While the old men answered in straightforward prose, the young men speak in elevated aphorisms. Their reply seems to meet every requirement of professional counselling: it repeats and redefines the question; it relates precisely to the point at hand; it is adequately presented with metaphors and rhetorical acumen. However, from a political and psychological point of view, lacking a deeper evaluation of the situation in its entirety, the counsel of the ‘young men’ must lead to disaster.
