and in other settings. Parents sense this disruption perhaps more than anyone.
Why is this occurring? Just like many industries and social conventions, moral ecologies themselves have been disrupted by the unprecedented pace of change in modern Western society.
And as our norms and institutions have rapidly evolved, some of their character-forming features have been lost, resulting in unhealthy moral ecologies.
To address this challenge, leaders must come together with the explicit goal of reconstituting healthy moral ecologies. We serve to play a role in facilitating such efforts.
We know from history that societies change only when leaders join with like-minded leaders in a vital, dense network that provides inspiration, ideas, and mutual encouragement. That’s what the Moral Ecology Trust is all about.
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