Sparks from Scratch

Social problem values approach
Outlining mechanism of productive activism
Don't have to target children, just appeal to existing values intelligently to reshape behavior; structure behavior to allow parents to continue natural value-instillation process on children. Trojan Horse social manipulation, where the truth is neither told nor shown, but rather appealed to as the final arbiter of which course is right. If humans will distort truth given to them, it remains only to make them find it themselves.
But how to inflict this direction onto the parents? What are they almost all capable of wanting that may be dangled ahead to make them move?
Community. Like-minded, uncompromising community. Everyone may be counted on to push upon their children any behavior or belief which inspires in them a sense of belonging; the continued prevalence of religion testifies that these values and beliefs need not be reasonable.
So maybe community, and the results of its desperate necessity, are of first importance to this.
What I want is to find a way for the human need for community to encourage inspiration-experiences in youth, and facilitate this by a mechanism based on the real physical and psychological needs of humans. This is the only path I see toward an increase in our effectiveness as a species, baring another energy revolution comparable to the fossil fuel one. Ingenuity will soon and again be our greatest resource, but only if we don't let it starve in our comfort.