What Is Corrupting Contemporary Youth in the USA?

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According to prevailing dialogues in the media, politics, and society, the everyday

life of emerging parts of contemporary youth is increasingly unstable, violent, and

corrupt. These discussions proclaims that the status-quo of youth today is marked by a

pervasive moral and social corruption which includes; drug and alcohol abuse,

uninhibited sexual lifestyle, materialism, crumbling morals and increasing

criminalization.

The youth is viewed by older generations as a self-absorbed, cantankerous and

malcontent group, contentedly hooked on cult celebrity, parent handouts, the internet,

video and computer games, and drugs. Indeed, it’s not hard to miss, in such discussion

demeaning names used to classify the youth.

Past generations believe there is a decline in morals and dominance of anti-social

behavior and materialism.

This is reflected by the rising, measures implemented against the youth and the daily

coverage by the media highlighting the threat they pose to society.

In all these deluge of grim report of the state of the youth, a look in history

provides a recurring pattern in the analysis of past generations. In fact it suggest that past

generations were censured just like contemporary youth for being morally corrupt.

If such concerns about the youth is recurring pattern, then perhaps such fears about youth

is more general a reflection of values espoused within society than a decline in morals.

Notwithstanding the above, the reason behind the corrupting of the youth is

unusually not mentioned. We need to explore the underlying component, understand the

role they play and gain some insight.

What is corruption? How does one get corrupted? What virtues does ...

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...truth originates in self or others:

When face with the truth, which reprimands it and convicts it of its faults, a venomous

hatred develops. It will make every effort to hide its faults both from itself and others,

and attack the truth.

Society can not blame the youth for the decline in morals, because it exploited

this culture. Though the media is blamed, its morally inadequacies which created the

media demand for such trivial communication.

In conclusion, society in which no critical questions are asked, where there’s

incommensurate emphasis on the marginal aspects of existence served by unsubstantive

communication is corrupt. A society in which information distortion is accommodated,

individual thinking is not demanded, and the truth is an inconvenient experience has lead

to the corrupting of the youth.

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