Last Saturday, millions of viewers around the world watched and celebrated the marriage of Prince Harry to Megan Markle. For some it may have been a tad uncomfortable, as one tradition after another was set aside and a totally new approach embraced.

Apart from the squirming at the Preacher's sermon and some other personal choices that did not quite sit well with the congregation and some viewers, the ceremony and the happy couple blazed a new path for the future society in Britain.

Her Majesty the Queen seemed to have indulged her grandson and his bride-to-be with their every wish and allowed their personal happiness to take precedence over formalities and rules.

As we look around us, here in Malta, once so closely tied to British culture, language and rule, the youth and young families of today show that they have ditched many of the social norms and expectations of their parents and grand-parents and decided on their own personal choices as to what their ambition, their aspiration, their lifestyle and indeed their politics should be, if any at all.

The main factor of change has been the social engineering created by a large pool of students reaching University level and mixing together by interests rather than by politics or religion. In turn they influence others outside their immediate circle and become opinion-forming. Parents have kept away from opposing any choice made for love and families have broken down the barrier of blue and red.

Having travelled more and moved around widening social circles, whilst benefitting from the personal freedom achieved by the generations before them, the possibilities became accessible to a growing majority. Economic improvements also helped to etch out new paths and futures. The influx of foreign workers, unskilled and skilled, relieved one sector allowing them to advance further and created competition for the professional or trained sector.

At some point, between ambition and exams, girlfriends and parties, the young offspring of Maltese workers and entrepreneurs wanted to better themselves at any cost, even if it meant depending heavily on their parents to achieve the life they want. Nothing should be allowed to interfere with economic and personal freedom for them.

The concept that corruption is widely spread around us is something that they cannot really be bothered by. Like-wise, the pollution in the air, the loss of agricultural land and urban areas for construction is a byproduct of the necessary change needed to provide them with the goods they want.

But behind the disassociation, there lies the premise that they can be honest about their life and themselves. They seek honesty. Here, in part too, may lie the distancing between themselves and politics or politicians' immoral gain.

The conditioning of fake news that instills doubt, the double standards, the weak and boring strategy of trying to reach out to minority groups with piecemeal studies and propositions goes completely below their truth radar.

In simple terms, they seek one core message, that can uplift, that can accompany their choices and provide a vehicle that they can identify with their inner stream of consciousness. Quotas are a contradiction and where participation is not spontaneous, then it is contrived and then it is against their liberty.

The best way in this post-fake news era is to come across with a credible honesty. You either have it or you don't. Tokenism is disregarded.

It is also an age of ready-made, instant gratification. Only when something is convincing can it hope to reach the imagination of the cynical and the bored.

By now many parents and grand-parents have shifted their own opinion aside and chosen to accompany the decisions of their off-spring without protest or argument.

They realise too, that in this age of increased life-expectancy, you cannot afford to create any issues between yourself and those whom you may come to depend on later, when either your pension cannot provide adequately for your well-being or when families may break up and the dynamics change.

Therefore, opposition to projects, such as developing a new block of apartments on the family home in the village or residential areas, is weak. There is a direct interest in seeing the project happen, one that exceeds the common good.

How then will the young generation find identity and meaning in their life? Will it only be defined by material goods and does status still matter? Your status will depend on your reverse honesty.

You may seek honesty in a person but it is more about the way they communicate the self they want to project, than about behaviour. Is there consistency between their image and their life?

Identity can be earned, manufactured, bought or inherited. A person from Russia can become a Maltese citizen. A farmer's son can become a leading lawyer.

Whatever the case, the old form of socialist groupings and labels is rejected and the individualist nature of neo-conservatism appeals to new generations.

Finding who can make things work better goes hand in hand with their aspirations. If a political party can deliver at a higher level than one of simply taking, they will be respected.

Until then, it may be a case of if you can't beat them, join them.

In the long term - if that exists anymore - priority must be given to the present and not to the future. The present has now caught up with the future and they can hardly be distinguished anymore.

The lack of space around us now will be hard to change in the future. If the air and sea is polluted now how can we defend the non-existent future of species that have been wiped out?

Without credible intentions there cannot be a credible future. The lack of both in our political and social class has left many disillusioned and turned their minds away from noble, worthy commitment to a society and faith.

This is both our doing and undoing. Journalists cannot manufacture a win for a party but they can take the job away from them of explaining their motives and reaching an audience. Alternatively, they can expose their lies and false intentions.

The centre is now no longer a matter of class, but a matter of truth. The battle for freedom of expression is heating up and will not go away soon. It is a territory that is the last frontier.

Who shall uphold it? Who shall plunder it?