Embrace Change Quote by Frank Pittman

Pittman frames generational conflict not as a family tragedy but as a civic duty: the kids are supposed to be difficult. The sentence is built like a job description, and that’s the point. By calling it “each generation’s job,” he strips the argument of melodrama and gives it moral legitimacy. Questioning your parents isn’t teenage ingratitude; it’s maintenance work on a culture that would otherwise calcify.

The key pressure point is “accept on faith.” Pittman isn’t attacking parents so much as the psychological convenience of inherited beliefs. “Faith” here means unexamined default settings: the rules you follow because they came pre-installed with dinner-table rituals and school districts. The subtext is that tradition persists less because it’s correct than because it’s comfortable, and comfort is a terrible metric for truth.

He also smuggles in a boundary: the mandate isn’t to torch the past, but to “adapt” it. That verb matters. It recognizes that values are infrastructure. You don’t abolish plumbing because the house is old; you update it so it can handle new pressure. “Explore possibilities” adds an almost scientific ethos - a permission slip for experimentation - while “system of values” nods to the fact that morality isn’t a handful of slogans but an interlocking set of trade-offs.

Contextually, this reads like late-20th-century family-systems thinking: the family as a mini-society, change as inevitable, rebellion as developmental. Pittman’s quiet provocation is that the real irresponsibility isn’t dissent - it’s refusing to revise a moral system that no longer matches the world it claims to guide.