\u201cOne for all, all for one,\u201d wrote Alexandre Dumas in The Three Musketeers<\/em>. In his later novels, Twenty Years After<\/em> and The Vicomte of Bragelonne<\/em>, he<\/strong> turned that idea into a broader manifesto of brotherhood, loyalty and civil courage<\/strong>. Today, in an age of radical individualism, it sounds almost like heresy. Some would call it an archaism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For part of today\u2019s media and political establishment, the values that shaped our parents and grandparents have also become archaic. They now seem outdated, drawn from dusty old books with yellowing pages, books whose chapters are, horror of horrors, longer than a Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The language of the books our grandparents and parents once read can indeed feel difficult, old-fashioned or unfamiliar. They contain none of the trendy words now celebrated by youth culture. The descriptions of nature in Karl May or Alfred Szklarski can run longer than an average nature podcast episode on YouTube. And Tomasz Wilmowski, with his masculine sense of responsibility and his care for Sally Allan, seems hopelessly out of place in the world of red-pill culture, incels and an indeterminate number of genders. Thankfully so.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of 2025, the World Health Organization\u2019s data were clear: 1 in 7 adolescents worldwide between the ages of 10 and 19 struggled with a mental disorder.<\/strong> One well-known psychologist recently pointed out that a new and deeply serious model of exclusion<\/strong> has appeared among young people living half in the real world and half in the virtual one. A child can now be thrown out of a Discord group or excluded from a shared online game. And suddenly, for their peers, that child no longer exists. If they are gone from the chat, they are also gone from a community that matters deeply to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Years ago, \u201cyou\u2019re too fat, you can\u2019t play with us\u201d hurt for a few hours, maybe until the next game or the next meeting. Today, when the virtual world has become a substitute for reality, that exclusion lasts. It can hurt for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Children now move through a world that is not only virtual but emotionally corrosive. Online, they see division, hatred, exclusion, snobbery and narcissism. Deeper bonds are often reduced to a like under a photo. In that reality, the books our parents and grandparents once read can become a powerful weapon, even a kind of vaccine. They speak to the imagination with unusual force. They show that friendship is the greatest strength<\/strong>, stronger than firearms, and that someone may be physically weak while remaining inwardly strong and good<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOnline Loneliness Among Children Is Growing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Winnetou and Tomek Teach More Than the Internet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n