As students, you should search for truth. Your brain evolved to demand reality. It can best process information against an unchanging backdrop of certainty. But that's hard to find. Your world is all spin.
Actions are further and further removed from consequences.
Cause and effect are, at best, theoretical. The Dow tops ten thousand, but our lives are not enriched. We enjoy unprecedented affluence, but our souls are impoverished. Our lungs inhale the rarefied air of prosperity, but our hearts yearn for nourishment. There seem to be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction.