Let's start by setting an example and weaning ourselves off the addiction to stupid, pointless entertainment. Let's start paying attention to things that mean something. Let's refuse to care about passing fads. Let's honor teachers, and not just with mere money. Let's utterly cease reflecting back on our stoner days with pleasant nostalgia, but talk about them as wasted time. Let's stop overemphasizing how our children feel, and begin to address how they think. Let's establish the notion that it's a young adult's job to develop to their own full potential (no one else's), and the notion that it's the job of all the adults in their lives to support that effort fully and hold them accountable.

If enough people do this, the culture will either change for the better or become irrelevant.